[Bf-funboard] Adding a RAW Photo Editor to Blender

[luke etyrnal]

The camera tracking feature is NOT about making films.  It's about
calculating TRACKING for 3D geometry/camera so that compositing etc. can be
accomplished.  The sequencer in Blender is woefully under-powered with
pretty weak tools for that purpose.  Some of the tools don't even work
predictably.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:11 AM luke etyrnal <luke.etyrnal at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Knapp ,  "Blender is made for making films " .  Have you been around
> since the beginning of Blender?  It was designed for 3D modeling,
> rendering, animating.  It has a physics and game engine too.  It's original
> PRIMARY function was the 3D modeling, animation, & rendering.  90% of the
> tools are aimed at that.  All of the film editing features are BARE MINIMUM
> tools.   And when you talk to the blender devs in IRC, asking them to
> improve the video editing tools, they suggest that if you need video
> editing tools that are more robust, you should use a more robust video
> editor -- i.e.  they don't consider it to be a video editing suite.
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:11 AM Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> David McSween, I feel that you are wrong on this point. Blender is made for
> making films. We have all sorts of functions to simulate different types of
> film and cameras. We also have a big feature to do camera tracking. We also
> have compositing that is often used to do color correction to films. I
> think and feel that having a raw processor is a natural extension of all
> the other tools. Really we are just talking about reading a few more file
> types and maybe a few more nodes for the compositor. It might be a good
> project or two for the upcoming Google summer of code or a newbie dev.
>
> Douglas E Knapp
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:31 AM, David McSween <3pointedit at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I too went thru this phase after installing magiclantern on my dslr.
> > However you can still use blender if you use another app to batch convert
> > to EXR. You will have full bit depth files that blender does read.
> > A real issue you will find is getting a good demosaicing algorithm to get
> > correct color out of your files. Its really not anywhere near core
> function
> > for blender. Which has image manipulation as a secondary functionality.
> > Remember that its primary use is modelimg and animating in 3d.
> >
> > Look into the image conversion apps around there are free ones for all
> OSs.
> >
> > On 25 Jan 2017 10:19 am, "Dean Jones" <deanstephenjones at hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I recently discovered the power and versatility of Blender when I went
> > > online looking for software to help me edit films shot with my DSLR.
> To
> > my
> > > surprise, when I entered my search parameters, a Blender tutorial
> series
> > > was among the list of other popular, and some not so popular, film
> > editing
> > > software.
> > >
> > >
> > > I had seen the program before, but I was overwhelmed by the default
> > > rendering screen, so I didn't really investigate its other features.
> > >
> > >
> > > The video editing tutorial by Mickeycal on YouTube is awesome.  He
> helps
> > > people like me learn this very powerful feature of Blender.  However, I
> > > think you are missing an opportunity to grow your user base as well as
> > > Blender's popularity.
> > >
> > >
> > > I am a photographer who decided to finally explore the filmmaking tools
> > on
> > > my camera, and this was the catalyst for me to discover Blender's
> > > functionality in this area.  However, many DSLR shooters are also
> > > filmmakers (weddings, events, short films, music videos, etc.), and it
> > > would be great if Blender had a RAW photo editor as part of its
> > application
> > > suite.  The transition from a RAW photo editor to film-editing software
> > is
> > > a natural part of the work many photographers do.  Therefore, I would
> > like
> > > to suggest you consider adding this feature in Blender.
> > >
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> Douglas E Knapp, MSAOM, LAc.
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