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Hello out there.  We're trying something new to spread the word about some of the features of RV that we're most proud of.  Below you'll find several video demonstrations, with a few notes. Below each demo, there's a link to a corresponding topic on our forums, where we eagerly await your comments.  Please feel free to let us know what you think of the demos, what subjects you'd like to see in the future, etc.

Thanks for watching.

 Asset Pixel Inspector Proof of Concept Demo

 One of the most common ways to waste production time is to review shots that have the wrong stuff in them. This is particularly bad in dailies reviews where the whole crew  can end up sitting through a long discussion of shot, only to realize at the end that the model was an old version or the new lighting did not make it into the render. This video shows an approach to avoiding these kinds of mistakes by using a special pixel inspector in RV that can look up information about the shot by indexing into a separate false-color image layer. Please note, this is not a production ready tool, it's a quick hack to demonstrate the concept.

The code is simply a modified version of the RV color inspector. It took longer to roto the background image than it did to modify the RV color inspector to work this way. We like these kinds of production solutions because they are fundamentally low tech but can have a big impact on production. If your tools are flexible and customizable like RV, these kinds of solutions are easy to implement.

Shotgun & RV Preview

As I'm sure you know, Shotgun is a digital production tracking and collaboration system, and it's awesome.  Like RV it's engineered from the ground up by industry veterans to provide both a standard solution to a production pipeline need, and to put so much control and extensibility in the user's hands that it can fit into almost any studio's existing infrastructure. 

Because production tracking and media playback are both so ubiquitous in the production workflow, tightly integrating Shotgun and RV holds the promise of making almost every part of that workflow a little bit more efficient.   Tweak and our friends at Shotgun Software have been working on making this promise a reality for some months now, and we've got to the point where we'd like to show you what we've done and get some feedback on what we should do next.

Thanks to Don Parker, of Shotgun, for this great video!

If you have comments on the demo, please add them to this forum thread, or you can start your own thread in the forum we've provided for discussion of  RV/Shotgun Integration.

RV 3.8: Remote Sync and Annotation

RV has had remote sync since 3.6, but in 3.8 we've made it much easier. In fact, you can now start RV, sync with a friend, and pull all your friend's session information (so you're looking at the same media), all with a single click!   Also new in 3.8, you'll be able to mess up your beautiful images with your hand-drawn graffiti, store it in session files, bake it into snapshots and movies, and of course share it with your friends over sync.

Please add your comments to the thread for this demo.

RV Color Pipeline

This video is for the color nerds out there.  You know who you are: you care about color spaces, color transforms, bit depth, and HDR.  If that's your cup of tea, the video overview describes RV's color pipeline, with examples, touching on RV's 4-stage 3D HDR LUT pipeline, non-LUT shader transforms, and dealing with baked in color transforms.

Please add your color-nerd comments to the forum thread.