Access. Framegrade is pre-release. The source is private and there is no installer or versioned release. It is available through a studio engagement; contact me for setup.
Framegrade is the engine that turns raw video and photos into finished files. It does the picture work only: it does not title, schedule or publish anything. waypost runs it underneath and adds the console, the review gate and the publishing queue.
What it does
- Grading. A look is applied to a whole day of footage, and to photos, through the same grade engine. The look is a LUT built from a sampled analysis of the footage, applied with pycube-lut.
- Sharpening and noise reduction from measurement. The amount of each follows a measurement of the picture and is zero when the picture does not need it. Photo develop works this way today. Bringing the same measured policy to video is in progress; until it lands, video sharpening is off.
- Declared upscaling. A source smaller than the delivery size can be scaled up instead of being refused. The run records that it was upscaled, and a setting can stop a title from claiming a native resolution the source did not have. This is in progress.
- Trail films. A route film opens on satellite imagery that zooms from a wide view down to the start of the track, then follows the GPS track with photos placed by capture time and a placed video clip.
- Inserts. A still or a clip placed at a chosen point in a long video, fitted to the frame and cut on keyframes with keycut. This is in progress.
- Picture gates. A finished file is checked against its delivery size, colour tags, loudness, freeze and black frames, and blur coverage. A failure stops the run. Faces and plates are blurred with redactcam.
How it is used
Framegrade takes a run description (sources, a GPS track, a brand profile and the text to burn in) and returns the finished files with their sidecar measurements and gate results. The brand profile carries the look, the logo, the delivery presets and the upscale policy, so the engine holds no brand name of its own.
Documentation
The source and its documentation are private.