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Directions for working with CineForm RAW(TM) demo footage from SI-2K camera
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Important Note: In order to work with Prospect2K versions 3.2 or higher, please
download the AVIHeaderUpdate.exe from the main Silicon Imaging support page at:
http://www.siliconimaging.com/DigitalCinema/SiliconImaging_support.html

1) Download the 15-day CineForm Prospect 2K Demo or NEO 2K demo from the 
CineForm website (link at the top of the gallery web-page).

2) Download the .zip file from the gallery web-page containing the CineForm RAW
AVI file and the IRIDAS .look file for the AVI.

3) Install CineForm Prospect 2K or NEO 2K (Premiere Pro 2.0 required for 
Prospect 2K Install, for other applications use NEO 2K).  If you simply want to
playback the files and import into AE and Premiere Pro, download NEO Player,
which is a decoder-only product. NEO player will never expire unlike the 15-day 
demos of Prospect and NEO 2K.

4) Double-click on the .look file to register it.  You should get a message box
after double-clicking it that says, "1 LUT file(s) installed or upgraded".

5) Opening the CineForm RAW AVI file in Windows Media player will result in a
half-resolution decode.  This is normal, as it's a "proxy" generated from the
full-resolution wavelet information in real-time.  This "proxy" was created so
that RAW files could be played back in Windows Media Player on modest machines
and laptops.

6) Open Premiere Pro and create a CineForm project at 2048x1152 (Prospect 2K 
only).

7) Import the CineForm RAW file.

8) In order to access the CineForm RAW controls for a clip, place the clip on
the timeline and park the playhead over the clip so that it is visible in the
Program Monitor.  Then go into the "Playback Settings" in the context menu of
the Program Monitor.

9) There wll be two buttons in the lower left-hand corner: "Global Settings" and
"File Settings".

10) "File Settings" allows adjustment to the white-balance, .look file
associated with the clip, and other adjustments to the metadata of the RAW file.
 "Global Settings" adjusts the quality of the demosaic in the rendered output
and the preview/scrubbing.  Bilinear is a very basic but fast demosaic algorith,
while the 5x5 Advanced is much sharper but slower for scrubbing.

11) The CineForm control areas also allow the user to turn on/off any or all of
the metadata settings to get back to the RAW 10-bit LOG format without any color
manipulation.

12) Using IRIDAS SpeedGrade OnSet, you can make modifications to the .look file
and apply them to footage using the "Apply Look" controls under the "File
Settings" section of the CineForm controls. For each new .look you make, be sure
to register the .look file by double-clicking it in the Explorer.  If a .look
file has not been registered, it will not be accessable to the CineForm
software.  You can get a free 30-day trial of SpeedGrade OnSet from IRIDAS at
www.iridas.com

13) You can also import the RAW .avi file into After Effects (both Prospect 2K 
and NEO products).  Note: enteringinto 32-bit float mode results in the file being 
re-linearized for proper linear-light 32-bit floating point operation.  This
will look like a gamma shift to the end-user, but it is actually correct math 
for true linear-light operations.  To go back to a "correct" looking gamma-
corrected image, add an adjustment or guides layer that has a "levels" filter 
and adds a gamma of 2.2 to the image.  Do you compositing and other layer-based 
manipulation upstream from the the gamma-correction adjustment/guide layer for
correct 32-bit linear floating point compositing operations (so the 
adjustment/guide layer should always stay on the top in the comp).

14) In After Effects to turn off the metadata (3D LUT and white-balance),
returning you the RAW 10-bit log data from the camera, go into the "Project"
panel, right click on the footage, and go to "Interpret Footage".  At the 
bottom of the Interpret Footage window is a button labeled "More".  Click on 
that button and then selec the check-box to turn off metadata for that clip.