The Latest Version of ARRI’s Reference Tool CMD is Here With Some Big Updates for On-Set and Post Workflows
ARRI’s Reference Tool, often shortened to ART, combines many of the company’s previous tools into a single package. And it’s pretty helpful for those looking to unlock ARRIRAW processing as they review clips, check and extract metadata, create and extract look files, and transcode footage to a different format.
However, there’s always more functionality to be had, and this new update to the ARRI Reference Tool CMD is set to add more modes and features to a command-line tool that already supports processing many different formats.
Here’s what’s new.
ARRI Reference Tool CMD Update 1.1.0
At a base level, the ARRI Reference Tool allows filmmakers and DPs to render ALEXA 35/ALEXA 35 Xtreme or ALEXA 265 footage using our ARRI Debayer Algorithm ADA-7 and REVEAL Color Science.
The tool is backward compatible with all ALEXA and AMIRA cameras, which can be de-bayered to LogC4 and run through REVEAL as well. The tool already supports QuickTime/ProRes or MXF/ProRes, as well as the CODEX HDE (High Density Encoding) file format, and is available in GUI and CMD versions.
This CMD version is the one getting the update as it will support hte processing of the following formats:
- MXF/ARRIRAW according to SMPTE RDD 54/55
- MXF/HDE according to SMPTE RDD 54/55
- MXF/ARRICORE according SMPTE RDD 61/55 and
- *.ari ARRIRAW and *.arx HDE single file sequences according to the legacy ARRI V3 metadata header.
- Apple ProRes QuickTime in *.mov
Adding More Modes
This ARRI Reference Tool CMD Update 1.1.0 will also add several new modes and features to help out with your projects. Here’s a full breakdown.
Copy Mode
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