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ARRI Reference Tool (ART)

The tool for ARRIRAW processing

ARRI Reference Tool, or ART for short, combines the functionality of our previous tools into a single package. You can review clips, check and extract metadata, create and extract look files, and transcode footage to a different format.

The ARRI Reference Tool allows you to render ALEXA 35/ALEXA 35 Xtreme or ALEXA 265 footage using our ARRI Debayer Algorithm ADA-7 and REVEAL Color Science. It is also backwards compatible with all ALEXA and AMIRA cameras, which can be de-bayered to LogC4 and travel through REVEAL as well.

Additionally, ART supports QuickTime/ProRes or MXF/ProRes, as well as the CODEX HDE (High Density Encoding) file format. To keep your footage organized, you can create projects with bins and sequences.

User interface version (ART GUI 1.8.0)

The following features are included in the current release:

New in View Room

  • Support for ARRICORE with the introduction of ALEXA 35 Xtreme

Command line version (ART CMD 0.4.0)

The ARRI Reference Tool CMD is a command line tool that supports the processing of MXF/ARRIRAW and Apple ProRes recording formats of all current ALEXA cameras.

The following functions are included in this version:

Trim mode

  • creation of a trimmed RDD54/55 compliant MXF file for ARRIRAW, HDE and Apple ProRes
  • reading of legacy ARRIRAW .ari and output as RDD54/55-compliant MXF file
  • creation of a trimmed RDD61/55 compliant MXF file for ARRICORE files
     

Verification mode

  • for individual (ARRIRAW) clips by recalculating the checksums of the individual video frames and comparing them with the checksums in the clip metadata
  • for two clips by comparing the checksums of the audio and video data for ARRICORE
  • for two clips by comparing the checksums of the audio and video data for Apple ProRes
     

Process mode 

  • OpenEXR 16-bit and 32-bit with compression mode in scenes linear
  • Tiff in 16-bit integer in LogC and video color spaces
  • Apple ProRes in LogC and video color spaces & embedded look
     

Export mode

  • original audio tracks as .wav file
  • Static and dynamic camera metadata as .json file
  • Export from ARRICORE, ARRIRAW, HDE and Apple ProRes MXF files

All functions are supported for the following recording formats:
- ARRIRAW and HDE in MXF according to RDD 54/55 and ARRI V3 header (as well as individual .ari or .arx files
- Apple ProRes formats in MXF according to RDD 55 and ARRI V3 header
- ARRICORE in MXF according to RDD 61/55

 Note:  Apple ProRes Quick Time in .mov format is currentl not supported.

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Have our Camera Systems expert Sean Dooley explain different ways to manipulate color within the ALEXA 35 with ARRI Look File 4. Use the save-guarded ARRI color pipeline or explore using your own DRTs.

Please note: This applies to ALEXA 265 alike.

ARRI Tech Talk Understanding ARRI Look Files and Custom Color Management for ALEXA 35 Image

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