Final Quality Vub Creation

Table of Contents

Upgrading vs Generating a New Shot
Upgrading Your Vub
   Upload Final Quality Media
   Run Upgrade
   Check Character Detection
   Check Lip Sync
Generating a New Final Quality Shot
   Create Your Final Quality Vub
   Refine Your Lip Sync
   Export Your Final Quality Vub
   Merge Faces

Upgrading vs Generating a New Shot

The most common scenario for creating a Final quality vub is:

• you have already run a Draft quality vub using proxy (e.g. Avid) media;
• you then refined the lip sync of your Draft vub until you were completely happy with it;
• you now wish to create the Final quality version of your Draft vub and to have your Draft quality lip sync refinement carried over to the Final quality vub. This process is called UPGRADING.

However, rather than upgrading, there are situations where, instead, you need to GENERATE your Final quality vub as a new shot. These situations are:

• if you are creating a Final quality vub without having already run a Draft vub version;
• if you have run a Draft vub but have decided to use different frames for your Final quality vub e.g. you are adding handles to your Source media;
• if you are going to be using different Driving Data for your Final quality vub e.g. if your Draft vub was using temp audio and you are now using final ADR.

If you are Upgrading for your Final quality vub, proceed below to Upgrading your vub.

If you are Generating your Final quality vub as a new shot, proceed below to Generating a New Final Quality Shot.

Upgrading Your Vub

To upgrade your vub from Draft quality to Final quality in DeepEditor, follow these steps:

• Upload Final Quality Media
• Run Upgrade
• Check Character Detection
• Check Lip Sync
• Export Upgraded Vub

Upload Final Quality Media

• Open the Shot that contains the vub you wish to upgrade. 

• Then, on the Shot Media tab you should see one piece of Source media – your proxy (e.g. Avid) media that was used for your Draft vub:

• To upload your Final quality media as a second piece of Source media. Select Add Source:

• If your Final quality media is a MOV or MXF then, in the Add Source panel, select From your computer and drag and drop the media in.

• If your Final quality media is an EXR image sequence, upload via MediaShuttle using the guidance in Uploading EXRs, following the steps referring to the Shot Media page.

• Repeat the process in the Training Data section for adding Final quality Training Data media.

• Once all media uploading is complete and you have selected the correct color space (and if needed, the frame rate) for your Final quality media, you will now have your Final quality Source media visible in your Shot Media tab and any Final quality Training Data also listed. Wait for the status of this media to become Ready to vub.

Check Character Detection

• Go to the Characters tab and ensure that the detected face of your vub character in the Final quality media has been identified as the same character as in the Draft quality media:

• If the character has not been correctly identified, make corrections as per ‘Reassigning an Appearance’ in How to Manage Characters in DeepEditor.

Run Upgrade

• In the Vubs tab, select the vub you wish to upgrade to reveal the side panel for the vub on the right hand side:

• Select Create Upgraded version:

You will then be prompted to set the Vub Name of the upgraded vub and the Quality level that you wish to upgrade to (Final):

• When happy, select Next.
• In the next panel – Choose Data Files:

• Select your Final quality media as your Source video.
• Ensure that the Driving Data is correct, as used in the Draft vub.
• Select your Final quality Training Data media in the Training Data Optional section, if you are using any (deselect your proxy training data).
• When happy, hit Next to bring up the Confirm your Vub generation screen:

• Check the details of your vub upgrade and, if happy, select Create.
• The vub upgrade is now in progress. You will see the Final quality vub in progress in the Vubs tab of the shot:

Check Lip Sync

When the vub is complete, check the lip sync of your Final quality vub. Any lip sync refinements made in the Draft vub will be transferred to the Final quality vub, but to be sure you are happy, review the vub in the Refinement tool. If you wish to adjust lip sync, refer to Lip Sync Refinement for guidance.

You may also want to send the MOV of your Final quality vub to Editorial for review – this MOV can be downloaded from the Exports tab. 

Proceed to Export Your Final Quality Vub below.

Generating a New Final Quality Shot

If it’s been determined that you need to create a new shot for your Final quality vub, then you need to follow these steps:

Create Your Final Quality Vub

• Follow the guidance in steps 2-6 of How to Create a Vub to create a Final quality vub. NOTE that if your Final quality media is an EXR image sequence, then that media should be uploaded using the guidance in Uploading EXRs.

Refine Your Lip Sync

• When your Final quality vub has been generated, refer to Lip Sync Refinement for lip sync refinement guidance if needed.

Export Your Final Quality Vub

• When the initial Final quality vub was completed, two Exports will have been generated in the Exports tab – an EXR image sequence and a MOV.

• If any further lip sync refinement has taken place to the Final quality vub, you should have generated new MOV & EXR Exports.

• You can download each of these Exports using their Download buttons – note that the EXR image sequence is downloaded via MediaShuttle.

Merge Faces

If your shot had more than one character being vubbed, you will want to merge their separate vub Exports into a single Export. To do this, select the Exports you wish to merge (either the MOVs or the EXRs) and select Merge multiple exports:

Now proceed to Final Quality Finishing.