Production resources
A small set of calculators I use day to day — production, sound, post and color. Free to use, no sign-up, processed right in your browser.
Rough estimate of export time based on duration, resolution, timeline complexity and hardware.
Open toolConvert between frame rates and add or subtract timecodes, with drop-frame support.
Open toolRough estimate of a room’s reverberation time (RT60) using the Sabine formula.
Open toolTitle and action safe areas, plus per-platform UI margins, overlaid on your chosen frame format.
Open toolReal capacity, dynamic bitrate and formats: ProRes, DNx, BRAW, XAVC and more. Auto-scales with resolution and FPS.
Open toolDelivery, mezzanine and RAW codecs. Subjective quality estimated via relative VMAF.
Open toolLoad a reference frame and analyze its luminance and chrominance distribution right in the browser.
Open toolShutter speed from the shutter angle rule, and the ND filter needed to keep your desired aperture.
Open toolEquivalent focal length and crop factor between different sensor sizes.
Open toolCalculate the sharp-focus range and hyperfocal distance from sensor, focal length, aperture and subject distance.
Open toolExtract the dominant colors from a reference frame or image right in your browser.
Open toolEstimated size and storage savings when working with proxies versus the original footage.
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