As far as we can see, there doesn't appear to be support for the black level in cineon files in Houdini, which is a fairly standard thing. It seems that Houdini brings in files with an assumption that black is at zero, which is almost never true - usually it's set to 95. The big problem with this is that simply inputting and outputting cineons through the Houdini pipeline results in altered plates - a no-no. Doesn't appear to be any envars that deal with this, and usually this would appear somewhere like the Cineon tab in the file COP. We've hacked around this for now by doing our own custom inputting and conversion, but it's a little scary to be missing this.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,

J.C.