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Color Finale
I thought I saw someone mention this in the myriad of FCPX 10.2 posts. Anyone using this? Is it a good add? There is a 25% off offer via No Film School and thought about picking it up. Thanks in advance.
https://try.colorgradingcentral.com/colorfinale/
Scott
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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Quite amazing. My trial ran out and I’ll be getting it. I wish it had masks, but perhaps he knew what was coming and that 10.2 would cover that need somewhat.
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Another vote for Finale. It adds curves, LUTS, and the vector grading is very very useful.
So glad that X now has customizable scope displays to be able to measure multiple values at once.
It’s worth it if you color correct/grade in X, even if you use it just to apply LUTs.
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What do you feel it compares to? Resolve? The new Premiere?
I think I read that masks are coming soon to a CF release.
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Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
I don’t think I would compote it to Resolve, it’s not going to match feature for feature, but the speed, quality, and control, and advantage of staying within FCPX is well worth the dough.
I used CGC’s LUT Utility before Finale and it was the best performing LUT plugin available, in my opinion.
The new Liumetri workflow looks great in Pr, but I haven’t tried it yet, so I can’t compare.
One of my favorite features in Finale is the percentage slider so you can dial any and all layers back just a little if the levels have gone a bit too far, but things are balanced where you want them to be.
Also, again, the vector grades are really powerful.
I haven’t had time to test it out with X’s new masks quite yet, but looking forward to that.
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Definitely worth it. It’s the only real curve solution available in FCP X. It’s a little awkward with dual displays, it keeps snapping back to the main display. And it is a bit buggy, crashes FCP X occasionally. But, I finally feel like I have control over the image.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Also, again, the vector grades are really powerful.”
My favorite feature!
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!Check out my Mormon.org profile.
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[Brett Sherman] “Definitely worth it. It’s the only real curve solution available in FCP X. It’s a little awkward with dual displays, it keeps snapping back to the main display. And it is a bit buggy, crashes FCP X occasionally. But, I finally feel like I have control over the image.”
I haven’t had any bugginess except that the trial never expired. Now I’m afraid to pay for it for fear that it will stop working! And yes, I did report it to them.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!Check out my Mormon.org profile.
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I bought it today, installed it. In FCPX, after I drop it on a shot, when I go to the inspector, I don’t see any controls. No Color finale GUI. How do I get it? I also bought Impulz LUTs on sale.
Kannan Raghavan
The Big Toad Films Pte. Ltd. -
What Mac and GFX card do you have? It’s not supported by my Ati 7950
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Here’s the support notes from Denver Riddle. Skip to #3.
1) If you’re running Mavericks 10.9 you may experience
a crash or it won’t function properly; currently we’re
not supporting Mavericks (we have stated this)2) Even if you’ve updated to Yosemite but have an older graphics
card supporting OpenCL v1.0 this will cause a crash in Final Cut.
Color Finale requires OpenCL v1.2 clickhttps://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202823
To see if your graphics card supports OpenCL v1.2
3) If after installing you don’t see the “Open” button to
launch CF in the inspector, make sure the ‘ColorFinale’ app
has been moved to the main /Applications folder.
If that still doesn’t work please move to trash bin
and reinstall from .dmg (make sure FCP X is closed while reinstalling)4) If you’re a prior LUT Utility owner and want to use your
same LUTs in CF, run the ‘ColorFinale’ app from main Applications
folder. Go to “File” then down to “Import from LUT Utility”
this is a migration assistant. Be sure to RESTART FCPX to
refresh the changes. ALSO IMPORTANT THAT YOU DON’T HAVE
ANY LUTS APPLIED IN THE TIMELINE WHILE PERFORMING THIS.5) If you want your LUTs to show up as ‘Groups’ you can do this
by going to /Movies/Motion Templates/Effects/Color Finale/LUTs
in the Finder and creating groups with folders. Restart FCP X
to refresh the changes. OR you can use create ‘Groups’ with
LUT Manager, which you can run from ‘ColorFinale’ app or within LUT Utility tool.
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