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Color finesse
Hi all!
Is anyone using Color Finesse reguarly? I tried it a year ago and had a lot of problems with corrections not sticking to clips. If memory serves this was in FCP 4.1 under 10.3.4.
Hardware:
Power Mac G5 (dual 2 Ghz)
2.5Gb RAM
1 TB FW800 Raid (2 LaCie FW800 controllers and 4 250Gb Lacie FW800 D2 drives)
Decklink Pro
Sony PVM20L4 with DK-120 SDI optionSoftware:
Mac OS X 10.3.4
FCP 4.5 HD
QT 6.5.1
BMD 4.2 drivers -
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You might want to consider silicon color’s Final Touch SD. It is a very powerful program that was developed closely with Apple.
It works in RT with your graphics card as well and has excellent XML support between programs.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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Sounds like I will need to check it out. I’ve been getting more and more grading jobs lately. The reason I’d like to use CF is that I do a lot of grading in FCP on a freelance basis (not my own gear) and the computers vary. Would be nice to make the companies buy something that I’ll be familiar with at all places.
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Final Touch is dedicated grading software, but I would recomend setting up a system because it is hardware dependent (video card) but it costs less than AE + CF and it wil be faster in the long run.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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Good point!
Now, how to make people understand the value added with a system like this!
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Try these:
1. Passing QC at major broadcasters
2. Your show looks better.
3. It’s like eating cake without the icing!🙂
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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I use CF all the time, GREAT color correction plugin for FCP
there was some problems but since 4.5 and the last few CF updates it ROCKSI would try out the demo from SA again
Hey Dave re you comment
Final Touch is dedicated grading software, but I would recomend setting up a system because it is hardware dependent (video card) but it costs less than AE + CF and it wil be faster in the long run.you think FT and a dedicated system would be cheaper then CF ? the SD version of the plugin costs $1K alone without the “dedicated system” you recommend. to correct HD clips you need to shell out $5K (CF works with whatever you are using in you TL, HD or SD or whatever)
(BTW you don’t need AE to run CF works fine in FCP)CF ROCKS
(sorry Dave had to stick up for CF, see you at the meeting on Tuesday?)
DAVE
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Thanks!
That’s the answer I was looking for!
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Dave was referring to buying CF + AE. That’s an investment of (off the top of my head, so please don’t flame me if I’m off by a few hundred $$) $1200- $2200.
I agree, though that $600 for CF as a plugin for FCP is pretty reasonable.
Arnie
https://www.arniepix.com
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