All I wanted for Xmas …

[Simon Ubsdell]

Can I just say though ….

… Snapshots are brilliant, amazing, I love them!!!!

Simon Ubsdell
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Charlie Austin]

[Simon Ubsdell] “… Snapshots are brilliant, amazing, I love them!!!!”

Yep. from my little 10.1 blog post:

it’s better than a duplicate because… If you have Compound Clips or Multicam Clips in the Project, it makes them self contained. They no longer refer to the original Compound or Multicam clip parent clip – they now only exist in the Snapshot. You can of course still edit them, break ‘em apart, whatever… but doing so will have no effect on any other Compound or Multicam Clips.

🙂

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[Mark Dobson]

[Simon Ubsdell] “And it’s great to see that they didn’t migrate the white balance tools from iMovie despite the confident rumours that this would happen”

Simon – your auto grade App is great but it does require several steps to use it effectively. I was rather taken by the iMovie white balance tool because it’s really easy to use and you can make some very quick adjustments.

But i’m not going to lose any sleep over it’s absence.

I had hoped for a sophisticated update for the Colour Correction ( uk ) but I’ll just settle for stability and no doubt benefit from the new Event structure once I’ve got used to it.

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Mark Dobson] “Simon – your auto grade App is great but it does require several steps to use it effectively. I was rather taken by the iMovie white balance tool because it’s really easy to use and you can make some very quick adjustments.”

Thanks, Mark.

Just to clarify to anyone who hasn’t used AutoGrade 2.0, you can make one click corrections using either the Global White Balance picker or the recently added Skin Tone picker which will give you results as good as or better than the iMovie tool (a lot better, I think) with just as few steps.

Of course where AutoGrade is hugely superior is that you can add in black and white point adjustments as well, but more importantly adjust the depth of the correction for each picker (not a mix but a recalculation). It’s so powerful I find myself using it even on shots that otherwise seemed perfectly well balanced.

And there’s loads more to the plug-in with still more to come in future which make it a pretty awesome grading tool and far more than just a white balancer or skin balancer. Maybe the iMovie one button solution seems more attractive at first sight but it really would have limitations for professional use – if you don’t like the one-hit result there’s not a lot you can do about it. I’m guessing that if Apple do port it over to X then it will be a bit more adaptable.

Apologies for the plug – I just wanted to clarify the differences.

https://hawaiki.co/autograde.html

STOP PRESS: AutoGrade 2.0 now seems to render even faster under 10.1 making it very quick indeed.

Simon Ubsdell
http://www.tokyo-uk.com