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Any thoughts on FCP vs. Symphony Nitris for HD online and color correction?
I am comparing FCP to Symphony to see which one would be better suited as an HD online editor and a color corection suite. We would be using a Kona3 for ingest and Terrablock storage or Symphony Nitris for ingest into an ISIS or terrablock(for 1:1HD). I also want to have the option of 4:4:4 workflow. I also understand that I will need Atomatic Duck to bring the Avid sequences to onlined.
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I wouldn’t compare the bare bones of FCP against Nitris – take a look at http://www.siliconcolor.com to see what you really need for colour correction on FCP. Nitris is great for real time grunt, but I find the layering quite limited. If you can push the budget to DS Nitris then I would always choose that. Avid are about to support a dual boot combination so that you buy DS and get Symphony as well, all you do is reboot from one to the other.
I own and operate FCP (incl shake motion etc), DS Nitris & Symphony Nitris and I find the FCP fiddly – but that said I’ve not dedicated enough time to it and i’ve hired freelancers that have performed amazing effects heavy edits on it. I reckon Symphony Nitris with AFX would be my tool of choice if the budget was tighter though.
Good luck, it’s no longer an easy decision with all these boxes around.
Paul
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Hi,
If you do a lot of CC and FX heavy Online you should also look at a linux based Discreet SmokeHD. We invested in one last year, it absolutely rocks, the CC tools are stonking!
Angus
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I don’t have much info on Avid, but I can at least tell you that we use FCP alot for heavy broadcast CC, and in most cases I think it’s just fine. When FCP doesn’t work good enough we use Final Touch, which is sorta getting better and better, and most of the serious bugs have been fixed. Final touch has replaced a couple of Davincis and I think the workflow is quite nice. FinalTouch is quite cheap for what you get.
Anders
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I agree, you really should consider Smoke in this mix. Last year we were considering buying a Nitris DS, and decided on a Smoke for a variety of reasons. First, they aren’t as exspensive as they used to be. Linux has brought the cost way down. Like Angus said, it has an awesome color corrector. It also has alot of tool sets from the Flame, so it’s a really strong compositing system.
moody glasgow
smoke artist
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