Baselight for FCP

[Simon Ubsdell]

You have to feel for these guys.

Baselight is a great tool but who could possibly think of spending $995 on this when FCP7 is dead and when Resolve Lite is free? Such unfortunate timing – this has been in the works for so long and now it seems just way too late.

But I hope not for their sakes.

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

[Neil Patience]

Have to agree with Simon, it would be pretty much throwing good money after bad at this stage of the game.
Its a shame they didnt make it for Avid. There are of course probably lots of valid reasons why they didnt/couldnt but a really decent grading package is missing from Avid’s direct toolset.
Its true Avid and Baselight/Filmlight already offer pretty tight integration but Color beat anything Avid alone has hands down so Baselight on Avid could have been a really great addition.

best wishes
Neil
http://www.patience.tv

[Alexander Higgins]

I am not sure why Filmlight didn’t kill development right when FCP died. This Plugin will go nowhere. I usually have a hard time understanding marketing, but this one should get a big “D’oh!!”

[Lance Bachelder]

Watched their videos – looks great – to be able to do high-end grade right on the FCP timeline is awesome. But at the same time so sad… maybe they’ll make versions for other NLE’s down the road?

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California

[Michael Gissing]

Walter Biscardi reviewed this at least a year ago, before FCPX, so it isn’t new.

In the current market place with da Vinci full at the same price point, I think these guys are just hoping to recover some R&D but I can’t see anyone going for this unless they already had the full blown standalone Baselight system.

[Dermot Shane]

locked to a 32bit OS, and single proc with an EOL’d host?

yea…. too late…

With Resolve’s able read/write AAF + MFX from PP or Avid MC it closes that door to Baselight locked to XML

PP should soon have SpeedGrade intergrated at some level as well.

There’s no easy path for Baselight to get out of this mess

Avid DS’s color tools are great, the UI sucks, but that’s delt with once the color surface that’s been announced arrives, and also soon Flame/Luster will be wrapped together into one package… the other popular mid -to- high end finishing tools already include gradeing, Mystika & Pablo.

Seems to have been a giant miss-step to have put all their eggs in the Apple basket, and leaves them, Scratch and Filmaster with a shrinking market… too limited to compete with Fluster, DS, Pablo, Mystika, and possiably PP, to expensive to compete with Davinci

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[Alexander Higgins]

Here is a scenario.. “Hello Apple, I am a FCP 7 user, one of my plugins is crashing a lot and I wonder if you could help figure out why it isn’t working?”

Apple, “Whats Final Cut Pro 7?”

I really really love Filmlight, everything they make is both beautiful and amazingling powerful. I just don’t get this..

[Walter Soyka]

[Michael Gissing] “Walter Biscardi reviewed this at least a year ago, before FCPX, so it isn’t new.”

Yes, Baselight announced the FCP plugin last year at NAB, and Walter was really excited about it.

What’s new is that it’s finally actually shipping, as of today, nine months after its host was EOLed.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Jim Giberti]

Beautiful interface.
This would be an ideal upgrade/replacement for Color – and integrated into the timeline.

You could make a strong argument for locking down a few systems with 10.6.8, FCP7 and Baselight for years to come. We output everything in Pro Res 444 masters, so with the new Compressor (which I find much faster) you’d have a very solid and comprehensive system…and better integrated with Motion if you use it as well.

In that context $1k isn’t much.

[Michael Gissing]

I would still use Color, if only to use the Tangent Wave controller and to have grades render whilst FCP is still active. Grading with a mouse sucks.

Color is locked like FCP7 so is just as useful. However, I am moving to include da Vinci and possible Speedgrade depending on CS6 and what develops.