color correction

[Walter Biscardi]

[rap] “how many of you rely on the built in wave monitor and victor scop in final cut and how acurate do you think it is for color correction.
in other way, do you belive that one can start and finish a film on FCP without the need to take the film to online studios for color correction?”

Projects are finished on FCP all the time. We’ve delivered probably over 100 hours of HD Programming alone just on FCP.

As for the scopes, they are what we use, but I also have been editing for 17 years and know what to trust and what not to trust. For one thing, I never trust that my whites that show at exactly 100 are really pegged there. I always drop a bit from 100 when using FCP.

Now Color IS extremely accurate and the broadcast safe functions work perfectly. When we first started using Final Touch HD (the precursor to Color) we tested the internal scopes against the $15,000 Tektronix WFM-700 scopes and found them to match perfectly.

You can grade to your heart’s content in there and know that the scopes are telling you the truth. Of course, they don’t update correctly in the Secondaries room right now, but they are accurate.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Chris Borjis]

I’d like to add, that Colorista does a better job than the built in CC tools in final cut.

Inky blacks and highlights without posterizing, in a nutshell.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Borjis] “I’d like to add, that Colorista does a better job than the built in CC tools in final cut.”

Absolutely, can’t believe I forgot to mention them. FAR superior to the FCP 3-Way tools.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.

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[Shane Ross]

Yeah, I haven’t dipped into COLOR yet…I use Colorista. Colored my last show with it, and using it now for two shorter projects.

VERY good color corrector. And it’s ability to do pseudo-secondaries is VERY powerful.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Chris Borjis]

I was wondering about that myself.

why is a secondary not an option?

tell me more about the psuedo secondary if you don’t mind.

[Shane Ross]

I believe that Stu Maschwitz does a good job on a video demo comparing the two here:

https://prolost.blogspot.com/2007/02/colorista-in-fcp.html

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Chris Borjis]

thanks

[Rap]

sorry for this question guys but what is colorisia? I’m not infront of my FCP but is that an option that comes with the FCP or you have to buy it?

[Shane Ross]

It is a third party plugin that you buy. $199. WELL worth it.

https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/magicbulletcolorista.html

Just watch that demo.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Chris Coote]

We have been testing Color along with the FCP 3 way CC to try and figure out a workflow for an upcoming series. I think we’ve decided not to use Color because of the long render times and bugginess. We’re not going to be doing any secondaries, mainly just contrast, legalizing and color cast fixes. We are also interested in trying out Colorista. How do the render times compare with the FCP 3 way? We will be using Prores HQ at 1080i 29.97 on an 8 core.