Color Correction: FCPX vs Premiere Pro

[Steve Connor]

Haven’t used CC much in Pro, although I imagine the CC in that is going to get a whole lot better with the addition of Speedgrade.

However I’m finding the CC in FCPX to be fantastic, once I worked out the new controls. Having basic secondaries is very useful and even heavy CC doesn’t seem to tax the realtime performance. However the lack of key framing can be a real pain!

Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
Adrenalin Television

[Liam Hall]

Colour correction FCPX is basic, but quick. Colour correction in PP is basically good, but slow.

Liam Hall
Director/DoP/Editor
http://www.liamhall.net

[Dennis Radeke]

picture of the color correction effects that come with Premiere Pro.

Two to point out:
– 3-way CC is thorough and includes secondaries. Not the fastest thing, but it is really good.
– Fast CC is really quick and easy. one click white balance with levels, saturation, etc.

[Oliver Peters]

FCP X color correction is good and clean, although the color board is non-standard compared with color wheels. It gets a lot more powerful if you add Nattress Curves, Yanobox Moods and Simon’s two grading and color wheel plug-ins. The last two are free.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Bobby Mosca]

I’ve been reading around and it seems Adobe has acquired and will be adding SpeedGrade to CS6, at which point the answer to my question will be obvious.

FCPX is getting left in the dust, it seems.

[Lance Bachelder]

Adobe needed to buy Speedgrade and let’s hope for a cool implementation a la FCP/Color (sob sob). That list Dennis posted looks impressive and I’ve used everything there and I’ll take FCPX Color Board any day. I love that there is no need to actually ad any color plug-in in X – just click on a clip and it’s ready to go.

I’ve been playing with Tonalizer in FCPX quite a bit and it’s my favorite all-time 3rd party plug-in. Really practical and fast with great sharpening and noise reduction built in. No Adobe version yet.

Most Editors I know use 3rd party plugs for color timing within the NLE although Media Composer and FCP legacy both have pretty good built in color tools. The nice thing about using something like Magic Bullet Colorista or Looks is that they have versions for just about every NLE on both Mac and Windows so it’s back to what NLE you like to cut in…

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California

[Steve Connor]

[Bobby Mosca] “I’ve been reading around and it seems Adobe has acquired and will be adding SpeedGrade to CS6, at which point the answer to my question will be obvious.

FCPX is getting left in the dust, it seems.
“

Not really, FCPX roundtrips to DaVinci Resolve very easily if you need the extra power

Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
Adrenalin Television

[Liam Hall]

[Dennis Radeke] “picture of the color correction effects that come with Premiere Pro.

Two to point out:
– 3-way CC is thorough and includes secondaries. Not the fastest thing, but it is really good.
– Fast CC is really quick and easy. one click white balance with levels, saturation, etc.

“

Perhaps in CS6 you can combine these seventeen colour filters into one speedy interface…

Liam Hall
Director/DoP/Editor
http://www.liamhall.net

[Marcus Samuel-gaskin]

[Bobby Mosca] “I’ve been reading around and it seems Adobe has acquired and will be adding SpeedGrade to CS6, at which point the answer to my question will be obvious.

FCPX is getting left in the dust, it seems.”

Not really. Speedgrade has just about the most non-standard interface the industry has ever seen. Ive used it before Adobe acquired it. It’s going to take a lot of re-architecting if Joe Editor is going to use it as an everyday tool. There’s a reason it didn’t catch on…

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Lance Bachelder] “I’ve been playing with Tonalizer in FCPX quite a bit and it’s my favorite all-time 3rd party plug-in.”

I’d be very interested to hear why you think Tonalizer is so special. Could you describe what it does that you haven’t been able to do with anything else?

Thanks.

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com