Color Correction in Motion – where’s the waveform monitor?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Budrick21] “For instance, Walter, you do a ton of broadcast work – do you use a hardware waveform monitor? If not, what do you do? (I hope you’re reading this…)”

I use the waveforms in FCP and Final Touch HD (when it works). I don’t use Motion for color correction.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[David Eells]

Hey Walter

Thanks for responding. So if you’re cutting in FCP, and you have a shot that really needs color correction, (and Wondertouch is having a bad day), would you color correct in FCP, then output a QT movie, bring that back into FCP and then send that clip to Motion? I can do/have done that, just seems a little inelegant.

Also, am I correct in my feeling that Motion isn’t quite ready for prime time?

Cheers,

Bud

[Walter Biscardi]

I’d probably color correct everything after it comes back from Motion.

Motion is plenty ready for prime time, it just takes a while to get used to the interface if all you’ve ever done is FCP or After Effects. I use it quite a bit on our Good Eats animations.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[David Eells]

Hey again

Color correcting after the fact would be fine, except that I’m layering, so that every layer needs to be corrected separately.

I’ve definitely got my AE head on when I’m using Motion, but I had no effects head at all (!) when I started with AE, and I found it profoundly intuitive. And let’s face it, Apple has its eye on the AE user.

Anyway, thanks for your time and attention.

Best,

B