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Color corrections keyframing
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You can do this easily by creating an FCPX Effect using Motion 5, where you CAN keyframe saturation and other color parameters
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Yep, completely agree with Rob on this one. Great work around – what a fool I was to think it was an original idea of mine :(. In fact, I wrote a little spiel on how I used this technique in a project:
https://www.hamiltonfilms.com.au/no-cut-no-worries/
Of course, in colour grading applications like Davinci Resolve, you can keyframe the correction nodes themselves. But, to be honest, I still find the split and dissolve technique to be much more simple and elegant.
If you have other effects on the clip that can not be split (i.e. stabilization as per the post above) I would suggest baking those effects into the clip (i.e. rendering it out in something like ProRes 4444 etc.) Creative Colour grading like you talk about should be one of your final tasks (if not your final task), so if you really want to retain your raw detail, I would suggest performing a primary correction before baking in effects, then doing your animated creative grade as a final step.
Great thread guys!
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Rather than “baking” other effects in, the non-destructive alternative is to make the clips into a Compound Clip and then you can blade and adjust as required without affecting effects already in the originals. Then if you need to adjust these clips, simply open the CC in the Storyline.
If you do go down the “baking” route, you don’t need ProRes 4444 unless you have transparent areas in the clip – use 422 most of the time.
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Great point Andy – compounding the clip is a much better solution.
Re. ProRes versions, I’ll have to disagree with you on that one. There are more benefits to 4444 than the alpha channel, namely no chroma sub-sampling and 12-bit colour support. Obviously, the trade off is file size, but we’re talking colour grading here, so more information the better right?
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It’s a trade-off as you say – but there’s no need to “bake” anything with FCP X any more. The whole idea is non-destructive editing.
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Wow. It’s pathetic that you can’t adjust colour corrections over time. Guess I’m going back to Adobe.
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yes but you can’t compound clip a stabilised clip and a lot of people use that.
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Sure you can. You just have to stabilize the clip WITHIN the compound clip. By it’s definition you can’t stabilize a compound clip as it more than often is not a single clip.
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