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Color me unimpressed
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[Sean Lander] ”
I wouldn’t mind it if all the disparate apps at least had a unified interface.
It all looks good but the thought of now having to learn yet another program, Color
is not something I’m looking forward to.”Considering Apple has only had this for four months, a new interface was not going to be coming. Also, since this is designed for colorists, the Black background of the interface is necessitated to keep a lot of light from spilling into the room. Honestly after working in Final Touch, I really wish Apple would darken all of their interfaces because it is a pain to CC with all the light in the room with the FCP interface.
But I would expect a more unified interface from Color by next NAB.
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I do kind of understand the frustration with diferentent apps to accomplish anything. truth of the matter is FCP is the one apps that was really designed from the ground up by Apple. the others are the result of other software companies Apple purchased. I wish Apple would have put more forethought into intergrating the programs and giving them a more standaized interface. Some things really bug me. Liek sincethey introduced LiveType they haven’t made any improvements to the text tool in FCP and I doubt they ever will. So if you want titles that don’t look terrible you have to learn another program.
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[Peterd] “truth of the matter is FCP is the one apps that was really designed from the ground up by Apple”
Actually, Macromedia originated FCP and Apple bought it from them. THe only apps in FCS that Apple originated was STP and Motion.
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Macromedia developed Final Cut. Apple bought it from them.
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Apple bought Key Grip from Macromedia in 1997 and released it as Final Cut Pro 1.0 in 1999. It has come from a barely capable editing tool on MacOs 9, to FCP 2-3-4-5 and now 6 in 8 years. I’d say Apple has been putting some real effort into this project.
I really wish Apple would at least change the Media manager interface to qwell some of the unrest about MM and why is it still coded on the old code base as illustrateded by the look of the application compared to DVD Studio Pro, Motion and Soundtrack?
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You are so correct on this. My biggest complaint with Apple’s implementation of FCP and all the studio packages for that matter, has been design. Shake is their only package that I like the look of, and of course, by the time they update it, it may be wearing the same bullshit look of the other packages. For a company that has always trumpeted, and rightfully so, good design, they have completely missed the mark. Small if not miniature buttons, horrible icon design, and if I see one more screen of brushed aluminum, I am going to puke.
-Scott
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Check out “Color Correction for Digital Video: Using Desktop Tools to Perfect Your Image” by Steve Hullfish and Jaime Fowler.
It describes the process pretty well.
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“You can save looks and or presets and apply them anywhere in the timeline. Is that what you mean?”
No, in Symphony, you can do one color correction for a reel and it will automatically apply the effect in the timeline to every shot off of that source tape. No dragging or dropping required. It’s a sweet feature.
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“It has come from a barely capable editing tool on MacOs 9, to FCP 2-3-4-5 and now 6 in 8 years. I’d say Apple has been putting some real effort into this project.”
I remember my friends at Avid back in the ’90s, upset by Apple’s release of FCP, and insisting to me that Apple wasn’t serious about pro-applications. They told me Apple is just looking to get their toes wet, they’ll get bored and move on in a year or two. They insisted that Apple would never produce a competative product. Some of us were screaming to Avid that they needed to compete back then, or this flame would develop into an inferno (pun intended). Who’s laughing now?
Honestly.. I found FCP quite capable in version 1.0. I used it to cut together an animated open for a special I was working on. I put the whole thing together on a G3 Pismo, and it blew everyone away that I could just walk around with an editing system in my hands. Of course, that’s nothing new today! 😉
“I really wish Apple would at least change the Media manager interface to qwell some of the unrest about MM”
It’s not that their MM is horrible, it’s just not up to par with Avid’s product. What I keep pounding home is that Avid, though a fantastic tool for storytelling, has held the exact same feature set for about five years now. There’s been almost no innovation beyond hardware, and their hardware reliablity has gotten much worse with the DNA family. Apple, on the other hand, keeps moving the bar. I’d like to see the UI tweaked a bit, it’s getting a little long in the tooth, MM, as you said, could use an overhaul.
Like I said, I rely on Avid for my profession, I can’t work on other systems with the same speed. But Apple is where the excitement is right now. Avid Unity workflow? Hard to get excited about. Native Boris and Sapphire-like effects? 3D Motion particles? Sensational new color correction? Enhanced audio workflow? You should all be jumping.
Apple has impressed with the new release of FCPS 2.
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I see. Really nice really. Maybe in a future update.
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