Colorista on Leopard?

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Ron,
Which problems are you having with Colorista?
Colorista needs to fix some bugs but runs fine in Leopard 10.5.2

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[David Roth weiss]

Yep, I have it running under Leopard as well.

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Ron Craig] “I’m Leopard; it’s not. Anyone know if it will soon get its spots?”

works fine here for the most part. We don’t use it as much as we used to, but it does work

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[Ron Craig]

Well, whaddya know? I didn’t even install it after I realized my mistake. I called Red Giant at that time and they said to wait for a Leopard update but it’s been a few months and no further word.

I guess maybe I’ll give it a try. Although I am surprised by your comment, Walter You were very positive about Colorista months ago. Why don’t you use it much any more? Something I should be wary of? (I guess I’d better buy that DVD of yours, eh?!)

Thanks for the responses, folks.

[Rafael Amador]

Walter now is mostly using Color.
I’m usingtoo bouth, dpending of the job. Colorista. Is a very good application. Much better than the CC3-W and you can CC directly in the FC time-line.

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Andrew Kimery]

Not to speak for Walter, but if I remember correctly, he ran into some backwards compatibility problems after updating Colorista where projects that used the old version of Colorista didn’t open up properly after the update.

-A

[Walter Biscardi]

[Ron Craig] “lthough I am surprised by your comment, Walter You were very positive about Colorista months ago. Why don’t you use it much any more? Something I should be wary of? (I guess I’d better buy that DVD of yours, eh?!)”

When they updated Colorista it cannot properly read the settings from old projects.

In our case, we had a series that we cut about 6 or 8 months ago using Colorista for the color grading. Red Giant released an update to Colorista between the time we originally cut the show and when we re-cut the show last month.

All of our Colorista settings were way off base. Very dark, colors wrong, you name it, everything was wrong. I contacted Red Giant and they acknowledged the problem.

So instead of just being able to tweak the edit and re-render, we had to completely re-color grade five 30 minute episodes of a show. I’ve never seen a filter do this before in FCP so now we’re leery of using Colorista for anything major. Short projects sure, but anything that’s a broadcast series or something we know will come back for a re-edit, we either use the FCP 3Way or Color.

It’s still a great filter, but if it can’t recall the settings from a previous incarnation of the software, then it’s something that we really don’t want to use that much.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Rafael Amador] “Walter now is mostly using Color.”

It’s a 50/50 split right now between Color and the FCP 3-Way. Colorista is better, but per my response to Ron’s post, we now use Colorista sparingly.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Ron Craig]

Thanks for sharing your painful experience, Walter. I’ll bet Red Giant has a different approach to upgrades now. Or at least I would hope they’re listening to your experience.