colour grading on FCP?

[Jerry Hofmann]

Tell me more about the workflow… I’m really interested in Final Touch… would things be better if you exported a self contained movie of the composite? or maybe cc the footage before you edit it in or even just export a self contained movie of the whole project file into FT?

Jerry

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[Francois Stark]

FT renders (ideally) in 10 bit 4:2:2 uncompressed. Depending on the grades you apply on each shot, it renders almost real-time up to 3 times longer than RT. So it’s not really practical to grade your footage before editing.

Ideal workflow:

-Edit content in FCP
-export as XML, referencing source media
-import this XML into Final Touch
-Grade
-Render in FT – this creates a new set of QT files in a render output folder
-finalgather in FT – this creates a new XML file that references the new QT files
-Open FCP and import the XML back into FCP.
-play out to tape.

You can imagine the problems in the XML process. multple layers or composites done in FCP don’t translate well.

Regards
Francois

[Adam Sondej]

>>The Color Correction tools in Final Cut Pro are outstanding. I’ve been cutting an >HD broadcast series and all coloring is done with the Color Corrector, 3 Way Color >>Corrector, Broadcast Safe and Levels filter. I get absolutely outstanding results.

Are all the grading effects you mention real time
through the Kona 2 and Black Magic HD cards?
If so, are these are generated at 10 Bit quality?

Thanks

Adam Sondej