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FCP and Final touch HD
Hi there,
I’m interested in learning more about Final touch HD – especially workflows for grading long form projects. Does anyone have hands on experience with any of the Final Touch software?? I have arranged to have a demo, but I would like a heads up of things to look out for.
Paul
Freelance DS/Symphony
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5 Replies
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I’ve used the demo and was unimpressed. I’ve been using Shake for 2 1/2 years now and I can pull better grades in that. Granted, you don’t get the GUI that colourists/telecine ops would be used to, but as Shake 4 will have roundtripping from FCP, it will make life a lot easier. You can also use Shake to composite! 🙂
Take a look at the thankyou’s in the front of the Final Touch manual, it says a lot.
I’m grading a friends short film at the moment, and Shake adds that extra polish. It can be very subtle or pull radical grades. It is also resolution independent, so you don’t have to shell out for the 2K version of FT.
Also with FT you need the ATI X800 installed which I think was part due in crashing my G5 recently – The NVidia 6800 went straight back in.
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That’s hilarious, Steve Nayler mentioned your name to me just today as he was leaving a 24 hour edit over at the london studios! Thanks for the reply. Fantastic review of Motion that i’ve just read over…
Paul
Freelance DS/Symphony
London -
Steve had the edit suite below me in “Endersby Towers” in Sheffield two weeks ago.
Bare in mind the Motion review is nearly a year old now!
Peter
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With shake there is on major problem no RT playback other than that it is natural that shake is much better @ grading baecause of the more extensive toolset better mates, tracking etc.
It just question of time, will DOP and director willing to see still images while grading and waiting for render
Also the program is 1.x @ moment so lots of headroom for improvements
Maybe grading in motion2?
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Well, Motion 2 supports float under Tiger so it could be promising.
I think with the FCP roundtripping, Shake will be a pretty powerful & fast CC tool – When you have set up a script properly with concatenating CC nodes, Shake speeds through the renders.
If I knew more about macros, I’d write a “three wheel” emulator to keep telecine guys happy!
Kasper, can you contact me off list – there is an email link eventually if you follow the link belolw.
Peter
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