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FCPX and color correction tools
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[Scott Whithaus]”I would rather have BMD decide what Resolve is and focus, versus trying to be everything.”
I recently interviewed BM’s Paul Saccone for a magazine article. You will be pleased to know making a single tool that does edit, grade, sound and finish delivery is exactly what they are focused on doing. Adding collaborative workflow and round tripping to Fusion is exactly that idea of a complete post ecosystem. And there are people and facilities like me that do actually need that total tool set.
You make it sound like a virtue to have a less integrated tool and that somehow Blackmagic lack focus. I can assure you I have never seen focus and intent like they have in Apple, Adobe or Avid, nor their pace of development. Apple of all the developers seem to be the ones who prefer to outsource functionality. If that suits you then fine, but it doesn’t show focus any more than Blackmagic. I would argue that Apple of all the companies has far less focus on fringe software like X and far more focus on gadgets that make them real money.
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[Michael Gissing] “You will be pleased to know making a single tool that does edit, grade, sound and finish delivery is exactly what they are focused on doing. “
Ironically, I’ve shown the Resolve UI to several new users who wanted to edit some basic content. They found it to be very logical and intuitive. Of all the attempts at the all-in-one concept, Resolve is the most fully fleshed out. BMD really is coming up with something the As have never been able to achieve to date. Taking the modal approach seems to be the right direction.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[oliver Peters]”Ironically, I’ve shown the Resolve UI to several new users who wanted to edit some basic content. They found it to be very logical and intuitive.”
GUI seems to be such a subjective area. Whilst there is always a battle between clutter and hidden levels of menu it basically boils down to user familiarity and personal preferences. I know when I first jump on new software I have to work out where functions are hidden or what icon buttons mean or what shortcuts on the keyboard I have to learn.
I sat in front of X the other day, helping an editor to export and xml and had to do exactly that. So my experience is that X was confusing and Resolve isn’t. Useless subjective POV. So when X, A or A editors criticize others GUIs I do not pay much attention.
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[Michael Gissing] “and far more focus on “gadgets” that make them real money.”
Ah, the lovely passive neutral interviewers voice.
“Gadgets” is such a great world for what can be viewed as entries in a category from so many many vendors that have transformed information flow – and in fact, the very world we live in.
Nothing to see here. Just a bunch of gadgets.
Flying the drones,
Delivering the medicine,
Connecting the world.Move on.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
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[Bill Davis]”Ah, the lovely passive neutral interviewers voice.”
I’ve never pretended to be anything but an opinionated old bastard. Perhaps I should choose the Japanese word for technology – Gijutsu although that sounds a lot like gadgets.
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[Scott Witthaus] “[andy patterson] ” Having said that I would not want to change the GUI of Premiere Pro for the GUI of FCPX.”
Oh please, Andy. Didn’t you state that Pr 17 was quite possibly the worst NLE ever? ????”
That was before I invested my hard earned money into FCPX ????
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[Scott Witthaus] “[andy patterson] ” Having said that I would not want to change the GUI of Premiere Pro for the GUI of FCPX.”
Oh please, Andy. Didn’t you state that Pr 17 was quite possibly the worst NLE ever? ????”
That was before I invested my hard earned money into FCPX ????
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The actual color processing that Apple is doing is pretty good. There are a few things within the color board that aren’t common in other color correctors. For instance, you can adjust saturation separately within the three ranges. That’s not unique, but not often found.
Nevertheless, Apple could do a number of relatively simple things within the existing architecture and panel layout of the color board that would improve/enhance the product. Just a few examples:
– Add a UI preference setting to use color wheels in place of the color swatches.
– Add a luma curve window.
– Add temp/tint sliders.
– Add control of the crossovers at lows/mids and mids/highs (like in Symphony and Color Finesse).
– Add a LUT importer effect (separate from the color board).
– Enable control surface support.– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Oliver Peters] “The actual color processing that Apple is doing is pretty good. There are a few things within the color board that aren’t common in other color correctors. For instance, you can adjust saturation separately within the three ranges. That’s not unique, but not often found.”
I agree. The color board is not that bad. It is different but it does have a decent amount of control. I would not want Premiere Pro to have the GUI of FCPX but if Premiere Pro had a color board added I would not be upset about it. Having said that I would not want to have just the color board option like the FCPX users (I know I know buy plugins).
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[andy patterson] “(I know I know buy plugins).”
Which is an utterly silly sentiment for a core component of the application. Even Photos is getting color editing improvements.
https://www.macworld.com/article/3199825/macs/macos-high-sierra-news-features-tips-faq-release.html
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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