Final Touch

[Jhaughey]

even with its faults.. (and I get XML working with basic motion, distort and crop in the xml in pretty much every format there is in the HD and 2K version (most of the time :)) … I can’t understand why its going so badly for you Walter) its worth the pain over the three way colour corrector any day, the creative licence it opens up to us joe soap FCP editors/compositors/wannebe-colourists is astonishing. I’m loathe to return to the three way corrector in FCP because its a toy compaered to FT.
We’re using the thing every day simply because we get far better results with it….
If you factor in the necessary prep time (couple of hours per half hour episode par example), and we’ve done tons of broadcast stuff with it… you’ll be fine.
Here in London, if you’d see some of the bullshit that other facilities are going through with other similarly placed colouring applications you’d thank God for FT!
In essence its a bit of pain in the ass, but worth it. yet again this might all be moot as they’re more than likely going to reveal something big at NAB… who knows… its been a long day here and now its late……

Joe Haughey
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[Walter Biscardi]

[JHaughey] “even with its faults.. (and I get XML working with basic motion, distort and crop in the xml in pretty much every format there is in the HD and 2K version (most of the time :)) … I can’t understand why its going so badly for you Walter) its worth the pain over the three way colour corrector any day, the creative licence it opens up to us joe soap FCP editors/compositors/wannebe-colourists is astonishing. I’m loathe to return to the three way corrector in FCP because its a toy compaered to FT.”

We’re getting good looks with the 3 Way and we’re getting really nice looks from Colorista. Very similar to what we’re able to achieve with Final Touch.

[JHaughey] “In essence its a bit of pain in the ass, but worth it.”

Nothing is worth losing $10,000 on one job. As I’ve said all along, we’ll re-evaluate after NAB and see what Apple has to show. Doubtful we’ll see something released at the show, I’m expecting something to be previewed though.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
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