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Has anyone else noticed this? Game over, great job by Apple.
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[Robert Bracken] “I didn’t know that there were presets in the Color Correction window. I learn something new everyday.”
I can recommend both Lynda.com and Ripple training. Takes the pain out of learning new software.
As for the colour presets – they’re cute, but fairly basic.
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It’s useful in that you can save your CC as a ‘grade’, but it doesn’t include shape data (so no vignettes or selective CC) and the list becomes pretty long and unwieldy if you’ve a lot to correct. To be truly useful the presets need to save shape and mask data, and Apple need to make it so you can copy corrections (either one or multiple) from clip to clip. I know you can ‘paste attributes’ but this takes all filters, crop and mask, and unlike 7 you can’t choose. So making it simpler has made my job harder. Hoping this is addressed in a future revision…
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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i dont understand ! Why is it game over ?
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The fact that this is a default adjustment built into every clip is pretty cool- but it does seem limited, and the fact that there’s a preset called “Alien Lab” gets me thinking again about X’s iMovie roots… 😛
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Game over?
This is a rudimentary implementation of a good idea.
When Apple allows keyframing, bezier masks, independent presets, and grade comparison within the window then it will begin catch up to professional grading.
It’s nice, it’s fast, I use it all the time, it’s very limited compared to what it should be in 2012.
It’s been there since the program was introduced.
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I don’t know why I said “game over.” But, Apple has done an amazing job of simplifying the editing process.
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While I appreciate anything that can make tasks easier I have to say that the editing process is neither simple or simplfyable (I made that word up and so I really hope I spelled it right.) Anything that helps with organization is great. And I have always said that editing is 90% organization. But that is really just organization and applicable to any given subject. It’s really the remaining 10% that defines the editing process.
Tim
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I’d really really really like to know how it is fast. This is the slowest clunkiest editor I’ve ever used. I’m giving it a whirl on what should be it’s bread and butter. A testimonials project. Lots to log. Works great for organization and logging. Although you need multiple event windows. Like premiere sorta. But all this grouping and connecting only makes for a good practiced demonstration. I don’t need to be breaking apart and reconnecting. I don’t need workarounds to make split edits. I don’t need 3rd party plugins for a drop shadow on an alpha channel graphic. And I’m blown away that there isn’t a soft edged crop. You STILL apparently can’t copy and paste keyframes. Probably the first thing I complained about in FCP 1.x. But now, you can’t even paste attributes.
FCP X is kinda like Android. I actually thought it was better than it was until I tried it.
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[Bret Williams] “I’d really really really like to know how it is fast.”
My post was specifically about the limited but fast secondaries in the color board. It was hardly a ringing endorsement kind of a post .
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You’re right. My bad. I do like the grading part myself. I really don’t’ expect a NLE to be DaVinci. Especially DaVinci is free for 1080 material and less. And it is a completely viable roundtrip solution. Much more so than Color was. Of course Color could’ve been the industry standard, but then there’s that EOL’d issue.
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