Informal Poll: What wants a Bezier shape tool in the Color Corrector?

[Steve Connor]

Of course, why wouldn’t you want one?

Steve Connor
“FCPX Professional”
Adrenalin Television

[David Battistella]

[Steve Connor] “Of course, why wouldn’t you want one?”

Before I create a feedback request for an enhancement, I just like to check in to see if it is something that many people would want.

David

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Heck yes. Along with a “show matte” option for color selections.

[Steve Connor]

[David Battistella] “Before I create a feedback request for an enhancement, I just like to check in to see if it is something that many people would want.
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It would be very useful, I use the other masks all the time

Steve Connor
“FCPX Professional”
Adrenalin Television

[Eric Santiago]

Variable Width Mask Feathering 😉

[T. Payton]

Bezier shape tool for color correction and also a “masks” parameter for every clip. Kinda like cropping but with a bezier.

And tracking off that shape too! One more wish list would be RGB and Luma curves. And oh yeah grading groups.

BTW. I think that a bunch of folks have dismissed the color correction tools in FCP X, mainly because of the color board. But now that my initial reaction has worn off I realized I like it very much and I realize it is very thoughtful. Making hue adjustments has become second nature and can do pretty much everything I did in Color with the exception of tracking (but frankly that didn’t work very well) and custom shapes.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Jason Porthouse]

Agreed, anything that boost the capabilities of the Color board would be great. I too was a bit flummoxed by it at first being a ‘Color’ man, but the more I played with it the more I got to love it. Exposure alone is a powerful tool.

Being able to drag and drop from the inspector to other clips as in 7 would speed things up immeasurably too.

So it’s a ‘yes to all the above’ from me!!

Jason

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[T. Payton]

Something that is probably overlooked is the lack of rendering in FCP X compared to Color. I just did a 20 minute interview project and it would have been laborious and very time consuming to color correct in FCP 7/Color. Because of the quick turnaround in the past I probably would have left it uncorrected. However now in FCP there is no need to render, just color correct and export. A huge time savings, and frankly forcing me to do better work.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Jim Giberti]

[David Battistella] “Does anyone else feel this way?
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immediately, thank you.

[Jim Giberti]

[T. Payton] ” However now in FCP there is no need to render, just color correct and export. “

That and the speed in which you can use multiple secondaries and the real time color correction for all clips are all make finishing much faster IMO.

But a bezier or even pen tool/b-spline would make it really grown-up…and the ability to shut of corrections without returning to the inspector…and the ability to copy individual corrections