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Media manager and baking effects
Just can’t seem to find anything on this specific issue.
I have a sequence that I need to deliver to a third party. This sequence has been sent to Color and brought back in FCP 7. I then applied the Neat Video noise removal effect (highly recommend this plug-in) to every clip to clean up the graininess.
I would like to media manage this sequence with the effect “baked” into each clip. I doubt the people I’ll be delivering this to will have Neat video and we’re trying to get the footage looking as good as possible before we send it to be cut. It would also be nice to have handles on everything.
I can’t really seem to figure out a way to do this beyond the brute force method of setting in and out points around each clip and then exporting the sequence and carefully naming everything. This also loses handles. I can drag the clips into the browser and do a batch export, but again, I lose handles and I’m also left with the problem of manually reassembling the sequence.
Thanks for your time.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.2
AE CS4, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 3
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2 Replies
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Graham,
Sounds like this process is a bit cart-before-the-horse. One of the main reasons we generally finish an edit before color correction is, well, what’s the point of correcting and rendering footage you may not use?
That being said, aside from your “brute force” method, there is no way I know of achieving this. I’m assuming the Neat Video plugin is FCP, not Color… (I know very little about Color – new Year’s Resolution 😉 and the FCP filters will copy out with the project file via MM but not bake-in.
Cheers,
StaceApple Certified Trainer
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In addition to what Stace said, the workflow you are proposing Graham ends up with video that has been rendered and re-rendered numerous times, and will be several generations away from the original before it editing even begins. This may sound like a great idea to you, but it’s just fraught with issues. For instance, perhaps you are not aware, but using your workflow, the addition of another color correction pass after the edit will undoubtedly add a fair amount of noise to the video, and furthermore, the dynamic range will be so severely limited that anyone trying to grade the project will have a terrible time doing so.
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