Online edit – worth the extra time?

[Michael Lindsay]

The Adrenaline option should be taken if the you are Keying your greenscreen in the Avid. SpectraMatte seems good enough to not bother with treacle slow Ultimatte AdvantEdge.

regards

Michael Lindsay

PS As for Adrenalines CC being good? I wish people would demand the CC improvements that were promised NAB 04 for version 2. I’m not suggesting secondaries are what I need all the time but it would be a start. Worse still is not being able to adjust HSL separately for High, Mid and Shadows. The client wants to reduce saturation in the shadows because there is a dark blue object that needs to be more muted????

You can keep source side correction a Symphony only feature (as well as Limiting) but please give us a couple of secondaries, luminance separation on HSL and a way of defining were the High, Mid and Shadows fall for hue offsets. Is this a lot to ask for?

[Dennis Kutchera]

Some of what you seek is in some of the correction plugins from Digital Film Tools. I also use ColorFix from 3-Prong for a few unique features.

Best Regards,

Dennis Kutchera
Avid COW

[Michael Lindsay]

Thanks Dennis

I have to use thirdparty stuff all the time and I like the latest DFT 55mm stuff alot. What I’d like is some more usefull stuff built right into avid’s own CC. Pinnacle Liquid’s $499 product offers secondaries and other tools missing from Adrenaline. I’m not bashing Adrenaline. It is a great alround tool that need a little extending (with what is quite basic stuff).

regards

Michael Lindsay

[Nina]

Hi everybody,
Thanks for all the help and opinions. I have decided to do the online edit. I started digitizing yesterday and some of the footage that we’ve shot isn’t white balanced, so that alone is probably worth the time to fix. And since I’m planning to do the batch digitizing over a weekend, I’ll be able to get our best playback deck and use the SDI in on the Adrenaline. For Chroma key I’ll probably be using the BCC Chroma Keyer in the Adrenaline – not as fancy as the plugins everone else has, but a step up from using the keyer from ColorFix nested inside the spill killer from the Avid Chroma Keyer – what I’d be using on the Composer. If that doesn’t work, After Effects.

So thanks again. Stay tuned for questions about the online.
Nina

[Charley King]

[Nina] “I started digitizing yesterday and some of the footage that we’ve shot isn’t white balanced, so that alone is probably worth the time to fix.”

There was the real answer to your question. Good luck with the project Nina. In the immortal words of Lindsey Nelson in Airplane, “We’re behind you.”

Charlie