OT: What Professional Black Friday toys are you buying?

[Craig Seeman]

Toolfarm has a big list of plugins. Some FCPX compatible.

https://www.toolfarm.com/blog/entry/the_black_friday_cyber_monday_2014_sales_list

[David Mathis]

Looking at purchasing an LED light kit from B&H Photo, was hoping Fusion would be available for Mac OS X at the moment, will have to wait.

Looking at the some of the LUT offerings from Color Grading Central as well.

[Craig Seeman]

[David Mathis] “Looking at purchasing an LED light kit from B&H Photo”

Anything in particular? I was thinking of iKan ID508 v2 but I’m also looking at DigitalJuice MiniBurst 504. Light weight counts for my portable kit and so far nothing seems liter than the DJ MiniBurst 504 but, alas, it’s not one of today’s Black Friday options. I’m hoping they’ll have it on sale before end of year though. iKan is not on sale either.

Genaray and Bescor are on sale but I have issues with them.

Genaray
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1031518-REG/genaray_spectroled_outfit_500_bi_color.html

Bescor
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1006923-REG/bescor_led_700k_beled_700_2_light_ac_kit.html

[David Mathis]

Was looking at Bescor but will consider other options.

Just purchased Rampant Design Tools Flash Transitions and Reflections two days ago.

[Michael Gissing]

I trialled the Boris Continuum 9 in Resolve. I then bought it with the Black Friday discount. There seems a sudden rush to port plugins to open FX for Resolve. I am also waiting for the 30% discount touted for Red Giant Universe to buy a perpetual license, again as they have ported to Resolve.

I also jumped in and bought Flicker free from Digital Anarchy as they had a Halloween special discount. So suddenly a lot of shortcomings in using Resolve as a finishing tool have been sorted. Flicker free was seriously helpful with a problematic stop motion animation series I was finishing.

[Craig Seeman]

[Michael Gissing] “I am also waiting for the 30% discount touted for Red Giant Universe to buy a perpetual license, again as they have ported to Resolve. “

Interesting as I just spotted this. RedGiant year end sale. It’s one day only for December 9th.

https://www.redgiant.com/blog/2014/11/26/sale-our-40-off-sale-is-coming-dec-9/

Folks – Don’t fall victim to Black Friday or Cyber Monday! Save your money… for just a little while longer.
On December 9, 2014, we are having our Red Giant Year-End Sale. Here’s what you need to know:
40% off everything in the redgiant.com store.
24 Hours Only!
Sale Starts: 12/9/14 – starting at 08:00 AM PST.
Sales ends: 12/10/14 at 08:00 AM PST
The sale discount is for everything in the Red Giant store: Full licenses, upgrades, and academic store (which is already 50% off)
Includes suites and individual products. 40% off EVERYTHING. Really. We mean it.
How to Get 40% off: There will be a coupon code – it will be all over our site. You won’t be able to miss it.

[David Mathis]

[Michael Gissing] “I trialled the Boris Continuum 9 in Resolve. I then bought it with the Black Friday discount. There seems a sudden rush to port plugins to open FX for Resolve. I am also waiting for the 30% discount touted for Red Giant Universe to buy a perpetual license, again as they have ported to Resolve.”

Was very excited by the news. Just started up the monthly plan again. Hoping there is a way to upgrade to lifetime from rental.

Looking forward to that big sale, no crowds to fight and no two mile long line to wait in.

Side note: Hoping that Fusion for Mac OS X will be out before Christmas, that would be sweet!

[Steve Connor]

[David Mathis] “Side note: Hoping that Fusion for Mac OS X will be out before Christmas, that would be sweet!
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Not a chance, will be lucky if it’s next Xmas

[Craig Seeman]

My hunch, we might see a “preview” at NAB with maybe a public beta target date announced.

[Tom Sefton]

Epic Dragon, L series glass, some plugins, some G studio Raids and a partridge in a pear tree!