PP CS6 test drive

[David Cherniack]

[Morten Ranmar] ” I do miss the simplicity of secondary color grading with masks in FCPX”

You can do secondary grading with the 3-way in Premiere. That and the masks effect are CUDA (and I believe OpenCL) real time. Or you can shoot DPXs or an EDL of your clip into Speedgrade.

David
AllinOneFilms.com

[Lance Bachelder]

Yeah but the “new” 3 way CC still kinda sucks. It’s nice to have tracks etc. but you get spoiled in FCPX by just clicking on a clip and having all the color and other controls instantly available.

Lots of mixed feeling about Premiere CS6 – definitely not as excited as I was before NAB. I’ve also had Premiere crash as well as Speedgrade – this was on a Win7 machine. Haven’t spent much time yet on Mac version. Gonna give it some time…

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California

[Aindreas Gallagher]

at least its not a square? – I kind of dig it liking colorista as I do – I think its a bit inspired by colorista. plus if dynamic link works like people say it does, I’m going to be walking next door to AE like its another room for most stuff.

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http://www.ogallchoir.net
promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Michael Gissing]

Don’t forget Speedgrade is also just across the street. Not quite next door yet and lacking output via a Kona/Decklink/Matrox but moving closer soon I expect.

[Lance Bachelder]

Yeah very underwhelmed by Speedgrade – it’s no Color or DaVinci – just bizarre how lacking it is at certain things.

But love Colorista as well and have no prob working with 3rd party plugs if necessary.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California

[Lin Sebastian kayser]

Hi Lance,

can you describe what you feel SpeedGrade is lacking?

Thanks,
Lin
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Lin Sebastian Kayser – Adobe SpeedGrade Engineering Director – Founder of IRIDAS

[Aindreas Gallagher]

good lord, but of course.

with adobe, a bloke voices an issue with speedgrade, then there is a bang noise, a puff of smoke, and the speedgrade engineer is standing beside them with a polite listening face on.

surreal.

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http://www.ogallchoir.net
promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Mike Molenda]

I’d certainly like to hear other opinions on SpeedGrade, particularly from experienced colorists. Right now I feel like the biggest omission is the SORE lack of any sort of batch output.

So if I’m grading a finished sequence, there’s no way to keep the structure of my cut intact after grading. From what I understand it comes out as a single video. Never mind adding handles to the clips.

Or if I’m doing first light technical grades on dailies, I’ve got to wait until the previous one is rendered before I can grade the next?

I feel like I should be mistaken on this, and I hope someone can prove me wrong. If not, it’s a high priority request for when they open the SpeedGrade wish list!

I do like the interface, I feel like I was able to get to a point where I could use it quickly and comfortably after just a few hours of screwing around. I also like that it seems they made several mouse/keyboard/tablet accommodations for graders without access to a control surface. They’re not perfect, but it’s nice to know they’re thinking of such things.

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Lin Sebastian Kayser] “Lin Sebastian Kayser – Adobe SpeedGrade Engineering Director – Founder of IRIDAS”

Hey,

I was wondering on how I should be working with transitions (cross dissolves) when sending the timeline as DPX footage from Premiere. When we use Lustre we just render out the necessary heads and tails on the dissolvable clip and put them in place manually. Speedgrade renders the dissolve as it’s own clip but it doesn’t help because you can’t “dissolve” the grade. Or can you? The EDLs work great when using the original footage clips.

[Lin Sebastian kayser]

Hi Mike,

You can simply use metadata as part of your file and folder structure. There is an “M” button that opens up a tree of metadata fields. Simply insert elements of your file’s source path to preserve your original file/folder structure (or create a new one).

For example

{PathElement.2}/{PathElement.1}/{PathElement.0}

Will create files in subfolders using the original file and two subfolder names, for example.

More info on the old IRIDAS help page at:

https://doc.iridas.com/index.php/Advanced_Output_File_Name_Specification_for_Rendering

Hope this helps,
Lin

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Lin Sebastian Kayser – Adobe SpeedGrade Engineering Director – Founder of IRIDAS