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Re. Color Grading: Color, Looks, Color Finesse?
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[Ron Craig] “I could have looked at your signature line! Duh!
I’m going to order it, Walter. Looking forward to it. “
Enjoy!
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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Yes, I too have ordered the DVD. 0:)
“More like a few days.” Well I was aware that it would take some months to master, but I wasnt planning on spending the whole time screaming… Anyway I count my hours in base 28 :p
..but, just how steep is this learning curve? Something tells me theres a fundamental flaw in structure of the program if its really that difficult…
Anyway, thanks guys, best I get on with it, cant sit around here chatting, tho’ Im really pleased to have gotten so much feedback from one post…
Elin
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[Elin grome] “Something tells me theres a fundamental flaw in structure of the program if its really that difficult… “
Nope, it was designed for Unix and it was designed for Colorists, not editors. So it has a completely foreign interface and way of operation for those of us used to the very easy layouts of most Mac based programs. Add those two factors together and you’ve got something that makes no sense when you first start to use it, but then becomes incredibly simple once you understand it.
The application has been around for about four years or so as Final Touch where it was priced at $1,000 – $25,000 depending on the version. It’s only been an Apple product for about 18 months and the biggest fundamental flaw I’ve seen is people who try to dive right in and then complain it doesn’t operate like other Mac applications. I hope it never does, it works extremely well exactly as the interface runs now.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
Read my Blog!
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I LOVE Looks and wouldn’t edit without it any more. I have dabbled in Color but honestly find it too confusing and cumbersome when most of the color grading I do is fairly simple and I need to be able to move very quickly.
I really like that there is an extensive list of preset effects, but that you can apply anything individually for the effect you want. For me, it’s the best $399 I ever spent – it has saved me hours and days of work since I bought it in January after seeing it at a videographer’s convention. In less than a minute I can correct virtually any clip that I have – probably nothing I couldn’t do by applying multiple filters in FCP or by diving through a few “rooms” in color – but it just isn’t cost-effective for me to take that time.
The person that I learned about Looks from had just won more awards than I could count that week for her wedding videography, and her work is beautiful – so it really inspired me to reach for more in the color grading world.
I will give the caveat that you need a bit of processing power to use it quickly – my new (6 months old) 2.8ghz iMac 4g memory handles it like lightning, but my older G5 struggles to display the video and takes a bit more patience.
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[Miriam Moran] “The person that I learned about Looks from had just won more awards than I could count that week for her wedding videography, and her work is beautiful – so it really inspired me to reach for more in the color grading world. “
Looks is good for just that, creating a quick look using a preset filter. For actual color grading, you want to know how to create those “looks” yourself and go much further than any preset. Once you feel comfortable enough with Looks, go back to Color. It’s incredibly simple to use once you get the hang of it, and soon enough you’ll surpass anything you can create in Looks.
But for quick and simple projects, definitely Looks would probably work for you. Hopefully it doesn’t have the same upgrade bug as Colorista which we used to use, but gave that up after the issues that bug caused.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
Read my Blog!
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Hi Mirian,
MB Looks may be the application that produces the most beautiful color inside FC. In the other hand is very limited as a CC application.
If you learn how to work with Looks you will have to stick with Looks. If you learn how to work with Color you will be able to work with any main CC application and even to get much more from Looks.
Cheers,
rafael
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