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Thoughts on Synthetic Aperture?
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This has been a great thread.
I wonder what the plans are with the Silicon Color Purchase. I wonder if this will become:
1. An add on Color Corrector to FCP,
2. Stand alone APPLE app
3. A Bundle with FC EXTREME.It’s hard to say, but it looks like Apple is lining FCP up against the most high end work stations with Shake, Motion and now his powerfull CC tool.
I like the ONE RENDER, no import export approach to a plug in based module, but Final Touch could be a serious stand alone app when it is fully intgrated (like if they built conforming and recapturing right in to the app).
The big drag is all of this duplicated media. It would be nice to see a non destructive approach to color correction as they do with Audio in soundtrack, just stacking layers and effects in history and no need for renders. (I know that it means making everything Real Time, but it is just an awful fact that you have to capture a terabyte, then render a terabyte to output a show. It doubles all of the storage requirements.
Sure, storage is cheap, but time is more valuable and if the machines could push out these TIMELINES in realtime instead of just the shot for shot GPU appraoch, it would be a much more effiecient appraoch.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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Plus the reconform issue will be easier. I have not found a nice way to tell a client “lock picture
before we start any color correction because we can’t just change the timeline in FCP and
automatically color correct your change in FT” That is a big issue, unless you guys know a
method I am not aware of.Some of these crazy clients want to make changes all the way before the last second of mastering to tape.
I think that is the biggest draw back with FT right now.A stand alone FinalTouch app with automatic updates according to your timeline in FCP would be awesome!
Stuart Ferreyra
Timecode Multimedia
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Santa Monica, CA 90025
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This all comes back to the inferior FCP Media Manager and the “not so striaght ahead” approach to reconenecting media files in FCP. The program still gets ithcy if it doesn’t see the media it was originally given.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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Whats Up Walter,
Color Finese 2 is working fine for me. I use it as a plug in for FCP, and it’s responsive and fast (DP 2Ghz G5). Not sure if the MacPro is the reason why you’re seeing slower performance. Maybe not optimized?? Dunno.
I color correct mainly with FCP’s 3-Way CC and use CF2 for more complex shots that require a little more attention.
You get RT output to an external monitor via Kona and changes are seen in real time.
Only downfall: requires rendering, and view option needs to be toggled after using CF for Kona to get control again.I would like to spring for the external control surface, but I’ll wait to see what Apple does with Final Touch.
Overall, in a broadcast environment, I am very happy with Color Finesse.
Ron
RIOT Productions
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[Timecode Multimedia] “Plus the reconform issue will be easier. I have not found a nice way to tell a client “lock picture
before we start any color correction because we can’t just change the timeline in FCP and
automatically color correct your change in FT” That is a big issue, unless you guys know a
method I am not aware of.”That’s easy, depending on how many shots you have. I just pull the new shots out into a new timeline, shoot that over to FT via XML and bring the shots back to FCP. Re-insert the newly CC’d shots in the timeline and master.
With Apple now in control of the app, expect to see much tighter integration of the two and I’m sure this very type of issue will be addressed.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[ronnyron] “Not sure if the MacPro is the reason why you’re seeing slower performance. Maybe not optimized?? Dunno.”
I am using the Intel version of it and I’m not sure if it feels slow because Final Touch is so fast or if it’s still buggy, it is a beta at the moment.
Thanks for the overall report, good to hear from someone using it in a broadcast environment.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[walter biscardi] “With FCP you need to constantly double click the clip into the Viewer to bring up the filter to work on a shot.”
Set your ganging to “Open” and the shot will open in the viewer when the play head is over it in your timeline.
Arnie
Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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[Arniepix] “Set your ganging to “Open” and the shot will open in the viewer when the play head is over it in your timeline.”
Yeah, Wayne Carey reminded me of that feature over on the FCP forum. Totally forgot that was even there. Thanks!
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Wally,
You are up to late.
Give me a call.
david
Peace and Love 🙂
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Wally,
You are up to late.
Give me a call.
david
Peace and Love 🙂
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