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What first? Smoothcam or Color?
Should I smoothcam filter, or send to color first?
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I’d filter it first, color it last. The only catch is that you will probably have to export the clip as a movie after it’s smoothed out, then reimport the QT movie, and then color. My work doesn’t call for a lot of Apple Color work – normally the FCP color corrector is all I need – but when I have used Color I’ve had to use this little workaround quite a bit.
Maybe someone else has some more experience with it?
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If you apply the Smoothcam filter first, you will need to export the clip as a self-contained movie and edit it back into the timeline before you Send to Color.
If you apply the smoothcam filter after, then you can apply the effect to the clip after it has been color corrected.
Myself, I always apply all filters and effects BEFORE I send to Color so Color is the last application to touch the project before it lays back to tape. With filters in FCP, there can sometimes be unwanted changes to your video levels even if the filter has nothing to do with video levels. By making the final pass in Color, FCP does not touch the final timeline other than to master it to tape.
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ya, went with smoothcam first, but then i realized i didnt like most of it. Color at the very end is the path ill take from now on.
thanks!!!
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