what takes longer – Grading in FCP or Color

[Dave Jenkins]

Have you collapsed the multiclip in Final Cut? Color 1.04 doesn’t like multiclip even collapsed. You have to media manage the timeline without the mutliclip angles or when you return from color you will be very unhappy.

Dajen Productions, Santa Barbara, CA
MacPro Two 2.8GHz Quad Core – AJA Kona LHe
FCP 6.0.4 OS X 10.5.5 QT 7.5.5

[Max Huggett]

Hi Hector

Yes, my clip settings are the same. When i made a new sequence and dropped my first clip into it, it asked me if i wanted to make the settings the same as the sequence. I chose yes.

But you highlighted an important point. Collapsing. Until you mentioned it, i never realised that this needed to be done, and when i read up on it and applied it, i can now apply more FCP effects without the need to render.

THanks alot

[Hector Berrebi]

your welcome
🙂

Hector Berrebi
Schibber Group
prePost Consulting

[Chris Davis]

[Max Huggett]

“Hi Hector…

But you highlighted an important point. Collapsing. Until you mentioned it, i never realised that this needed to be done, and when i read up on it and applied it, i can now apply more FCP effects without the need to render…”

Don’t want to hijack the thread, but I’ve wondered about what’s happening when a clip is collapsed. The only way I can understand why a collapsed clip gives more RT is if it is somehow rendered, then the effects are added to the rendered version. I seriously doubt that’s what’s happening. Can someone please explain why a collapsed clip or group of clip gives more RT? Is there a quality hit when adding effects to a collapsed clip?