Brett Sherman
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I feel like we’ve been over this ad nauseum. Why choose the Photos example and not Logic X? There are a LOT more parallels between Logic X/Garageband and FCP X/iMovie than Aperture/Photos. When Apple folds Logic X into Garageband then we should be concerned. Until then these are just paranoid ramblings.
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I got it only for the White Balance adjustment. It works quite well, better than many other ones. You adjust the Kelvin offset, so it doesn’t deal with other color casts. For those situations I use Hawakai Auto Grade which gives you a dropper.
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Thanks for writing the most well-thought out post on this thread. 🙂
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I made a Shadow-Highlight Motion Effect that can often pull detail out of quashed highlights by adjusting the highlight gamma. Often you need to pull down the saturation control also.
You can download it with some other things I made here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19546472/BrettsFX.zip
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This makes Slice X that much more attractive. I may have to actually buy it now. 🙂 Nice work CoreMelt. This now makes my short list of must have plug-ins for FCP X.
ColorFinale
NeatVideo
Lock n Load
Slice X/Track X
CoreMelt Editors Tools
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[TImothy Auld] “MS rules in big companies. Period.”
In our organization everyone wants Macs, but the IT department doesn’t allow them to get Macs without some sort of special exemption. Our floor, communications, is the only one that gets Macs. Everyone is jealous of us.
The real stranglehold is IT departments trying to make life easy for themselves, if it were based on efficiency and the desire of the actual workers there would be a different reality.
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I’m always puzzled why everyone wants to compare Aperture to what may happen to FCP X instead of Logic X. If Apple kills Logic X, then you have to worry. Until that time, CTFD.
Professional photo management is a fairly limited market. Especially non-networked single-user photo management which is what Lightroom and Aperture are. It’s also not a very complex program, really just a database with mild editing features. And Apple doesn’t have an image editing program like Adobe does to tether it to. I think it may be just a business decision that doesn’t portend anything about FCP X or Logic X.
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According to Imagineer, “Mocha is not trying to replace the big 3D camera trackers out there.” But you’re right the full Mocha has some light camera tracking capabilities, though not implemented in SliceX or Track X. And not all scenes lend themselves to planar tracking. I just wonder how they would implement that in a simplified interface. It certainly would be useful, if not applicable in all applications.
On the example you showed, moving around a 3D title needs 3D camera data. So you either need a 3D camera tracker (like what’s in AE and not in Motion) or you do “fake” 3D camera tracking, which is picking a point in the scene, tracking it, and moving your 3D title in reference to that point with a stationary camera, guessing the focal length of the lens. That works in some instances, but for more complicated motions it doesn’t work. You’ll notice all the examples have a single motion to them without panning, and there isn’t any orbiting. I often track handheld shots. This method usually fails with that situation.
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Interesting. For it to work well, it would have to be a full 3D camera tracker, which is not something Mocha tracking is set up to do. I wonder if it would be a whole new plug-in. I’d buy it pretty quick as I’m tired of having to go out to AE to do camera tracking.
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Ahh. Would have made more sense in the effect stack then the actual Color Board. Or at least have the option there also, but I’ll take it.