Kim Krause
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you want the best quality, but you can’t afford to pay for it? sounds like you’re expecting way too much. why not just grade in color then export to tape…..someone really likes you if you’re getting all this for free…..too bad it kills it for the rest of us trying to make a living from our craft. good luck! maybe i’ll send my clients your way for free work!
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and render times on a mac?
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i’m more curious how easy it will be to import a FCP project into Resolve, then spit it back out to FCP. seems to me as if Resolve is only a stndalone grading tool. nothing more than a software version of the current davinci which doesn’t integrate with FCP or Avid at all. i imagine you would have to export a quicktime movie then import it into Resolve. do you think apple would really allow for any competition in its workflow. i love the ability to send a graded project back into an editting environment where you can then finish your online with graded shots and efx and titles and layers. bringing in RED footage and grading is okay but you can do that with color and its basically free so what’s the big deal and how would you go about importing files from XDCam for instance? lots of hype and lots of questions. i’ll reserve judgement for now.
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and just how much would anyone be willing to pay for a so called davinci lite? remember color is free with the fcp suite so it is still the best bang for your buck color correction app out there. been using it professionally for years and it hardly ever lets me down. now if i had a few grand to throw around then that would be a different scenario but in these tough economic times you gotta make do with what you have sometimes.
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why is this a good thing?….davinci has been in trouble for years and probably couldn’t wait to find a buyer. they have stagnated while others have moved in. and don’t think the BMD aquisition will mean a cheaper davinci. there are alot of really good color correction systems out there, each with it’s own strength. my big criticism of davinci of late has been its horrible user interface. what they really needed was a complete overhaul of their panels and usablility. just look at pogle. they realized early on that a graphics tablet should be part of a grading suite. the reason other systems have become so popular is they listen to what clients want from a color correction system. davinci were always so smug. i’ll stick to nucoda, pogle and even color over a davinci anyday…good luck black magic, i hope you know what you’re doing buying that old dinosaur.
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interesting insight, but i must say i disagree. for 30 years i worked for other people and whenever there was a screw up with anything (and there always can be!) the big song and dance would start, followed by the finger pointing. well i have to say i no longer am ever in that situation. why ?? because my very first contact with the client is all about what to expect and being perfectly honest. i dont make false promises and there lies some of the biggest pitfalls. i never got caught up in the “client is always right” trap and have even told a few that they are wrong. my honesty is always appreciated and most even return. we all know the world could end at anytime or our plane might crash and burn so let’s not not get so caught up in this self sacrificing attitude. you are only denying your self. make proper plans, build in r oom for error and above all tell the client….this may take a while! ever go to a dentist and NOT hear “this may hurt a bit”. of course not ..he will always tell you the worst case scenario, then when he’s done and your still alive and realize it wasn’t so bad, you thank him for a job well done. since working for myself i vowed never to get caught up in the b.s. that eats up our industry. we all have had to work late and work hard and work smart but you can’t always win….and guess what? life goes on.
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if you look abit closer, you’ll see its not the scopes thats the problem…its the way video comes into color. read the above and you see in rgb its fine…therefore its the yuv conversion.depending on your settings and what format your using. you can double check this by correcting the bars and then sending them to tape then looking at the result through a “real” scope. so dont blame the scopes….the whole point of color correcting is to “take crap and make it art”, so if its beautiful on the screen and beautiful when you send it back to fcp then you’ve done your job. scopes shouldnt be a crutch, just a tool.
those are my thoughts….btw the funny “save in color thing” just went away and everything is back to normal. i’ve also been very successful in bringing avid projects into fcp/color with the duck and back and i have to say that for my clients and their budgets this is still one of the best solutions by far.