[Kyler Boudreau]

True, but I don’t like FCP’s color correcting. It would be different if Avid’s color sucked and Apple’s color was something they didn’t have. But you have Apple Color inside Avid – neatly combined with one application.

Saving stuff to conform later – I just don’t have time for that. Now if clients are paying me high hourly rates than sure…why not!

I think the general opinion though is Avid’s color correction is pretty high end. And I’m sure Color is too, but not FCP color.

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[Kyler Boudreau]

yeah, you’re right Shane. I get all of that….but it’s like telling a ProTools guy there was an app out there that meant he never had to conform his sound edits to new picture. everything was automatic….that’s what I had in Avid MC and it spoiled me.

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[Kyler Boudreau]

Thanks – I was wondering if you could put handles similar to exporting OMFs for sound guys.

I’d like to argue however that I’m in fact not doing things wrong. Indie film means you have to prep for test screenings, that directors change their minds and that picture lock really doesn’t happen until you see the DVD at Blockbuster.

Oh wait…then the director’s cut comes out. =)

Whether it is wrong or right, I simply cannot use this process. But FCP is half the price of Avid, so I guess I have to lose something for that trade off.

Thanks for the tips on the other color tools.

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[Kyler Boudreau]

Hey everyone….interesting post. Question for anyone available on this still:

I’m only charging a client $45 an hour for video editing. They gave me some horrible conference footage recently that was low lit. I had to use a grain removal tool in FCP (that they approved) and the render time for that and Color ended up at 170 hours.

I ran the jobs on my only Mac Pro – it is brand new, a six core Westmere using internal disk and more RAM than FCP will ever use. I have a PC laptop that I was able to do some other work on, but the MAC basically crunched for over a week straight.

Is it unfair to charge $20 an hour for the rendering? That is slightly less than half my rate. I think I deserve compensation for the equipment and time and office utils, but I want the bill to be ethical.

THANKS!

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[Kyler Boudreau]

Under Services, put a check mark next to share for the items you want to be able to access (Rendering, Compressor). Then click the button “Options for selected service” and enable as many cores as you want. Due to the way the hyper threading is seen by the OS, you’ll see more cores than you really have. Typically double than you have.

I have not experimented with what percentage performs the best. I think I typically select all instances for sharing.

Also, saw above that you are doing VBR on pass? I’d do CBR man. My testing has shown CBR to smoke VBR one and two pass.

And if you are going from HD to SD, enable the frame control in Compressor. I think that is the 3rd or 4th tab. It is off by default. My testing has shown option one at best, two at default and three at better to be ideal. Someone else suggested that and in comparing them, I can’t get even all best to look better.

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[Kyler Boudreau]

Yeah you’re right – I didn’t give you all of the details. What I’m really trying to do is send an SDI signal to Wirecast for live broadcasting, and wasn’t getting audio. So I was in FCP trying to capture to see if FCP would see the audio….and hit the other wall.

For anyone dealing with audio weirdness, the current (newest) version of Wirecast seems to have an issue with audio via SDI.

For troubleshooting your audio in OSX, the little mapper tool below rocks.

https://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/

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[Kyler Boudreau]

Awesome guys – thanks for the in-depth information. I didn’t realize Final Cut Server wasn’t a “Unity” so that is good to know.

Oh the days when everything was film. I was editing off DVCAM tapes from the lab with microscopic storage requirements. =)

Even rendering in Final Cut seems to take so much space. Avid sort of ingests media and then works with it. But if you take footage through FCP and then Color you get a lot more wasted space it seems.

Again, thanks for all the info….

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[Kyler Boudreau]

If that application works it would be amazing.

Thanks for the input on the rates. I’ve got two systems, but one is a Windows machine so I can’t do editing work while rendering. And you’re right – it isn’t simply a machine rental. It’s more than that.

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[Kyler Boudreau]

Okay, anyone wondering about this plugin – don’t hesitate. AMAZING!!!!!!! If you have grain from low light that you need to get rid of, this is the ticket.

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[Kyler Boudreau]

Okay thanks for the tips. I’ll sharpen some more. Just raised that and it did help…got me to about the same place VP was….so this seems to be a much better option. This way I can correct before color which should end up better right? Someone else mentioned that…I think Rafael.

Do you leave it in standard or work in advanced mode? I’ll watch the video, but all of that color info in advanced is over my head. I’m an editor and newer to FCP on top of that (Avid in the past). This color stuff is confusing. =)

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