Matt Sandström
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yeah, copying and pasting always causes problem. download the plugins from my homepage instead. they work fine, both the color balance posted in this thread and the new 3-way color balance.
/matt
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as long as you don’t use the delete unused media function you should be able to relink without problem. i’ve done it a million times. it’s when you use delete unused that it becomes really confusing. especially if you have media without timecode in your project, like aif’s.
/matt
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ok, i did it without waiting for your feedback and it’s now included in the free download on my homepage. check it out.
(and please don’t forget to consider making a small donation if you want me to keep doing this)
/matt
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try this. save as a text file in your plugins folder. if it works the way you expected for the entire range i’ll add the shadows, mids and highs controls.
/matt
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ok, i’m on it. stay tuned. what you want is to be able to select shadows, midtones, highlights or “all”, as well as not get the saturation reduction when you reduce a color but rather an increase of ther other two, is that correct?
/matt
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the color balance filter that’s been in fcp since 1.2 might seem like the rgb filter you don’t want, but i think it’s pretty much exactly what you’re after.
/matt
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select the “color correction” layout preset and the scope window will appear. it will let you see how the image data looks, where the black and white level is for the different channels and so on. it’s hard to explain exactly how to use it but you’ll figure it out. find a scene with a neutral palette, tweak and observe how the graphs change. good luck.
/matt
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use the scopes. much easier than looking at the image. the rbg parade will tell you exactly what is wrong and how to fix it if you learn to use it. use the shadows and highlights controls first before you touch the mids.
/matt
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you can drag multiple images and clips to the timeline and you can set the default length on imported stills. the scale to sequence command will make them all shrink to fit. i don’t think you can add transitions this way though.
“would the still images NOT be subject to DV25 compression during the compressor session? Does the same hold true for lower thirds and other graphics?”
correct. if you’ve rendered your timeline i’m not sure though, so don’t.
/matt
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i’ve no idea what automate to timeline means but if you tell us exactly what you’re trying to do i think i can help. i’ve done several projects like this before. as for codecs i think you should use dv for maximum realtime performance. if you render to mpeg using compressor it will pass uncompressed data anyway without pre rendering.
/matt