Michael Hancock
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I’m still running Blackmagic drivers 10.4.3 on OS 10.11.5, FCPX version 10.2.3. It’s the most stable drivers I’ve found so far.
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[Bill Davis] “It’s not a restrictive system. no matter how you try to cast it as that. In practice, it’s the complete opposite of restrictive.
“I would add to that, it’s not a restrictive system in exactly the same way as all other NLEs are not restrictive. Because none of them are, really. It’s just a matter of how you use them.
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Oliver sent me his test images since I have a late 2015 5K iMac at home, and I’m seeing the exact same thing he is. I opened the clip in 4 NLEs (FCPX, PremiereCC2015, Resolve 12.5.3 Beta, Media Composer 8.3), set the viewers to 100%, pulled a screen grab and layered them in Photoshop to compare.
- FCPX appears brighter with less saturation than Media Composer, Resolve, or Premiere. It looks like a gamma shift.
- Media Composer has slightly less contrast than Resolve and Premiere and slightly lifted blacks.
- Premiere and Resolve appear identical.
I’m feeding the images to a Flanders monitor via SDI and that output appears identical across all NLEs.
Anyone that wants to see how they compare can download my Photoshop file.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7sw1v6cy19i63y8/5K%20iMac%20Late%202015%20100%20percent.psd?dl=0
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Michael Hancock
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Glad it worked! And I highly recommend the LutCalc app. It’s quite fantastic and ridiculously cheap.
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Michael Hancock
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You may be able to make your own:
https://cameramanben.github.io/LUTCalc/
Set the camera to FS7, your Rec Gamma and Gamut, then output Gamma and Gamut. Name your LUT, set the LUT type to FCPX and generate.
I don’t have any FS7 footage to test it with, but below is an FS7 S-Log S-Gamut3.cine to Rec709 LUT I generated with it (3D 32x32x32 LUT). I also don’t have a way to test it in FCPX right now so it may not work, or it may look awful. If you test it, let me know if it works.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jsz6co9bwpiurba/Sony_FS7_SLog_to_Rec709.cube?dl=0
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Michael Hancock
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I have the latest 5K iMac. I can load the clip into FCPX and Premiere CC and take screen shots for you if you want.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “In my experience, editing serendipity comes to your aid more effectively when you haven’t over-compartmentalised your material and/or your workflow. I have watched too many editors organise their material to death and lose all the random benefits of a looser organisational structure.
In a sense, my argument for better search is also an argument for more relaxed, less heavy-handed organisation.”
That’s one of things that I’ve come to like so much about FCPX . You can have the best of both worlds.
You can drop all of your footage in an Event, then compartmentalize it into keyword collections to organize it to death. This is useful to me because if I know I’m looking for some b-roll of a boat I can go directly to the keyword collection “Boat” to very quickly narrow my search, without having to remember that I should search for “Boat”. I just twirl down the event and I have a list of keywords to choose from. I find this very helpful in the event that I have to hand off my project to someone else, or revisit it in 6 months. I don’t have to remember exactly how I tagged everything so I can accurately search for stuff. And they can, at a glance, find very specific groups of files without having the learn how I tagged everything (VO, Music, Graphics, Lower Thirds, Logos, Pictures, etc…).
But anytime I want to look for a file in context of all other files I just select the Event and all that organization goes away. At that point, it’s just a massive bit bucket. Add in a Smart Collection to automatically start grouping stuff based on what you’re working on and it makes it relatively easy to find your clips while still giving you a general overview of all of your material. Now as I’m working and becoming more and more familiar with the material the need for detailed organization goes aways, but again – someone new to the project would benefit from it. Or revisiting it months down the road.
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[Robin S. Kurz] “And really… a measly $79 (if that were the case) for THAT powerful of an app? That’s a problem? Seriously?
“Cost is relative. If you’re making $3,000 a month it’s less than 3% of your take home pay. If you’re monthly income is $700, it’s more than 11%.
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Thanks for being the guinea pig! I’m still running driver 10.4.3 on OS 10.10.5 as it’s been the most stable for me, and it still works with FCPX, Premiere, AE, and Resolve.
Are you on El Cap, by any chance?
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Michael Hancock
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I just picked one up (refurb, through Apple).
I went with the 27 inch with the upgraded i7 processor, upgraded graphics card (4GB 395x), and a 512GB SSD. It’s a fantastic little machine. I still need to buy more RAM for it (it came with 16GB), but so far I’ve been incredibly happy with it.
I highly recommend it.
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Michael Hancock
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