[Shian Storm]

I can import 3D .cube LUTs created in Davinci into AE CS6 using it’s Apply LUT function, but cannot import that same .cube LUT into anything support by LUT Buddy. It doesn’t recognize any of the LUT’s exported from Resolve 9.

[Shian Storm]

There are options to record the hdmi out on the Panasonic GH2 HDSLR in prores. It is a clean uncompressed, 8bit 1080 signal. The Atomos Ninja will record it as prores and the results are fantastic.

But with the new hack developments on the GH2, it’s kinda a moot point as you can now record at 150Mb/s on the cards which is a faster data rate than DVCPROHD, and approaching ProRes 422 HQ.

Check out https://www.personal-view.com for details on hack developments, etc. (the site is a forum so it takes a little getting used to how everything is listed before you are able to follow the threads) The latest developments are Orion and Sedna.

[Shian Storm]

The hacks are not ABSOLUTELY necessary. I shot the feature film “Love or War” on an unhacked GH2, and it looks great. It can be graded in After Effects using ColorGHear to minimize the compression artifacting found in all DSLR footage, and produces outstanding results. Granted I hacked the camera afterward, and now I shoot with the Quantum version 9B hack at 150Mb/s and it grades like RED footage. So there are solutions to shooting on a low data rate DSLR.

You can see the results on my reel, most of the footage is from “Love or War”, and 80% of the footage is unhacked GH2.
https://vimeo.com/38173662

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[Shian Storm]

ColrGHear for After Effects does an excellent job of smoothing out skin tones, reducing blemishes, and giving skin a nice glow. https://colorghear.com

[Shian Storm]

Just a tip, but when using AE on big projects I like to convert all footage to image sequences (DPX, TGA, TIFF) it eliminates any codec issues you may have, as well as simplifies the correction process. By that I mean, if you need to change something, you only have to re-render the frames you changed instead of the entire clip, and the footage is automatically updated.

One caveat using TGA with FCP – FCP only utilizes TIFF and DPX sequences as usable footage, it doesn’t (to my knowledge) yet incorporate TGA sequences.

[Shian Storm]

Try using the levels adjustment instead. I stopped using color finesse a few years ago, and only use levels and curves to do color correction. (Levels will give you a histogram.)

While finalizing the composites for ‘The Cell 2’, I was tasked with creating 4 different looks for each scene using After Effects. I did so by applying multiple instances of levels, curves, tint, and hue/saturation and then created animation presets for these so they could be applied to clips individually or as an adjustment layer.

While I don’t have permission to show you that footage, I can show you how those same techniques are used along with masks to create some interesting looks for this music video footage shot with an HVX200

https://outsidethesystem.com/shian/video/CC-musvid.mov

With both levels and curves you have control over each color channel, but the default is RGB so you have to select which channel to tweak from the drop down menu.

[Shian Storm]

I had the same problem and it drove me mad trying to figure out how to fix it. Thought I’d save everyone else the headache.

I searched the net for this problem, and had decided that Mute and Solo don’t work in Final Cut – well, actually, they work fine, unless you don’t know how Final Cut processes audio.

Mute and solo won’t work if you have ANY RENDERED AUDIO in your timeline. What you hear is not coming from the tracks themselves but from the Audio Render files.

Tips to fix.
In render manager delete all your audio preview files.

Try disabling audio on as many tracks as you need to get the active number of tracks down to 5 (depends on your system, some systems can handle less, some more, but on the average…most systems are limited to 5-7).

Try temporarily disabling any foreign format audio (audio that needs to be rendered in order to playback in that specific sequence with those settings)

Try exporting any such audio that needs to be rendered out to an aif file with the same sample rate and timebase settings as your sequence. Then re-import it, and replace the troublesome audio with the aif.

That should fix your problem