[Tom Szymanski]

Okay, here’s the fix we found.

In the Inspector:
Info
Modify RED RAW Settings
Gamma ->change this to Red Gamma

For whatever reason ours was on Red Gamma 3 which produced the blue effect. Color correction in FCPX afterwards seems to work normally and helps bring the shadows back.

I’m sure it’s just a weird workaround, and there’s probably a better way to do it, but it looks like it could work.

[Tom Szymanski]

Thanks for all of the suggestions. We’ll try messing with the footage to get rid of the blues and I’ll submit it to Apple. Good ideas.

Thanks,
Tom

[Tom Szymanski]

Ha! I like the dropping acid answer.

I should have mentioned, we thought it might be the monitor and tried it on an external mac cinema display as well as on the laptop itself and it does the same thing. Good idea though.

[Tom Szymanski]

Yeah, that would have been good to mention. They both have the exact same fonts. That was my first thought, strange font substitution, because it looks like when you open a .psd on a different machine and you don’t have the same font. And it happens on a number of different fonts. On some titles, it shifts their positions randomly too, and shifts them a lot.

[Tom Szymanski]

Thanks for all of the tips. This makes Premiere MUCH better to use.

We’re running it without any special hardware, but we do output it to a JVC NTSC monitor, mainly for color checking.

The presets for volume are pretty cool. My computer geek brother thinks he might be able to help make a script or something to automate some of the functions.

[Tom Szymanski]

Thanks arc nevada. I appreciate the help. I work at a tv station, and someone up the chain said ‘no more macs’, so we bought a couple of souped up dell’s and threw the CS3 production bundle onto them. They integrate very well with the other adobe products which we use heavily, so it was a move for the better probably (FCP is great if you just edit and don’t do so much GFX). I used premiere a few years ago a ton for short film work, but switched to FCP for work.

1. Normalize works great for narration tracks, but for subtle stuff, dropping sfx or music so they’re purposefully lower, it’s not working for me – but it’s great for voices. Is there maybe a way to raise/lower the rubber bands on the timeline without adding keyframes, just raise/lower the whole clip?

2. I’m only seeing waveforms on audio clips, for vid with audio, I’m only seeing the vid (is CS4 different maybe?)

3. kick butt! That works way better than in FCP.

4. Looking forward to it..

5. If you figure out which one, let me know.

6. Great. I figured out how to change the one default. I’ve found having a few at hand is nice though, filters especially.