Fcp 5.1.4 Released!

BenB said:
That'd be a nice demo if you used the FCP 3-Way color corrector properly, rather than just slide some stuff around...
BenB, please show me what I'm doing wrong. Later in the video I try to gently crush my blacks, but with the striong blue tint I desire in the shadows I can't get black blacks. As I mentioned in the comments in that blog posting, I get much better results with FCP's RGB Balance effect. I'll admit that I don't spend much time in the vid trying to finesse the FCP 3-way, but that doesn't mean I haven't spent a long time struggling with it in the past. I'd love to be shown how to get better results from it, because not every FCP station I sit down at has Colorista.

I certainly realize that Colorista won't be everyone's new favorite thing, but one thing I hope people understand is that the way things work with Red Giant and The Orphanage is that we at The O design something that we need, we use it internally for a while, and eventually RGS takes a look at it and decides if it should become a product. So the design doesn't come out of some hypothetical "maybe this would sell," it comes out of a real-world need based on our travels in the worlds of high-end telecine and film/video post.

As always, I'm very interested in any suggestions about how to make it better.

-Stu
 
I am sure people can get good results using both the 3-way and Colorista. I purchased Colorista and did one comparison with the 3-way that really impressed me. I redid the "creating artificially high contrast" exercise at pages 423-426 of the APTS Advanced Color Correction and Effects book and then compared the results with the final version of the clip provided in the tutorial footage. The colors were completely falling apart in the 3-way "after" clip, but they were quite nice in the Colorista corrected version I did. (Keep in mind that the "after" clip was done by the author of the book, who has much better CC chops than I do, I'm sure.) Each of the tools of course will have its pros and cons, but this is one area where I thought Colorista really shined.

My hope, though, is that there will be new color correction tools in FCP 6 that will blow away both the 3-way corrector and Colorista.
 
kwoff said:
My hope, though, is that there will be new color correction tools in FCP 6 that will blow away both the 3-way corrector and Colorista.

Apple did out right buy up Final Touch, didn't they?
 
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