COLORISTA DEMO AT LAFCPUG
I gave a demonstration of Red Giant's Magic Bullet Colorista in Las Vegas at NAB...in the Superbooth on the show floor. Now, this wasn't as packed as I'd have liked to have seen it, so for people in the Los Angeles area, I will be doing the demo again, this time at the next LAFCPUG MEETING.
If you can't make it to that, I understand. Either you don't live here, or you are pretty far away, or you have to work. Well, they record the meetings and are SUPPOSED to post them online somewhere. I'll look into that. I will also see about doing a screen capture of my demo and see if I can post that.
The basic gist is that Colorista gives you far better control of the colors that the built in 3-way color corrector does, and is far easier to use than Apple's COLOR. No need to prep the timeline (no stills, not speed changes, all frame rates and codecs matching) and send to Color...and get lost in an interface designed for colorists. You can color correct in FCP with familiar looking tools, and even have Secondaries and the ability to highlight specific areas and only affect those areas (Power Windows).
There will be other people at the meeting too. "Patrick Woodward from DigitalFilm Tree will show off FCP workflow and footage with the Canon EOS 5D. Michael Weis and Sam Crutsinger will be reviewing the RED workflow they used shooting the indie road feature 'Carried Away.'" So if you have that Canon still camera that shoots video and want to know how to edit it, or you want to look at a RED workflow (there are SO many), then come on down.
8 comments:
I would love to see your demonstration of how you use Colorista in your workflow. Specifically, how do you deal with the issue of Colorista clipping whites? To my knowledge, this has not been fixed yet. I've seen a couple of workarounds on the CC forums but would be very interested in hearing your take on this. THX
Yeah...still there.
I use the PROC AMP to bring down the whites, then apply Colorista.
I really liked Colorista when I reviewed it for Videomaker at version one.
I found it to be that great combination of extremely powerful and very easy to use.
I haven't had a chance to try out the latest version, has it's capability to do secondaries improved?
The secondaries appear to be the same. They now call them POWER MASKS.
Looking forward to your tutorial, Shane!
Thanks for the great demo tonight at LAFCPUG. I'm purchasing Colorista.
Shane, please do post that screencap tutorial asap.
Thanks for the kind words.
Sorry, but I don't have the video. I had...issues...with my demo early on (I will be writing about that) and I had to restart, and since I was a bit flustered and was trying to solve the issue, I did not restart the capture, so all I have is the "this is what Color looks like, and why, if you are not a Colorist, you might want to avoid using it" part.
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