| | | | Re: Apple Color Quits on Open by Zachary Silver on May 4, 2012 at 10:00:05 pm in the Apple Color Forum UPDATE: After taking a look at other Color projects I've worked on in the past, I've found that most of them also have this issue. Must have something to do with the relocation of the render folder... I don't really know what that was about. Any idea | | | | |
| | | | Re: Apple Color Quits on Open by Zachary Silver on May 4, 2012 at 9:43:00 pm in the Apple Color Forum Hi Joseph, I removed all the title clips and it worked out fine. But now I have an even bigger issue, which maybe should be a new thread, but you seem very knowledgable on the topic so I thought I'd ask you...
I color graded my entire project yester | | | | |
| | | | Re: Apple Color Quits on Open by Joseph Owens on May 3, 2012 at 1:59:22 pm in the Apple Color Forum I think last week there was a poster complaining of garbled output, which would be a different manifestation of what is sometimes the same problem -- something unsupported in the FCP sequence.
At this point, you should divide the sequence into seg | | | | |
| | | | Re: Apple Color Quits on Open by Zachary Silver on May 3, 2012 at 1:56:30 am in the Apple Color Forum Hi Joseph,
Color is able to open any previous projects I've made without any issues, but it still crashes every time I open this one. I tried copying and pasting my Final Cut sequence into a new sequence and exporting that to Color, but no luck. Any | | | | |
| | | | Re: Apple Color Quits on Open by Joseph Owens on May 2, 2012 at 2:30:48 pm in the Apple Color Forum Try to eliminate any system problems. What form those might take depends on your hardware configuration and operating system.
Then attempt to run COLOR in a minimal load situation -- ie start a new empty project, try loading a few clips by hand a | | | | |
| | | | Apple Color Quits on Open by Zachary Silver on May 1, 2012 at 11:00:09 pm in the Apple Color Forum Hi Everyone,
After opening a project I'm trying to grade in Color, it quits every time. Once it opens the project, if I don't press anything it stays open, but as soon as I move the playhead it quits. The clips are Prores 422 format and the project | | | | |
| | | | Re: Hex Color Picker in FCPX? by Tom Wolsky on Apr 28, 2012 at 3:30:29 am in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum I think there are five different color pickers in the Apple color picker. You don't have to use crayons. You can enter RGB or CMYK values. There is a web safe palette that let's you search hex. It may not correspond to output because video is RGB. No | | | | |
| | | | Re: Desktop Monitor for Web Color Grading by Joseph Owens on Apr 24, 2012 at 4:01:16 pm in the DaVinci Resolve Forum [Zak Ray] "desktop calibration, i.e. a Spyder?
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Generally are sold to be used to calibrate consumer displays for photography (gamma 1.8) to profile for inkjet, which is probably not really your target space. The Spyder is useless for video.
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| | | | @greg gilpatrick by walter biscardi on Apr 19, 2012 at 1:56:03 am in the COW - Tutorials Forum Yeah, Jeremy you're right. They freshened up the style of the interface but overall, it seems the same. I don't see how people who had trouble learning Smoke before will have it much better now.
That's easy, we didn't have a standard NLE interface | | | | |
| | | | @Tom Masters by walter biscardi on Apr 19, 2012 at 1:46:09 am in the COW - Tutorials Forum All this talk of it being "easy" to learn and run all of a sudden is BS. Yes, I saw all the videos. And it sure does look like smoke to me.
No, it really IS easy to learn. The editing interface especially you'll just jump in to.
The Connect F | | | | |
| | | | Re: Intensity Extreme output question by Bob Walmsley on Apr 16, 2012 at 2:23:20 pm in the Blackmagic Design Forum Hi Adrian
I'm trying to found out whether the Blackmagic Intensity Extreme (Thundeerbolt) is compatible with Apple Color 1.5.3
I have an old sony broadcast monitor which I want to hook up to my set-up. Do you know if I can send Color's video ou | | | | |
| | | | preparing to go to Color form FCP by Alexandre Brandt on Apr 15, 2012 at 8:06:57 pm in the Apple Color Forum Hello all,
I had a small question concerning the preparation of the timeline in FCP to go to color.
I know that a timeline has to be prepared and some shots with some effects have to be "backed" in before sending the timeline into color but I'm | | | | |
| | | | Service: Studio Gola by Sandeep Sajeev on Apr 13, 2012 at 11:54:35 pm in the COW - Services Forum 9 years in Production and Post Production for Broadcast Television and Television Commercials as a Director, Producer and Editor. Associates Degree in Applied Science (Barbados Community College)
Bachelors Degree in MIS (University of South Florida) | | | | |
| | | | Studio Gola by Sandeep Sajeev on Apr 13, 2012 at 4:54:35 pm in the Forum 9 years in Production and Post Production for Broadcast Television and Television Commercials as a Director, Producer and Editor. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Video Output Disabled in Apple Color by Shane Ross on Apr 12, 2012 at 2:28:05 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum You will only see Firewire until you install the drivers for the IO devices. BMD has options, AJA has options. Has anyone tried them and seen that they work? Dunno. They do in theory. I'm sure someone has used them...just need to find that perso | | | | |
| | | | Re: Video Output Disabled in Apple Color by Bob Walmsley on Apr 12, 2012 at 11:28:03 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Hi
I'm desperately looking for a solution to use Color on my Imac with a broadcast monitor displaying video output.
Rafael, you say that you need an IO device to use the Color Video Output option. Do you know if the current thunderbolt devices | | | | |
| | | | Re: Reference movie issue by John Heagy on Apr 10, 2012 at 10:11:45 pm in the DaVinci Resolve Forum "[Juan Salvo] "Ive never expected resolve to work with reference movies..."
[Joseph Owens] Me, either. The same with Apple COLOR..."
Ok, but I do. Reference movies are integral to our workflow plus they save us time and space. It does take | | | | |
| | | | Re: Reference movie issue by Joseph Owens on Apr 10, 2012 at 9:30:58 pm in the DaVinci Resolve Forum [Juan Salvo] "Ive never expected resolve to work with reference movies..."
Me, either. The same with Apple COLOR -- reference movies are a big no-no, since the relative addressing gets lost in the same manner as nested sequences cannot be represe | | | | |
| | | | Re: 70s Look in Apple Color by Joseph Owens on Apr 10, 2012 at 3:51:03 pm in the Apple Color Forum [jerry wise] "and h-shifts."
Ah, for non-color-framed pre-RS170A events... and, of course U-Matic "waterfall" edits.
Are you a member of the Quadlist?
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| | | | Re: 70s Look in Apple Color by Marcus Samuel-Gaskin on Apr 10, 2012 at 10:17:32 am in the Apple Color Forum I would firstly get the Nattress plugins for Color for the G-Blend plugin, then I would head to this Photoshop tutorials link
http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/80-photoshop-actions-for-giving-your-pictures-a-vintage-look
They have a bunch of | | | | |
| | | | Re: 70s Look in Apple Color by Joseph Owens on Apr 9, 2012 at 6:08:15 pm in the Apple Color Forum Cameras prior to about 1984 were based on tube technology; vidicons, plumbicons, saticon, and so on. Recordings were also nearly 100% tape based - ranging from 2" quad to 3/4 Umatic and some portable C-format 1" which all eventually gave way to 1/2" | | | | |
| | | | Intensity Pro - No video preview in Apple Color by Tony Webber on Apr 9, 2012 at 3:26:07 pm in the Blackmagic Design Forum Hi,
I've been running Color 1.5.3 on Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with a Blackmagic Intensity Pro and all has been working as it should.
I decided to upgrade to Lion and now Color won't give me a preview through the Intensity Pro. This happens when I am | | | | |
| | | | 70s Look in Apple Color by Zachary Silver on Apr 9, 2012 at 2:24:28 pm in the Apple Color Forum Hi everyone,
I'm working on a project set in the 70s and I was wondering if anybody knows how to achieve an aged, 70s kind of look in Apple Color.
I'm wondering about specific techniques I could use to achieve the effect, do I reduce contrast? How | | | | |
| | | | Color DCI Workflow problems by Richard Pearce on Apr 9, 2012 at 7:57:01 am in the Apple Color Forum Hey all,
I'm working in the very low budget area of the film industry and sometimes do some archival work. I've got some workflow questions and would be very grateful for some pointers.
Equipment:
- External Monitor: 10bit Eizo ColorGraphic | | | | |
| | | | Re: After "Send to Color," Media Missing?! by Anthony Bui on Apr 7, 2012 at 4:41:01 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum The files are Apple Prores 422 23.9fps 1920x1080p
and the sequence is the preset: Apple Prores 422 1920x1080p 24fps
I double checked everything in regard to sequence settings/file format, and it's been the same way I've been doing it for some t | | | | |
| | | | Re: Powergrades in all databases? by Juan Salvo on Apr 6, 2012 at 10:37:08 pm in the DaVinci Resolve Forum Your os associates DPX files with apple color. It is an OS setting not to do with the davinci. If you don't have Color installed it won't do that.
You can change association by pressing cmd-i while you have a dpx file selected in finder.
Then w | | | | |
| | | | Re: Powergrades in all databases? by Dara Yem on Apr 6, 2012 at 10:30:19 pm in the DaVinci Resolve Forum Hi Guys,
quick question i export a .DPX files but somehow it got a little Apple COLOR symbol on it? Seem like all the DPX files i export it automatically stamp it to COLOR applicatio, How come? And when i click the DPX it will launch Apple Color. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Discovery show -"GOLD RUSH" look -How to? by Christopher Adams on Apr 6, 2012 at 5:30:13 pm in the Apple Color Forum Well if your using apple color you would push some warmth into the highs and maybe a tad into the mids while leaving the lows more neutral black.
if you look at the color wheel controls in color you can push toward the 9:00 to 10 o'clock or so.
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| | | | Re: REDCINE-X + FCP + Color by Alex Elkins on Apr 4, 2012 at 11:06:47 am in the RED Camera Forum The process for conforming a Final Cut Pro offline back to R3D files for grading in Apple Color is as follows:
1. Export XML from Final Cut Pro of your finished offline edit.
2. Import that XML into RedCine-X Professional. RCX-Pro will ask you | | | | |
Podcasts | | | | final cut help tutorials podcast Tracking Vignettes In this Final Cut tutorial podcast, Richard Harrington along with Robbie Carman use Apple Color to teach how to use a stylized vignette sort of like a power window that will use tracking to follow a person around a scene. | | | | |
| | | | final cut help tutorials podcast Saturation Curves in Color In this tutorial, Richard Harrington along with Robbie Carman use Apple Color to create the stylized Pleasantville effect where one thing in the image is in color and everything else is desaturated. | | | | |
| | | | creative cow extras podcast Colorgrading Monitors: What Works, What Doesn't In this Creative COW extras podcast, Walter Biscardi and Ron Anderson discuss one of the most discussed topics in the Apple Color forum, color grading and monitors. Ron Anderson is a colorist with CineFilm Atlanta. | | | | |
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