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Re: Apple Color Quits on Open
by Joseph Owens on May 5, 2012 at 3:49:46 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
Render folder is all about destinations, but it looks like all your media is off-line, so time to do some re-connecting... jPo
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: The SuperApp? A current Smoke user's take...
by Jeremy Garchow on May 1, 2012 at 3:36:42 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
Thanks so much for your response. [David Jahns] "Jeremy - there is actually quite an extensive audio toolset. But quite honestly, since I've been doing picture finishing, I haven't really touched it, I just load in mixes done from ProTools." Ty
Re: The SuperApp? A current Smoke user's take...
by David Jahns on May 1, 2012 at 3:08:42 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
Thanks for reading, guys! A few answers.... Jeremy - there is actually quite an extensive audio toolset. But quite honestly, since I've been doing picture finishing, I haven't really touched it, I just load in mixes done from ProTools. No XML/
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
Custom shape masks and motion tracking in Final Cut Pro X
by Steven Love on Apr 28, 2012 at 2:29:18 am
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
Is there a way to create custom shapes for masks to color grade footage in FCP X that you can motion track like you could do in Apple Color from FCP 3 Suite? Or, is this something I need to do in Motion 5? Since I reformatted my Macs with Lion and
Re: Apple color showing distorted green footage and can't export back to fcp
by vu thai on Apr 27, 2012 at 3:41:03 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
Thank you! My problem is solved! Turns out I had a 60 fps file that was twixtored and a timelapse that had a larger dimension than 1920 x 1080 which was causing it to geek out. I removed both and everything and order is restored.
Re: Apple color showing distorted green footage and can't export back to fcp
by Joseph Owens on Apr 26, 2012 at 5:27:15 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
[vu thai] " I also test rendered a few files and verified them in the render directory." So it worked once. Sounds like COLOR was okay until you hit another problem spot. At this point, the old troubleshooting approach was to cut up the proj
Re: Apple color showing distorted green footage and can't export back to fcp
by vu thai on Apr 26, 2012 at 2:44:08 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
Ok one part of the problem is solved! I removed all the stills sent it to color and was able to start editing. I also test rendered a few files and verified them in the render directory. The problem is while editing, the footage all the sudden tu
Re: Apple color showing distorted green footage and can't export back to fcp
by Joseph Owens on Apr 25, 2012 at 6:53:23 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
Most of the time its because there is something on the timeline that is incompatible, like an oversized graphic. jPo
Re: Apple color showing distorted green footage and can't export back to fcp
by vu thai on Apr 25, 2012 at 2:55:22 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
I am using Apple Pro Res 422 LT.
Re: Apple color showing distorted green footage and can't export back to fcp
by Marcus Samuel-Gaskin on Apr 25, 2012 at 11:23:33 am
in the Apple Color Forum
You'll have to supply more info on the footage that you'e using. Could be an unsupported codec for the roundtrip.
Apple color showing distorted green footage and can't export back to fcp
by vu thai on Apr 25, 2012 at 4:25:21 am
in the Apple Color Forum
When I export to color, and I get this green distorted footage, and have to restart color. Looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/zE0U0.png Sometimes reseting works, but when I send back to fcp all the footage is the garbled distorted green. Any
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? " 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.
News: Splice Welcomes Colorist Alexis Van Hurkman To Company's Talent Roster
by Cow News Droid on Apr 24, 2012 at 4:00:26 pm
in the NEWS: Product News Releases Forum
(Minneapolis, Minnesota--April 24, 2012) Splice Here® announced the addition of Colorist Alexis Van Hurkman to the company’s talent roster. Hurkman comes to Splice having recently moved from New York, where he color graded a wide diversity of project
Re: Compositing Blending Techniques (Colour Correction, etc)
by Chris Wood on Apr 24, 2012 at 9:26:11 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Thanks, I already did that with the grass. It doesn't track perfectly but it's barely noticeable. My Dissertation is on VFX, so I feel like if I use Magic Bullet it would be cheating ;) Don't worry, I already have experience with Apple Color.
Re: Has anyone else noticed this? Game over, great job by Apple.
by Liam Hall on Apr 20, 2012 at 5:04:49 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Robert Bracken] "I didn't know that there were presets in the Color Correction window. I learn something new everyday." I can recommend both Lynda.com and Ripple training. Takes the pain out of learning new software. As for the colour presets
Video Editor / Colorist - Post Production (full-time)
by Susan Dempster on Apr 19, 2012 at 8:06:36 pm
in the JOBS Offered - Higher Pay Forum
Video Editor / Colorist - Post Production (full-time) (Charlotte, NC) Aerial Filmworks has a full-time video editing position available. Our company of passionate and creative individuals is looking for a versatile member to join our post-prod
@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: Skin tone correction Final Cut
by Mark Suszko on Apr 16, 2012 at 4:44:55 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum
Throw money at it with the digital makeup plug-in, or isolate the problem sections with multiple, layes maks and try Apple Color on it?
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
Walter Biscardi: Yes, Autodesk Smoke 2013 Changes Everything
by Walter Biscardi on Apr 15, 2012 at 3:00:03 pm
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
"From the moment I saw Autodesk Smoke 2013, I knew the entire post production world as we knew it had changed." So says Creative COW Contributing Editor Walter Biscardi in an overview that covers Smoke's new editor-centered (and Mac-friendl
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 Bob Walmsley on Apr 12, 2012 at 6:22:24 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Ok, thanks for your quick response. B
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: True no budget setup for grading, what are the best options?
by Pepijn Klijs on Apr 12, 2012 at 12:49:17 pm
in the DaVinci Resolve Forum
[Chris Jones] " I could have bought an HP Dreamcolor monitor for $2,500 - which I think is the cheapest monitor you can buy to get by with for grading." the Dreamcolor also needs the signal to be converted thru the decklink card, so would have had
Re: True no budget setup for grading, what are the best options?
by Chris Jones on Apr 12, 2012 at 12:42:18 pm
in the DaVinci Resolve Forum
I'm still setting up my "budget" Resolve workstation on my Mac Pro. The one thing I learned is that it expensive. Even on a budget. I kept discovering "now I need this..." One of the first things I bought was my monitor which is a NEC PA241W. It i
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? jPo
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 jerry wise on Apr 9, 2012 at 10:03:15 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
and don't forget my two 2"quad vtr editing horrors....drop-outs and h-shifts.
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. ht
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

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