Color 1.5 VS RocketCine - What will give you better DPX

[Vigen Vartanov]

Good day .
First of all , want to say that i am happy with Apple Color . For small budget project it done great job for me .
Few days ago we done Color Correction on scratch , in Kiev on Scratch . We get very nice picture and great sharp quality.
I can understand that question is about Colorist , but also i thing that color can not render as good as Scratch or even RedRocket Cine can do .
How you thing dose final result depend on software ?

Please share your experience . May be better to don not use Color when you don not need any Secondary corrections ?

 

[Ben Brainerd]

A long while back Gunleik and I did some tests and, while we weren't necessarily trying to answer your particular question, one of the surprising things we found out was a Color-rendered DPX is functionally indistinguishable from a Scratch/RedCine-X/Clipfinder-rendered DPX. (Tests are here: http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=42476)

So, really, it's a question of time, all other things being equal. If you're pressed for time, something that's Rocket-Enabled (RedCine-X, Scratch, etc) is a better bet.

However, in the real world, all things *aren't* equal. Most colorists use one piece of software exclusively. So if your colorist is good at Scratch, grade in scratch. If he's good at Color, grade in Color. Any potential minor render differences are going to be more than offset by the quality gains you'll get by letting your colorist work in a program he's comfortable with.

 

[Jordi Figueras]

A long while back Gunleik and I did some tests and, while we weren't necessarily trying to answer your particular question, one of the surprising things we found out was a Color-rendered DPX is functionally indistinguishable from a Scratch/RedCine-X/Clipfinder-rendered DPX. (Tests are here: http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=42476)

So, really, it's a question of time, all other things being equal. If you're pressed for time, something that's Rocket-Enabled (RedCine-X, Scratch, etc) is a better bet.

However, in the real world, all things *aren't* equal. Most colorists use one piece of software exclusively. So if your colorist is good at Scratch, grade in scratch. If he's good at Color, grade in Color. Any potential minor render differences are going to be more than offset by the quality gains you'll get by letting your colorist work in a program he's comfortable with.

Amen to that.