Luca Immesi
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Color is a great color correction tools and has the red room, AE is really flexible and you can online a project.
Let's try to get the best of the two worlds:
1 Shoot 4k/2k 16:9
2 Drag the RDM folder in Clipfinder
3 Choose M proxies for 4k and H proxies for 2k
4 Drag the clips to FCP bin and make your edit with M (for 4k) proxies and with H (for 2k) proxies
5 When you finish your editing duplicate the sequence, put all the clips on the first video track and remove all the effects
6 Export the EDL
7 Make a new color project and import the edl
8 Put the right frame rate, resolution (what ever you want), put the right files path, if needed resize the clips in the geometry room
9 When you finish with you color correction you have two options:
A Render all the clips to Uncompressed 10 bit, Dpx, Prores etc. and send back to FCP and export FCP sequence (file-export to quicktime movie) and, if you happy with the result, finish here.
B Render all the clips to Aja 10-bit RGB codec or dpx (if you export to dpx you have to manually wrap every clip with dpxtoquicktimetraslator and rename it 1_g1.mov and so on or relink manually in AE later) and try the AE route
10 Export from Color a xml (check "Match final cut pro sequence with render settings"
11 Choose one of these two options:
A Dowload and install this script in AE http://www.creative-workflow-hacks.com/2007/04/15/final-cut-pro-to-after-effects-scripting-without-the-hassle/
B Open Premiere Pro, import the xml from Color, save the project, open AE and import Adobe Premiere Pro project
12 Set AE project settings to 16 or 32 bit
13 Make titles, transitions etc.
14 Export to whatever format you need
In AE I made a comparison between a Cineon sequence files from Color (AE CS4 has problem with DPX, it can't import them), a Aja quicktime wrapped dpx and a Aja 10 bit rgb codec.
The first two were the same but the aja 10 bit was darker but when I've set the project to 16 or 32 bit there was no difference between the files.
Let's try to get the best of the two worlds:
1 Shoot 4k/2k 16:9
2 Drag the RDM folder in Clipfinder
3 Choose M proxies for 4k and H proxies for 2k
4 Drag the clips to FCP bin and make your edit with M (for 4k) proxies and with H (for 2k) proxies
5 When you finish your editing duplicate the sequence, put all the clips on the first video track and remove all the effects
6 Export the EDL
7 Make a new color project and import the edl
8 Put the right frame rate, resolution (what ever you want), put the right files path, if needed resize the clips in the geometry room
9 When you finish with you color correction you have two options:
A Render all the clips to Uncompressed 10 bit, Dpx, Prores etc. and send back to FCP and export FCP sequence (file-export to quicktime movie) and, if you happy with the result, finish here.
B Render all the clips to Aja 10-bit RGB codec or dpx (if you export to dpx you have to manually wrap every clip with dpxtoquicktimetraslator and rename it 1_g1.mov and so on or relink manually in AE later) and try the AE route
10 Export from Color a xml (check "Match final cut pro sequence with render settings"
11 Choose one of these two options:
A Dowload and install this script in AE http://www.creative-workflow-hacks.com/2007/04/15/final-cut-pro-to-after-effects-scripting-without-the-hassle/
B Open Premiere Pro, import the xml from Color, save the project, open AE and import Adobe Premiere Pro project
12 Set AE project settings to 16 or 32 bit
13 Make titles, transitions etc.
14 Export to whatever format you need
In AE I made a comparison between a Cineon sequence files from Color (AE CS4 has problem with DPX, it can't import them), a Aja quicktime wrapped dpx and a Aja 10 bit rgb codec.
The first two were the same but the aja 10 bit was darker but when I've set the project to 16 or 32 bit there was no difference between the files.
