Better to Color in Final Cut for best quality?

[Ramon Boutviseth]

If the Red footage is native on your timeline, and I color graded with Nattress G films, do you think this would be good enough for onlining or should I definitely consider using color for my grading. I'm worry about the compression with my 10-bit timeline.

Nattress Render workflow
Native > 10 bit > Online

Color Workflow
Native > 12 bit > 10 bit > Online

Which is better you think? I'm looking at my footage using both workflows and they both look pretty clean.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

with color you have controll on your metadata...
depends a bit on what your deliveryformat is, if you are generally happy...

 

[Dave Blackham]

Its an interesting question.

Perhaps Graeme could tell us his view !

Dave

 

[BigLu]

What is your final output?

 

[Ramon Boutviseth]

It's going to digibeta for broadcoast, but most likely to be put on the web to outlets like myspace and youtube

 

[Kaku Ito]

I spent significant time with these workflows,

A. FCP proxy editing>Crimson>REDCINE>FCP>Color
B. FCP proxy editing>Color

B workflow is more direct, but now that I look back, since Color is not covering the whole metadata parameters, I think the A workflow can get better results. What do other people think?