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Extremely sharp images from FCP/Color

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Antoine Fabi

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Has everyone else has experimented the same ?

I find the 2K images coming out of FCP/Color look extremely sharp if i compare to ProRes export from REDCINE.

To approach that sharpness with REDCINE, i have to use DPX.

Is there sharpening automatically applied in the process ?

thanks

Antoine
 
No Automatic sharpening applied that I know of. However, if set, it will use a "half high" demosaic from 4k to 2k, which is inherently sharp because of the very nice downsample filter used. Is the sharpness a problem?

Graeme
 
Hi Graeme,

A problem with the sharpness ? No, for sure No!

It looks kind of IMAX like on a TV monitor without beeing "edgy".

I was curious because of the great speed/quality of the scaling in the FCP/Color workflow. It looks very very sharp.

I'm trying to figure how i will match that sharpness with other apps for 3K footage because Color can't scale 3K to 2 K.

If only Color could do 3K to 2K !!!

Great and very easy workflow.


thanks!

Antoine
 
Luca,

I get an error message for the link.

Antoine
 
Luca,

...in your example, to my eyes, Color looks sharper.

Antoine
 
Graeme Nattress said:
No Automatic sharpening applied that I know of. However, if set, it will use a "half high" demosaic from 4k to 2k, which is inherently sharp because of the very nice downsample filter used. Is the sharpness a problem?

Graeme
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Graeme,

When you say "if set"... do you mean we can choose the demosaic quality in Color ?

I can't find this setting in Color.

Antoine
 
Color takes it's demosaic, either "half-standard" or "half-high" from the proxy settings. FCP takes it from the control panel.

Graeme
 
Graeme Nattress said:
Color takes it's demosaic, either "half-standard" or "half-high" from the proxy settings. FCP takes it from the control panel.

Graeme
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Do you mean that reconnecting M proxies with H proxies in final cut before exporting to Color enable half-high debayer instead of half-standard?
 
Color has a proxy feature of it's own, for playback, render, etc. It's from these that the settings are taken.

Graeme
 
Graeme Nattress said:
Color has a proxy feature of it's own, for playback, render, etc. It's from these that the settings are taken.

Graeme
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I see. But usually on my laptop I use Color with all proxy settings set to quarter resolution, then I disable proxy settings before rendering, in this way I obtain very sharp proxies. Is it correct?
 
Holy...

It already looked beautifull and it was at Half-Standard in Syst prefs!!!!!

Looks even better in Half-High!!! :)

thanks!

Antoine
 
Now...

How can we work with 3K files (for slow motion) in a 2K timeline with FCP/Color...

That's missing right now.

Antoine
 
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