a BARGIN....Thanks @shain

Are you sure you have Cuda enabled in your 3D options in AE?

Several of the operators, depending on which you use, might not be GPU enabled. It's been a long time since I coded anything but I'm going to guess that designing an operator to be GPU accelerated is a little more involved than making an operator work in full 32bit and Adobe has been too lazy to do that across the entire program. There's that too.

@peternap - tomorrow :)

@OzNimbus - yes

Shian, will you be offering discounts for existing subscribers to upgrade to CGpro?

I love DaVinci. There is no excuse not to have it in your arsenal, so long as your machine can run it.

@QuickHitRecord no it won't, but there are ways to port your grades as LUTs from DaVinci and apply in AE and take advantage of GHrain Killer and the new GHrain Overlays. Like I did with this very subtle grade here http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/110499#Comment_110499

So having both is definitely an advantage.

Maybe it's good time to learn Davinci Resolve 9 Lite.

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/3046/davinci-resolve-9

Those of you waiting for CG Pro (which will be released this week) download DaVinci Resolve Lite, get it working on your system, and get familiar with it, cuz you are going to love grading in it with CG Pro. The damn thing is FREE. What used to be $100,000 is now free. 10 years ago I could only dream of having this monster on my home computer.

If the older versions turned you off, don't worry Resolve 9 is VERY user friendly. Unlike the older versions which were user UNFRIENDLY. If you have issues getting it working, BlackMagic's support forums can usually answer your questions, as can a web search of your particular issue.

And don't you worry, your Uncle Scary (that's me) is gonna teach to you to tame the beast. But it might help you hit the ground running, if you are at least familiar with it, even if you still can't figure everything out yet.

http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support

@OzNimbus Thanks! On top of my Color Finesse tech grade I used 5DtoRGB Low Contrast, GreenKill, Bluer Than Blue (70%), and Film Grain.

My first time out:

I have watched the tutorials and I have tried to simplify it even further for myself ( @shian let me know if this is not a good workflow). I did the technical grade with Color Finesse for all clips. Whenever there were shadows that I wanted to preserve, I brought them up to 20 IRE, and brought any highlights that I cared about back down to 80 IRE. Then I adjusted contrast on the master control so that highlights were just shy of 100 IRE and my shadows were just short of 5 IRE or so.

After that, I stacked and mixed GHears for the overall look, tweaking Color Finesse along the way to keep everything relatively consistent.

Also, in two places the crossfade transitions in the export had a little jump in them. I am not sure if that was as a result of them not making it over to AE properly, or perhaps my machine choked during the three hour render time. I had to bring the whole thing back into Premiere to try to remedy it, but they are bandaid edits. If you know anything about editing, you'll see where they are.

I started playing with colorghears getting ready for a short film. And I am so amazed. When I first read about colorghears I thought it might be more of just simple presets. But boy was I wrong their is so much going on then just simple presets. Shian are you going to make anymore tutorials on some of the ghears that aren't very self explanatory.

The first download must have been corrupted. I downloaded again and it installed with no problem,.

@Shain Is there supposed to be anything in the folder other than DS Store? That's all there is. I;ve loaded the folder(S) into the presets folder every way I can think of, and AE still doesn't see it.