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GH2 color grading
  • bwhitzbwhitz
    All discussions about color-grading, methods, suggestions, software, plug-in's, and soon to be (hopefully) tutorials... continued from the low-GOP thread.
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  • No_SuRReNDeRNo_SuRReNDeR

    @shian I think I figured it out....frame 0 is basically black from fade in so.... I have to go to GHrain killer->sampling then choose the frame I am on in the time line say 249...adjust the sample size and I manually chose the sampling points where the noise is crazy --after I switch the mode back to Final Output..then adjust the opacity accordingly....Now I get very pleasing results :)

    I know there is more too it but "basically" I think I get it...

  • shianshian

    @No_SuRReNDeR it's a sampling error due to a major difference between frame 0 and the current frames being displayed under the adjustment layer. It will all be covered in the next tutorial. I'm trying to make sure I cover everything, and this is the most complex part of CGT, so I want to be thorough. Hopefully it'll be out next week.

  • No_SuRReNDeRNo_SuRReNDeR

    @shian I have noticed that the Ghrain killer and Ghrain Killer 2 seem to work intermittently on my footage. I usually put this is as lowest layer closest to the clip/sequence all the other GHears adjustments work freaking awesome..(love my grades)... but for some weird reason it just seems like the Ghrain killer is only working when it wants to...which for me isnt often.. could the default grain killer 3.0 plug-in in my after effects have just gone bad? Am I maybe doing something wrong in terms of layer order? What do you think?

  • alcomposeralcomposer

    @shian if you are able to encapsulate your colour transforms into a OpenCL Kernel then using something like Noise Industries should not be an issue. I have quite a bit of experience working with NI, and it is currently a very mature product...

  • AlexAlex

    yet another color grading basic tips blog. Good for starters and Premiere worklowers :-)

    http://www.hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/2012/01/20/7-tips-for-hd-color-correction-and-dslr-color-correction/

  • shianshian

    yup

  • MarkVMarkV

    @shian So eventually.. if you find (and be able to hire them) some proframmers.. the toolkit can evolve into UI based plugin for AE, right? :-)

  • shianshian

    @manda eventually I hope. Right now, I'm not making enough to warrant hiring programmers for the job, which is what it would take.

  • mandamanda

    Will there be a version for plugging straight into FCPX soon? the Adobe swis way too expensive for me.

  • shianshian
    New ColorGHear Thread to handle announcements, questions, concerns, suggestions for the plug-in,as well as videos et al.

    http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/1817/colorghear-toolkit-powerful-color-correction-for-hdslrs#Item_10
  • shianshian
    And part 2 is up. It's about an hour long, and lags a bit in places because rather than cheating, and scripting how to re-assemble the looks in the demo, you get to hear me think and analyze as I try to piece together how the look is created. (I don't think out loud, but if you crank up the sound, you can probably hear the gears turning in my head...well, maybe not over the constant "ummmm...ummmm"ing)

  • spiritspirit
    This looks fantastic - can't wait for part 2 and the release of the plugin itself.

    Also think you have a great voice for tutorials and go at the right pace - more often than not I find the voice on tutorials either mind-numbingly boring or nauseatingly over enthusiastic...
  • alcomposeralcomposer
    @shian
    Any thoughts on developing the plugins for FCPX in the future? Would be quite powerful to have this control within editing...

    (I believe that FCPX uses Motion plugins now- along with FXplug2...)
  • HillTop1HillTop1
    Looking good @shian. When is it going to be available for purchase. Can't wait to start playing with it.
  • shianshian
    Teaser 2 is up.


    Walkthrough Pt 1 (The Primer) is up as well


    Part 2 (GHUTS and GHLORY) is uploading now
  • MarkVMarkV
    Camtasia is the best of the best you can get.. and I never had a single problem with it or even with editing the footage..
  • shianshian
    I'll try to have part 1 up tonight, no later than tomorrow afternoon. I think I'm going to have to buy Camtasia. It's great to have a free screen recorder in QT X, but the footage is just a pain to work with. FCP won't recognize it, even when exported to another codec.

    You live and you learn I guess.
  • shianshian
    "The Aviator" style 2-Strip TechniColor gear added.

    Walkthrough coming late Wed. I'm having problems editing and exporting the screen capture videos. (I'm pretty sure you guys don't want to sit through a 90 minute video with me going off on tangents about irrelevant stuff)
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  • MarkVMarkV
    @shian

    can we expect the plugin UI presentation video this week as you said before? :)
  • johnnymjohnnym
    @shian

    I visited your site. I like what you did with EOSHD's footage.
  • shianshian
    @Marco I haven't really experimented too much with the other settings. I really like what I get with cinema, but now that my cam is finally hacked, I will be doing a lot more experiments for the tutorial series.
  • MarcoMarco
    When I use the "cinema" picture profile, the videos are exposed darker so that I have to open the aperture a little bit. When I use the "smooth" picture profile, the videos are exposed brighter so that I have to close the aperture a little bit.
    At the end of the day, is the "cinema" or "smooth" picture profile preserving more highlights and blacks?

    Which one is more suited for color grading? (Today, EOSHD.com recommended the nostalgia and smooth picture profile)
  • shianshian
    @chauncy I'm an Apple guy myself, but i know what you mean, and am targeting both mac and windows users, speaking of which what is everyone on the PC side using for 444 and 422 prores style renders? Is it still Uncompressed and Animation QTs?
  • chauncychauncy
    @shian

    Good luck to you.

    I found the resolve beta for windows to be hopeless. Aside from the fact it crashed every 3 seconds, and they failed to log or explain why, they clearly made no effort to adhere to windows application standards, making the usability of the application more annoying than anything. It's a whole lot easier to make an app like theirs when you pull that you-will-have-our-exact-hardware apple crap. The hardware I have is better and faster, it's just not what they've decided to include.

    Fine. If they'd made that clearer I wouldn't have wasted two hours with it.

    So, in my mind there's clearly an opening for your plug-in within ae. I think colorista is a lot better than many others might, but there's room for a more specialized, targeted plugin for the non-apple people who still would prefer top-notch results.

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