@shian

Just paid up for yr software and am trying to ride the steep learning curve. But from yr tutorials, am learning so much more about colour grading. Thanks for the hard work, mate

About the hack, v2 is good, but so is Drift's "Spanmybitch" We shot a TVC/corporate reel over 2 days at 10 hours each, had full production value, and the hack held up very well. Not once did it crash. Highest bit rate @76mbps 24p set to "all details"

@Magnus387 That looks great =)

Hello @shian: Are you familiar with working linear 1.0 gamma? As I understand it we can sometimes benefit from it, whereas sometimes not. Particuarly when working with lights, blend modes, and particles will benefit - but not always color correction. Only in the highlights. Do you think you can tweak some of your fx for linear as well? Thanks. Looking forward to the new tuts! Keep it up!

I applied the ColorGHear presets on my friend's photo from his GF1.

1st one: original

2nd one: mostly default presets

3rd one: opacity reduced presets

4th one: without highlight adjustment from ColorFinesse

5th one: with Pen Tool & Level corrections

6th one: with more vignette

@artiswar I lowered opacity of the cc layers. It's the 3rd attachment.

Personal favorite is the 4th image. The bright sign that's in the center of the photo looks dull in all the others.

@artiswar hmmm... I removed the exposure adjustment around the center area.

Thanks @artiswar. I like it, too.

But when I choose to work with color managment and set the project to linear everything gets darker (unless I switch on the LUT, I think it is not called this rather "display..." something, in the viewer). So when I add the 5D dense it's really dark anyway. Crazy dark w/o LUT display turned on.

And the clip from 5DtoRGB is interpreted as REC.709. I can't change it to anything else. ;)

Am I missing something essential?

Ok, thanks! :)

@No_SuRReNDeR dude, you need to use more than one adjustment layer, and mix. Stacking GHears in one layer is insane, I can see why that would take forever to adjust. It shouldn't take you longer than a few minutes to grade each shot, and once you get used to how the GHears work, it takes just a few seconds. drag. drop, mix, move on...

And unless there's an exposure mismatch, or a need to power window, leave the footage alone, and do all your grading in the adjustment layers. It's a different process than other systems. I've been doing this for 12 years, and have already made all the mistakes for you, and learned from them, learn from me, and save yourself a lot of time and trouble.

@stonebat that sounds really odd. AFX doesn't have an instance copy function. If you cut and paste layers it is a true copy. U do have to select them top to bottom in order for them to get copied in order, but unless you have some sort of collapse function selected there is no way to control layers in one composition by changing settings in another. And then it only occurs when those layers are nested in a pre-comp.

I'll be creating a few new tutorials this week, mostly to address these issues. I sometimes forget some people aren't used to using AFX the way I do, so I will try to show you how to manage clips, etc, so that you can work in a way similar to NLE's like FCP in terms of copying and pasting attributes to similarly treated clips, showing you just what is going on in GH2 footage in terms of highlights and shadows so you can get better exposures, and also know just what can and can't be fixed in post.