Thanks, man! Up until a few weeks ago, I was utterly hopeless with grading... The tutorials are priceless.

@shian Heal up quick brother. If you're stuck in bed, just do what Bruce Lee did when on forced bedrest due to injury...he wrote his book, his masterpiece...Tao of Jeet Kune Do...all by dictating to some hot blond in the room (his wife). Assuming you got the blond...and the masterpiece in mind...this could be a real productive time for you. Rock on!

Proof that ColorGHear is more than a set of presets. Upon dissection, you can really see the usefulness and purpose of each GHear and repurpose it to other software. Upon tax time, I'm swiftly purchasing the pro package. Must learn more!

This was a mix of CGT and DaVinci.

Sorry but i don't see the difference between that and reproduce this with a basic edit program using some color/contrast tool. For me ColorGhear is just a preset like what magic can do, please show me a real difference. Another marketing ?

@shian

Don't be rude but i know exactly what Precision Grading is... you think you are the only one working on that stuff ? I'm going to repeat again, it doesn't give anything more than what you already can do with a basic edit program... playing with some algorithm color is not a big deal and with few training you can even do better than what your stuff offer (limited by your point)

So you think that people with DSLR can't make that type of CG ? you only watch where you want to watch ? Have a lot of people that know what is CG, you just playing with people that don't know how to use that typical basic tool, i made in the past a video explaining about compositing (more strong than prescript plugin) with nuke. D didn't make a plug (prescripted) to take money from people... what you did is not different than magic bullet.

You talk about 3 Way color (you know that you can work point by point on basic program and select the part of the picture to reproduce what you want) you should just show that.

"So as not to be misleading, ColorGHear is a system, and not so much a plug-in"

I'm laughing when i read this, because is actually a package of prescript node (kinda plug-in) so not really a system, we talk about system when you really work on algorithm that construct point by point the skeleton color.

I'm not sure is good to bring false information about how your package work... (more when you use AE to represent that)

People don't need to buy your stuff People are curious, it's normal that they watch your video (human being) and when you talk about it everywhere as a commercial... don't expect any respect from that

Sorry but too much commercial and marketing behind that..

@zilk I've purchased the Color GHears for $50 a few months back, and I'm glad I did. I haven't used the ColorGHears to edit a lot yet, but I've watched most of the tutorials, and I've actually used some of the advice as I'm editing a trailer in Premiere. So the tutorials alone are worth the $50.

After my current project is filmed, I will test ColorGHears to see if it works for me. I expect I will use it. But others have already been using it and report that it has improved their editing.

Technically you may be accurate in saying that a preset/plugin to After Effects can be acheived by an experienced user of that program...but that doesn't mean the Color Ghears presets don't help. Many presets and plugins are created and purchased for many different types of software. This is all normal stuff. And at $50, @shian has really priced this as a bargain.

And he's correct. We have all emailed with various editing questions and he's been kind enough to give us intelligent helpful answers, when rightfully we should just allow him to surf internet porn without being bothered. He's also contributed to many discussions on filming, editing, and new equipment testing.

Bottom line: @shian seems like a solid guy and his ColorGhears seem like a solid product.

Soon. Not yet available. But CG Pro will work with both the full and Lite versions.

Just so you know, my ultimate goal was to turn ColorGHear into an interfaced based plug-in that would basically put the power of a node based, Davinci-like program into your NLE and/or Compositing program. But that requires programming skill way beyond my knowledge. So, since I can't program something like that to help you... you get CGT and CG Pro instead, along with my knowledge in the form of tutorials.

@shian Thanks for the answer. I'm also more after the tutorials but also interested in speeding up my grading process. Zilk, please share some of your work!

I think it was right there in the first, free primer video he states it's basically all levels and curves. The catch is, and it's a superb endorsement for his technique, both of these tools have been in, like, v1.0 of After Effects and almost every other tool that allowed color correction for video. This is the first time I've seen color correction this extreme and this vibrant demonstrated so well starting with non-444 sources.

The better stuff out there, the footage that got me excited about shooting with DSLRs, the look is always somewhat muted and controlled, so that its MP4 origination doesn't call attention to itself. The way Shian was able to make the signage in Andrew's Japan footage pop the way it does, without falling apart, that was worth $50 just to see how that was possible.

I'm itching to put some files through a full pipeline of Flowmotion (or bigger patch, I need to upgrade my cards first) + Windmotion (444 upsample) + Film Convert + ColorGhear!

;)

@shian just one quick question - when talking about exposing in the zone, how would I go about using that principle in broad daylight, lots of blue's, skies, water...long shot stuff

What should be my primary reference, GH's lightmeter or histogram?

@shian Question for you: have you experimented with doing certain "GHears" or tweaks with other than the normal blending mode? I've gotten into the habit of doing certain types of effects to a copy of a clip and then compositing this result over the original using COLOR. I wasn't sure, but this seems to work just fine with your ColorGHear methodology.

Specifically, I see better looking output from the grain killer when its layer uses the COLOR blending mode. A/B between the result both ways and see if you agree. Tiny detail, represented by luminance, stays intact while the noisy color channels get smoothed out. I've also found your grain killer node works quite well with applying a median filter at about 3 (and also using COLOR for blending) for 1080 footage I've found. The two of these ganged up look like they're smoothing out some really bad, highly saturated and medium luminance blues especially.