The AE renderer/engine is better. Better than "power windows" flexibility for as many levels of grading/correction as you care to do. AE also offers a better palette of tools for non-color tasks like titles, transitions and other image effects.

Yes. It's on the list of things to do :)

Never use Dynamic Linking - it's terrible. Just import your PP project using the import function in AE.

For why CG inside Resolve, watch this vid

@shian - cool. FYI i couldn't download the Pro Plus zip using chrome or Safari on OSX 10.8.4, the server kept finishing the download before it was actually down (maybe my ISP or another server has got an incomplete cache of the file or something). I ended up using Curl in terminal to download it and it worked fine. :)

@vicharris - haha. I should really upload the updated one, it's been at least 6 months since i changed it. :P

BMCC. It makes BMPCC footage a little dark, but I can make some adjustments and create one for the Pocket. I'm finding that I'm liking about 4 different flavors with different saturations along with varying white, black, and mid points, but I expose differently than others so the more samples I have the better I can make these.

I'm not placing white at 100 or black at 0 I feel giving yourself a little wiggle room is beneficial. But I'll make one that does do a proper placement for those who want it. There are like 9 different GH2 CineGHamma nodes, I'm guessing there will likely be as many BMD nodes by the time I'm done.

Personally, I prefer my BMD footage to remain flat when grading - especially when using the film stocks, but I know sometimes it helps others to quickly get that "video color space" display back asap.

With the BMD ProRes LUT: it will not be the only one. If you guys have issues with it, send me a very short clip of the footage you are attempting to convert with it, and a description of the problem and I will tweak it and create multiple options for you a la the multiple CineGHamma settings I made for the GH2

Also, in a week or so I will post a tutorial showing you how to make your own custom BMD LUT using Resolve and AE.

Just a heads up. Special savings period ends tonight.

New Blackmagic ProRes conversion LUT is now included in all new downloads of Pro and Pro Plus.

If you are like me, you've found that the Blackmagic to rec709 LUT that's included in Resolve makes your Blackmagic ProRes footage look like crap, so I've created a new one especially for ProRes files that will quickly make your flat BMD ProRes files look like "normal" video without blowing out the highlights and crushing the blacks. And it's been converted so it will not only work inside Resolve, but in Premiere, FCP 7, FCP X, AE, and SpeedGrade.

Also new, is a folder with all the LUTs in alphabetical order for inclusion inside FCP X using the LUT import utility.

BTW because it requires a $30 3rd party app to even work, and after trying to use CG Pro the way it was intended in FCP X, I've decided it's too memory intensive, so I won't be marketing CG as compatible with FCP X. It will definitely work inside of FCP X with great results, but it just eats up your memory and makes FCP sluggish. However creating LUTs in Davinci converting them in AE and applying them in FCP X is pretty awesome. I also don't like that the FCP X in-app color adjustments can only happen AFTER the LUTs and not before and/or after them. Which is very limiting.

All the new LUTs and options are available for download now from the Pro Member page.

Happy Holidays!

It has a "node" (or Ghear) for specifically handling the green cast of the GH2 and a few more that target gamma issues with Canon cameras, but I use it on everything from BMD footage, RED Epic, GH2, to my iPhone and my little point and shoot Samsung. It's designed to clean up and enhance any footage.

Just 2 weeks left to take advantage of the 30-35% off in the CG store. New contents coming as soon as I emerge from the studio - lots of CG pro tutorials coming for FCP X, Davinci, Film Looks --- and using AE as a LUT converter.

Happy Holidays, everyone!

@shian ...

I second Alienhead's comments, that a couple straight text-documents on use/suggestions of your Ghears & adjustments would be very useful. Less work (immediately) for you than doing a full-up "vidorial", and ... perhaps more useful than a video. We can print it out, have it sitting by our workstation, refer to it ... cool.

That said, when you get past the current grind, any more tutorials will be appreciated. I've especially learned from your example-of-shooting stuff also.

Neil

@shian, really like Colorghear LUTs and I've been incorporating them into my projects, and I'm getting some great results. One thing that would really help is to have more information on the LUTs and how to use them -- specifically, what order to use them in. Yes, much is necessarily trial and error, but some helpful specifics have been lacking, unless I've missed it somewhere. You don't necessarily have to make another video, what I'd like to see is just a written description of each as a reference. Or does that exist already? Thanks.