Also, you'll be in a better position to judge any shortcomings they may have and then determine if it makes sense to purchase another plugin.Cinema Grade is a modern color grading software built from the ground up that runs as a plugin inside of Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro X on the Mac. If you get familiar with them I think you'll find that they will be satisfactory for your needs. I agree with the many comments in this thread about the effectiveness of Color Finale (Pro), but still, considering how you are using the footage I stick with my initial suggestion to use FCP color tools. We do have the Color Finale Transcoder plugin for FCP, and also Edit Ready standalone app which can process braw files and prepare them for FCP, but we have found on more than one occasion that saturation and contrast seems to get a bit off using those methods compared to letting Resolve handle the clips directly. We seldom edit anything in Resolve, but we might for very small and simple projects just to keep it all self contained. If we are doing any editing, then we export to a Prores version and import that into FCP. For all braw footage requiring color grading we import to DaVinci Resolve, grade and export in whatever codec is required. Some of them want color graded footage, some want only basic corrections, and others prefer the braw files directly. We shoot a lot of Blackmagic Raw footage for National Media firms, Marketing Companies and Post Production houses. When you need to use Resolve, do you mean you round trip from FCP to Resolve? How do you do that? The last one is a bit dated, but these presets still work.
Here are a few articles of mine that might be helpful:įcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/2234-advan.-with-color-finale-2įcp.co/final-cut-pro/tutorials/2261-colo.-for-final-cut-pro-xĭ/1/si.or-workflow-in-fcpx/įcp.co/final-cut-pro/tutorials/2316-five.s-in-final-cut-pro-xĭ/0/fc.color-board-presets/ For most basic videos, I can get similar results within FCP and the roundtrip isn't worth the effort. I also wouldn't recommend Resolve for this type of casual grading, because it's grading tools are complex.
If you don't really have this need, then the color tools within FCP is more than acceptable.įurthermore, you can create plenty of "looks" and save them as color presets, which effectively does much of the same as most of the "look" LUTs that are out there. However, Color Finale is intended to turn FCP into a serious color grading platform. I like Color Finale and have written several reviews, as well as aided in writing their user guide. There are a ton of color correction options, but if you are a hobbyist, I really see no reason to buy a color grading plug-in. I think I will start be trying to get better with FCPX. Probably I do not want an extra step running it through Intel Exporting 8K ProRes from FCPX on metal is a breeze. Yes, starting FCPX thru the terminal window and running it in Intel is painful.
If they can't answer even a simple question, they obviously can't support a customer in other ways. They infer on their site that it may be compatible, but I wanted to verify it. CF, I have contacted their support team 3 times now to ask if CF is M1 Native, but they haven't replied even once.
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So while it worked well on my Intel Mac Pro, I won't be using it on my new Mac Studio Ultra until it's 'fixed'. Not ideal at all! They state that a change is required in FCPX programming before they can convert it to M1 Native compliant. Currently CG can only be used with FCPX in Rosetta mode. BUT, one flaw right now IF you are on an M1 computer. I have used Cinema Grade for quite some time and I find it quite intuitive and worth the price.
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