[Tig] color (was FT, that is)

[Tyler Hawes]

>> According to someone in the booth
>> at NAB, the resize is no longer rendered out of Color, like it was in
>> FinalTouch. Instead, the metadata for the resize effect is sent back
>> to FCP and FCP now does the resize internally.

This might be bad. AFAIK, Final Cut Pro renders all RGB material in 8-bit
still. As long as you don't alter 10-bit material, it's fine, but as soon as
you add a dissolve, motion effect, title, etc., that section is now going
through an 8-bit render pipeline. That is not acceptable for my work and
probably a lot of others. So I wonder, if FCP is handling the resize, have
they addressed this 8-bit render bottleneck?

>> Still Store Isolation - I agree with Patrick here too. <snip>I
>> don't know how much Patrick knew about the
>> wiping and keystrokes, so I can't say it was pilot error.
> 
> I must admit... I'm driving FT with a mouse. After speaking with a
> few colorists driving with a panel, this seems much less a concern
> for them (and most of the folks on this list). Once the Eclipse is
> released I'll test drive that and finally purchase a panel within the
> next quarter.

Ditto that panels make still store a lot easier. The bummer is you can only
split-screen (adjust tilt / position of split). FT doesn't let you do 2-up
side-by-side or any other type of comparisons. Hopefully they'll add this...

> In FT 2.7rc2 (a version that would never successfully render my
> ColorFX nodes) Apple implemented a fix where FT does a long autosave
> the first time you open a session file. Subsequent auto-saves are
> difference-based and work lickety-split. I imagine they wouldn't have
> backslid on this when Color is released.

FT 2.6x has this as well. It's also worth noting that while it's
auto-saving, all the panel functions still work so you can keep grading.
Even some keyboard shortcuts work, such as Ctrl+U (still store
enable/disable), or the copy/paste functions. So you can keep working and
minimize the interruption to the supervising client. A full save on a 20
minute reel still takes a couple minutes, though.


Tyler Hawes
Liquid DI, Santa Monica
www.LiquidCompanies.com