[Tig] color

[Dick Hobbs]

I think Sebastian and I are probably in agreement here. There is no  
doubt that an experienced colorist could make beautiful images with  
Color in Final Cut Studio. But I doubt that it would be the tool of  
choice, because dedicated devices are so much more responsive. If,  
because of the lack of multiple levels of realtime processing, the  
slightly clunky workflow and the need to render, it takes the  
colorist two or three times longer to use Color than a da Vinci or  
Pogle, then the bargain price of the equipment starts to look much  
less of a bargain.

What products like Final Cut Studio do is enable very large numbers  
of people to try something out. Most will produce something truly  
awful, but it could be that someone with a latent talent for colour  
discovers it by playing with Color. Which would be a good thing.

Dick



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On 1 May 2007, at 16:16, Sebastian Sylwan - LIST ADDR ONLY wrote:

Dick,

don't you think the tool doesn't define the quality of the job ?
I believe today the most experienced colorist, if working as a favour  
for a no-budget movie, could probably make great images with FCP-color.

Tools do not substitute talent, but real talent doesn't rely on the  
tool.

The issue is as you say that there's now 800.000 people fiddling with  
it, and more talented people will find their way to naking great  
looking images, albeit with more technical difficulties.

Also, the curves of innovation for software running on commodity  
hardware (provided the direction is similar) is much faster than the  
dedicated hardware approach.

My .02 $

S

At 08:48 AM 4/26/2007, Dick Hobbs wrote:

> Yes, I think that Color is a big deal in its way, but I am not sure
> that its way has much to do with the professional colorist.
>
> No-one, I think, who has any serious knowledge of colour correction
> seriously expects a software application that runs on a desktop
> computer to be a proper colour processor. Even given the eight core
> Mac that we all secretly crave but cannot justify buying, it is never
> going to be able to do the realtime stuff that Pandora's Revolution
> board does so remarkably - almost unbelievably - well (other colour
> processors are available).





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