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ColorGHear TOOLKIT- color grading SYSTEM for AE
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  • IndianaPeteIndianaPete

    I want to second how good this tool kit is. It's packed with great options. Also how good the tutorials are. I'm an intermediate AE user and I've learned a bunch of great little tips and tricks from you. Your experience shows and I appreciate you sharing the knowledge. Keep them tuts coming... : )

  • RRRRRRRR

    awesome work @shian.. I haven't been able to keep up with all the added tutorials etc, but I'm really hoping to have time to dig into it and use it practically soon. I've been fishing for a job that would be a perfect learning curve!

  • shianshian

    Another "Finally". I finally got part 1 of the Masks and Tracking Tutorial to successfully export. I had to re-record some of it, but It is now live on the site. It's a fun one, so enjoy.

  • shianshian

    FINALLY!! I am dead tired, BUT Legacy support for CS4, CS3, and 7 Pro is now enabled. I can finally take a day off.

  • stoneystoney

    @artiswar Nice job and wish you more success!!!

  • artiswarartiswar

    @driftwood

    Appreciate what your saying. You've put in a metric shit ton of work just on your own. Just thought you'd like to hear my "results". Due to the image quality of your hack, along with some of my skills I've got my first and second paid jobs of my fledgling career and am starting a feature on a low to no budget feature with a peer of mine. Much of my success right now can be attributed to the versatility you've provided me. So thank you. I'll be sure to credit you, good sir.

  • driftwooddriftwood

    @shian, tired... very tired... I don't want praise, I want results. Your work is outstanding. And that's all I care about. Tomorrow, Im gonna buy your plugin.

  • shianshian

    @driftwood All I see here is people singing your praises, myself included. What's with the venom? Your work is outstanding!

  • driftwooddriftwood

    Listen up, if you want shit, you'll settle for shit, thats all Im gonna say.

  • shianshian

    if you use my 444 Linear Off setting as your default it will warn you of a color space mismatch when you go to render.

    But keep in mind, your dynamic range will change drastically from 8bit ot 32bit, so certain shots will look dramatically different from 8 to 32.

  • No_SuRReNDeRNo_SuRReNDeR

    If you started in 8bit and you well....say maybe....forgot to click the color space up to 32, can you simply change it to 32 before export? Not that I would ever screw up and do... that...it was some guy I know.

  • artiswarartiswar

    @spacewig - This test that I uploaded as well as a forthcoming skateboarding video were all heavily graded from MTS. I think as long as you're working in 32 bit color space you'll be fine.

  • artiswarartiswar

    In @driftwood, we trust. The export time on this was not half bad. I think it took about an hour and a half on my 2009 17" MacBook Pro with 4 gb of RAM. My next project, however, with the "Film Grain" gear and Neat Video is pushing 12 hours.

    Really digging the workflow, though. I did this without a technical grade and just threw some gears on it. Worked well. Especially love the opacity control on adjustment layers in conjunction with CGT.

  • spacewigspacewig

    @shian Excellent to know! Thanks for answering. Cheers.

  • shianshian

    @artiswar very nice! It makes me proud to see such great looking footage. As soon as I get out from under this current workload, I'll be shooting on 9b some myself. Nick Driftwood is a god.

  • shianshian

    @spacewig you're fine either way. There seems to be a debate on whether the files converted in 5DtoRGB are better than the raw MTS. They are definitely better than the files converted in FCP, so it's up to you, but I've been able to get excellent results from the MTS files.

  • No_SuRReNDeRNo_SuRReNDeR

    Oh cool very nice footage :)

  • artiswarartiswar

    @No_SuRReNDeR - It was all on the 28mm.

  • No_SuRReNDeRNo_SuRReNDeR

    @artiswar What lens were you using at night?

  • artiswarartiswar

    As promised, here it is CGT and Quantum 9b.

    Took me a total of 10 minutes to grade.

    Gears used on the night shots: CineGamma Simply Cool Dense Night

    Gears used on the day shot: CineGamma (slightly tweaked curve) Minus Blue Dense Night (Heavily mixed down)

  • spacewigspacewig

    @shian

    For those of us editing on PrePro CS5.5 on Win7, is it necessary to convert the files first or should we stick to the original MTS files?

  • shianshian

    I needed a nap while working on the Legacy versions, so I rendered this out for kicks.

    It's the version put together in the Addendum to Working with Sequences Tutorial. Considering the source file is an MP4 downloaded from Vimeo, it's not bad.

  • artiswarartiswar

    I'll be uploading a CGT and Quantum 9b test sometime tomorrow. A match made in heaven.

  • stoneystoney

    @shian The latest tutorial is simply awesome. Thank you!!!

  • RJHRJH

    @shian cool, thanks.

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