bluish - sony sensor - whadda ya gonna do? :(

TV LOGIC XVM245 24" Monitor - Supports 3rd party 3D LUT formats for import and export

Supports importation of 3D LUTs for previewing. So now you may create LUTs using CG Pro and import them into this monitor, and adjust your lighting accordingly.

So, what this means is: that nifty function on the RED Cams that allows you to see the effect of a LUT but not record it that way - you can now do that with your other cameras - You're welcome. [but most of the credit has to go to TV Logic for staying ahead of the curve]

Granted for most of us this would be a rental. The 17" is $5K but will rent for $200 a day.

http://www.tvlogicusa.com/product/product.php?model=XVM-175W

http://www.tvlogicusa.com/product/product.php?model=XVM-245W

And apparently SMALL HD monitors will have this function soon as well.

http://www.smallhd.com/products/dp7-pro/#public

pro member download page - only video on that page, explains it all.

BTW, I'll be in and out, as far as posting etc for a while. Trying to finish "What Lies Between Us." and I'm charting out some cool new tutorials for CG Pro, the Film School, and a promotional vid for Pro. Busy, busy, busy.

Hi @Shian, got a question for you. I am working on a project on FCP7 and after doing my grading with CGT, render and export using quick time conversion, the colors of my project in FCP7 looks great just the way I want it to be but that of converted file is off. They colors in the converted project don't look as bright or colorful compared to what's on FCP7. Any way I can fix this problem? Does it have to do with the fact that FCP7 is a 8-bit NLE software? Thanks.

I hear ya brother. I made so many mistakes that I wish I could undo but I made the film to learn and I really am learning. Does NOIR GHears help in case of non dslr footage? (I.e camcorder avchd)

@shian.. I'm totally going to get ColorGHear as soon as possible. I regret not waiting to get my hands on GH2 before shooting a black n white movie I did. It was shot on a cheapass sony camcorder. Do you have any tips to grade BW footage to give a noir-ish look please?

55 in FCP-X and DaVinci - so I'd say PP is inaccurate.

Thanks.

I've switched to Test Gear which gives me all my scopes inside AE, it seems to give me the same readings as FCP-X and DaVinci.

http://www.synthetic-ap.com/products/tg/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_LUT

@rajamalik A LUT is a Lady Underutilizing her Talents. You need the "Pimp Hack" to fix this.

I would never use FCP (or any editor) for what I use AE for, or vice versa. They're as bad at it as AE is as a substitute for a real editing program. Anyway, it doesn't surprise me that Avid would win in a contest like that. It was already a "secret handshake" sort of application.

AE interface is "terrifying"? I picked it up faster than Photoshop, and it's based on Photoshop. The only thing that would make AE better to me (besides making the color depth you choose the color depth everything works at, ffs) would be the option of working node-based like Nuke and (RIP) Shake.

Sometimes the timeline is fine but layer management sucks ass once you're doing anything beyond a few non-dependent layers. That track-matte business is garbage and it gets really inefficient, really fast. Still, it's cheap and there's loads of support for it, plus none of the node-based tools have AE's level of motion graphics prowess.

I wasn't really ever a fan of the original FCP (I think I used a bit of 2 and still have the install discs for 4 in a baggy somewhere) because my introduction to non-linear was Premiere which was so intuitive I only ever had to look at the manual for it, getting started, if I didn't understand some function on an options panel. It was lightyears more friendly than what I'd seen watching over the shoulder of editors at DD on the Avid and Cube systems, which had just wickedly awful UI.