April 15, 2007
NAB: a colorful addition to Final Cut Studio
Posted Apr. 15, ’07, 1:21 PM PT by Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen
Category | Video
Final Cut Studio’s puzzle has a new piece: Color. Announcing this new “professional color grading application” at NAB today, Apple said they wanted “to do for color grading what we’ve done for editing”. Color is made to work hand in hand with Final Cut Pro to adjust color and all the good stuff that relates to it.
Color looks pretty sophisticated. It contains primary grading tools, those that let you adjust the color for the entire frame, and secondary grading tools, those that modify only a portion of the image: for example, only the clouds, or only a shape you define. That shape can have soft edges, rotation, whatever you like; it can even move with an object, say, follow a plane as it flies by the image. Plus, Color offers you 35 color effects, including Grain Reduction and Film Look, which you can customize to your liking.
By now, either you’re hyperventilating or you’re bored to death. Yes, I know, not everyone is a video pro, but those who are will be happy to know Color uses XML for its metadata and that it has “the ability to render out DPX files at full 4:4:4 2K quality”, whatever that means. It’s part of the new Final Cut Studio, available in May.
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You mean the built-in color corrector in the current version of Final Cut is not enough?!!
/sarcasm
Color correcting for movies is very expensive. It's nice that Apple is once again handing tools to non-professionals so they can create movies without gigantic budgets.
I'm no expert... (although I've used final cut in the past)... I think Color might just be the most valuable tool in the entire package. Final cut only lets you do so much... and there are plenty of other packages out there that do video editing... but precise color control can be REALLY EXPENSIVE. I'm super excited about it... and I'm not a pro videographer.
On a side-note. It seems Apple now has all the tools necessary to make their own PHOTOSHOP-type program. I wonder if they will venture into that area.