Been wondering what Adobe would do with SpeedGrade?

Been wondering what Adobe would do with SpeedGrade?

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Adobe® SpeedGrade™ CS6

Craft the perfect look for every production

Bring professional grading into your productions with Adobe SpeedGrade CS6 software and the new Lumetri™ Deep Color Engine. Grading and finishing can dramatically transform the whole mood of any edited piece, and few professional productions are delivered today without a thorough color treatment. Now part of Adobe Creative Suite®, SpeedGrade CS6 opens up the full dynamic range of your footage, giving you the power to push your storytelling further.

Sporting a sleek new interface and engineered for modern file-based workflows, SpeedGrade CS6 is a native 64-bit application offering GPU-accelerated performance and broad format support, including RAW, HDR, and stereoscopic content. Work easily with footage from today’s digital cinema cameras, such as ARRI ALEXA and RED or with common post-production interchange formats such as QuickTime, DPX, and OpenEXR. Ensure all your shots are accurately matched and every project is beautifully styled using powerful layer-based tools for color correction and look design. Resize and reframe your final masters for virtually any display format, from handheld tablets to the big screen.

SpeedGrade CS6 brings advanced color grading capabilities to Adobe Production Premium, the Creative Suite edition production professionals rely on to get great results efficiently. Offering best-in-class applications for editing, motion design, compositing, and audio, this comprehensive post-production hub now offers professional color grading to a new generation of artists and filmmakers.

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ASC-CDL Support in LiveGrade

ASC-CDL Support in LiveGrade

The lastest version of Pomfort's excellent software for realtime color correction and LUT building now has support for both ASC-CDL and custom 3D LUT for log to video conversion. ASC-CDL is the industry standard format for exchanging primary color grading information between software to software, hardware to software, or any combination of the two regardless of manufacturer. The addition of this functionality to LiveGrade removes the limitation of it only being useful on shows where CDL isn't required. For most productions where digital color is being done both on set and in post, CDL is the only acceptable way to communicate color decisions from party to party as it's the least destructive in terms of being able to build on top of existing corrections. 

I'm just digging into this update so will be posting more as I've had to chance to test. 

In the meantime, here's some info about the new features from Pomfort -

Cube-o-Scope >>>

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Update

on 2012-04-06 01:35 by Ben Cain

Cub-o-Scope 3D LUT Visualization Tool. Amazing! I've been wanting something like this forever. The cube in this video is the basic Arri Log to 709 Look Up. 

LiveGrade to Scratch Lab

LiveGrade to Scratch Lab

Pomfort has added a native Scratch .3dl LUT output to LiveGrade. This LUT lines up in Scratch for color corrected file outputs very nicely. This is an outstanding workflow for generating dailies on commercial projects. Anything you would ever need to do for file generation you can do in Scratch and LiveGrade is a very fast and seamless way to generate LUT's for this software. Using the Avid Artist Control Surface with this software combo has sped me up considerably and closed a lot of the previous workflow gaps.

Update on 2012-03-13 12:02 by Ben Cain

For now, there is a slight gamma lift and color temp shift that happens when you bring LUT's from LiveGrade into Scratch. The workaround is to build a little offset into your Scratch template using the Matrix. I don't want to say the number I've been using and have it not work for others but you can easily figure out what it should by using the scopes in the software.