Exporting DPX files from Color

Exporting DPX files from Color:
Sometimes if you are finishing your project in a professional colour grading suite, or sending plates to a vfx house they prefer to have dpx files to work from. To create these deliverables from an FCP centric workflow follow these simple steps. This post has been written up with content from this creativecow thread.

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A beginners introduction to colour grading

A beginners introduction to colour grading:
Understanding the basics of color grading
Aaron Williams gives a fast paced but valuable 30 minute presentation to introduce color grading to relative beginners, giving a ’30’000 ft overview’ of the processes and techniques that can be used in Final Cut Pro, After Effects and Apple Color. He walks through several example shots demonstrating different looks and explaining the basics as he goes.

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Project X27 (10 to 7) - XML from FCPX to FCP7, Premiere, Color and more!

Project X27 (10 to 7) - XML from FCPX to FCP7, Premiere, Color and more!:

At LAFCPUG’s special meeting at DV Expo, Assisted Editing showed a new project called "Project X₂7 (10 to 7)" which lets you easily convert a Final Cut Pro X XML to Final Cut Pro 7! This is what Philip Hodgetts, whose day job is at Assisted Editing, wrote about this app:

"Project X₂7 (10 to 7), (...) takes the brand new FCP X Project XML export and converts it through a simple drag and drop applet to FCP 7. FCP 7 sequence XML is generated and loaded directly into FCP 7.

This allows you to take your FCP X timeline (Project) to FCP 7 or directly to Color, Adobe Premiere (and via dynamic link to After Effects) or other FCP 7 XML workflow."

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Bye bye Color, what now?

Bye bye Color, what now?: "
Yesterdays release of FCPx caused a lot of disappointment in the industry. The fact that Color is gone might be biggest one for us colorists. Apple has included some basic grading tools that are better then 3-Way Color Corrector, but to call it a grading tool is just not correct.
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Apple Color workflows

Arguably Apple Color is among the most frustrating pieces of
creative software around – frustrating because it is on one hand
amazingly powerful and on the other putridity inefficient and
dysfunctional. Simple tasks often seem far harder than they should be
and the round-trip between FCP and Color is not nearly as easy as it
sounds. It’s also a tool that makes all but the uber-nerdy feel more
like mathematicians than artists with an interface that just isnt
conducive to creative flow. If you want a colour-grading experience
that feels more like art than science RedGiant Colorista and
MagicBuletLooks are the tools to go for.

But, that said, with excellent secondary colour correction tools and
built-in motion tracking it presents two elements missing from
MagicBullet so it can be well worth the effort if you can wrangle its
quirks and issues into line.

Below is a set of good articles i've found that lay out different Color workflows and how to deal with some of its inconsistencies. Certainly we all look forward to the day when Apple finally convert Color from its clunky, linux-like interface into a real Apple-esque package with a consistent interface to the rest of the FCStudio.


Undertanding Apple Color Workflow

Color workflows with different types of sources

RED+FCP+COLOR: making it all work

And here’s also a 2-part video tutorial on the Color Workflow from FCP

FCP to Color part 1

FCP to color part 2


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