Picturequest wrote:

 

What about, having Premiere able to layer the LUT rendered in SG?

This is something we got implemented with After Effects and Photoshop CS6. While this is fantastic for previewing a look (= general mood), it doesn't allow for applying a mask or multiple masks, and it also doesn't allow to express a number of the fx filters in SpeedGrade that would require geometry (such as fxBloom, Gaussian Blur). Also, the denoise and the blur function in the secondaries can't be expressed in a LUT. All these limitations are due to the nature of a LUT.

The .Look format that SpeedGrade is using contains all the parameters (even in human readable form), so if you indeed go ahead with an official request, LUT is cool, .Look is great

Pat

Hi Karel,

SpeedGrade works well with stereo pairs - it even automatically loads stereo frame sequences or movie files. Here's some more info in a video tutorial on Adobe TV:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/cs6-creative-cloud-feature-tour-for-video/st ereoscopic-workflows-in-speedgrade-cs6/

Cheers,

Pat

Karel Bata wrote:

 

You can add your vote by making a feature request here:

http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

 

Except I don't see Speedgrade on that list...

 

So, yes, one of Adobe's strengths - dynamic linking. Please let's see that in Speedgrade please.

 

And have it work with stereo pairs!

aaah, I see! Then we better get you a way of adding to the wish list officially.

And I'd agree: you're presenting us with a nice challenge here

Pat

Jim Simon wrote:

 

people I know dont work on projects that ever experiences  "Final Lock".

 

This brings up a fair question.  What is the recommended work flow when client changes are requested?  Clearly, the reedit will occur in PP.  But how do we keep all the work we've already done in SG the first time 'round and apply that to the new edit?  Without Dynamic Link, what is the work flow in such a scenario?  Are we really forced to reexport from PP and redo all our CC and grading?

Hi Jim,

there's no perfect answer to this, but let me try to give you a couple of ideas:

• SpeedGrade CS6 has some very basic editing features (trim, delete, dissolve, insert black). While I typically wouldn't recommend using SpeedGrade for editing, it has been used in the past sucesfully to apply minor changes (something simple like replacing a title sequence, changing speed or some elements of credits, shortening one particular shot).
• If you only need to replace some shots, I'd probably send them to SpeedGrade separately, grade them, render them, insert them in PPro.
• If you need something like a different version for other distribution channels (like a horrible 4:3 for the next Lufthansa presentation of your beautiful 2.35:1 footage), that can be done in SpeedGrade itself by using the Pan & Scan track
• If you want to work with EDLs and keep the project "hot" for as long as possible, it might be interesting to look into the reconfrom option (this isn't documented yet as it was added rather late in the game - I hope to record a tutorial rather soon). Basically: this will work if you restrict your grading work to the initial layer stack presented in SpeedGrade. You can then use multiple Conforms in one SpeedGrade project and let the application identify which shots are the same from Conform to Confrom (and automatically apply grades based on Reel ID / shot info from the EDL).

I am sure other users out there have other ideas, but these are some concepts I have seen being used with good results in the past.

Cheers,

Pat