6 Replies Latest reply: Nov 7, 2013 4:31 AM by vilrockerdefer RSS

    First Day With Adobe SpeedGrade CC with Direct Link

    Dave Dugdale Community Member

      I thought it would be interesting to share my first day using the new Adobe SpeedGrade CC with everyone. Most would be embarrassed to do this, not me.

      This is NOT a tutorial, but more of a way to show you what I am struggling with and what I like. So if you are having your first day with this program you might run in to similar items.

      Perhaps even a product manager from Adobe might watch this and help him what they should work on next.

       

       

      Issues I had:

      • Where are the Curves adjustments?
      • How do I sharpen an image?
      • Can you use the tracker backwards?
      • Why didn’t my track work?
      • Playback at 10fps (not real time with my Monster Computer)
      • How do you blend layers?
      • How do you zoom into the timeline?

      Things I love:

      • Doesn’t crash like Resolve
      • DIRECT LINK!!!! Love it!
      • 2 up and 3 up for shot matching.
      • No more XML and EDL!!!!
        • 1. Re: First Day With Adobe SpeedGrade CC with Direct Link
          needles27 Community Member

          • SG doesn't use Curve adjustments...just something to get used to.

          • In the layer panel, click the + button, and you will see a list of fx and other goodies.  Sharpen is in that list.

          • In prefs, you can select resolution for playback and pause - if you aren't getting realtime, you can try and drop the playback resolution.

          • You can zoom into the timeline by holding Opt (mac...not sure about PC) and scrolling mouse wheel.  I'm sure there is another way, too...

           

          • Where are the Curves adjustments?
          • How do I sharpen an image?
          • Can you use the tracker backwards?
          • Why didn’t my track work?
          • Playback at 10fps (not real time with my Monster Computer)
          • How do you blend layers?
          • How do you zoom into the timeline?

          • 2. Re: First Day With Adobe SpeedGrade CC with Direct Link
            Dave Dugdale Community Member

            Thanks for your help!

            • 3. Re: First Day With Adobe SpeedGrade CC with Direct Link
              R Neil Haugen Community Member

              Dave,

               

              I'm basically a noob here too ... only been working with this for what, 5 months? 

               

              Yea ... would LOVE the option to switch to a curves-based control, one each for luminosity/R-G-B at the least. I've put in a feature-request for that, as have apparently some others. Maybe next year in ... oh well.

               

              Also ... you might have noted, there's no skin line in the vectorscope! Ridiculous, and that's ALSO been feature-requested by people ... again, maybe next year in ... oh well.

               

              Still ... but dang this program does work fast in concert with P-Pro as your NLE. One bit of advice. In a P-Pro/Sg/Ae workflow, the link from/to P-Pro and Speedgrade works perfectly well both ways. HOWEVER ... your Sg grades do not come into Ae if you send the project from P-Pro to AfterEffects. Now ... if you save your P-Pro projects with it's Sg grades ... then open Ae and use its Dynamic Link feature to pull a P-Pro project into Ae, your grades from Sg come in just fine thank you.

               

              And anything you do in Ae comes into Sg on a different layer that you aren't allowed to 'touch', so you can do fx work afore grading and see how the footage looks including the fx, but you can't touch the fx layer of the timeline (other than to turn on/off visibility in the monitor) to do anything to it.

               

              Still ... easy workarounds, NO time to transcode/export/import ... glory hallelujah!

               

              Neil

              • 4. Re: First Day With Adobe SpeedGrade CC with Direct Link
                vilrockerdefer Community Member

                As far as I am concerned, it is also impossible to zoom in and out of the timeline.

                 

                The manual says if you click the "all" button you get a drop down allowing you to select either "master", "playhead", etc. But I don't have a drop down list, only a button.

                 

                Whatever I do, ctrl+mousewheel doesn't work.

                 

                Fred

                • 5. Re: First Day With Adobe SpeedGrade CC with Direct Link
                  Manuel LP Community Member

                  For zoom in timeline, in SG CC simply Alt+mouse wheel (Win), that's all. But with the cursor above the timeline.

                  • 6. Re: First Day With Adobe SpeedGrade CC with Direct Link
                    vilrockerdefer Community Member

                    Thanks ! Used it just one second after receiving the post. Should be stated in the manual ! Offline or online or both ! Just spent two little bit painful days because I couldn't know.