I’ll show you what they’re selling and then take you through how to use it in Final Cut 10 (using Overlay Modes and manipulating the Color Board to customize the ‘Look’ of the grain)… and then I’ll do the same thing in DaVinci Resolve (using the footage both with Composite Modes and as an External Key). I’ve recorded an extensive Video Review and Tutorial on Cinegrain. Just hook up the drive, import your clips, and you’re good to go. That’s why I call CineGrain, ‘A Plug-in In Your Pocket’ you can carry around with you, use it when you need and enjoy all the advantages of most film grain Plug-ins without the usual worrying if the plug-in is installed. These are ProRes movies on a hard drive… a small hard drive that fits in your pocket.Īnd in the Tutorial section of this review I’ll be showing you how you can use this footage (in Final Cut 10 and DaVinci Resolve) to gain as much flexibility with this footage as most plug-ins… and with much quicker render times. Specialty Lens Flares: Telephoto, Wide Lens, Vintage, Rotating Lens, etc.Flash Frames: Flash Frames, Light Leaks, Strobes, etc.Looks: Wookstock, Silent Film, Roswell, Full Gate with Keycode, etc.Optical Filters: Straw, Sunset, Grads, etc. Heads & Tails: Leader, Tails, Countdowns, Title Cards.Dirt Scratches: Heavy dirt, light dirt, heavy scratches, light scratches. Film Grain: 35mm, 35mm Dirt Fixed, 16mm, 8mm.Packages range from 50 clips to 400 clips clearly organized by category: The Cinegrain package includes 1080p and 2k ProRes video clips ranging in length from a few frames (film splices) up to 45 seconds (film grain). Since it’s not a plug-in it’s very easy on the CPU. But – it is a little heavy on your wallet… which is why I dig in so deep and show several different ways of customizing the footage for your projects. It’s not a plug-in – but actual scanned film. Product Website: If you want to add film grain or mimik certain types of film looks (Super 8mm, Silent Film, film flashes, lens flares) then the Cinegrain package of film footage may be right up your alley. In other words, convert the AVCHD files to ProRes422 before they even see FCPX.A Video Review and Tutorial What is Cinegrain? Shoot, then batch convert AVCHD to ProRes422 using an app like Pavtube MTS Converter, THEN take the ProRes files into FCPX for editing. SO, if you want to shoot AVCHD, I suggest you modify your workflow to something like this: I had to take the original AVCHD files, convert them with MPEGstreamclip to true ProRes422, and then use them that way. Upon further investigation, it turned out that the "optimized" files were still in the AVC codec, but just rewrapped in a QT file. When I take a project from FCPX to Resolve, Resolve ALWAYS chokes on the AVCHD files, even though they were "optimized" in FCPX. I shoot a lot with an AF100, recording ProRes to an Atomos Samurai, but sometimes, I have to rely on the backup AVCHD files that were recorded on the SD card. I only know this because it's a problem I have with it every time. You might have a problem taking your optimized AVCHD files from FCPX to Resolve, and here's why. If it matters, I my camera creates AVCHD files and I then optimize those in FCPX upon import (also creating proxy files). The company whose tutorials I buy for FCPX has a Resolve tutorial, but it is for version 8.įor my purposes, since I use stationary cameras without lighting changes, it would be easier to make changes to the clips in my Event browser before I start putting them in a project. I mean, isn't it like editing a picture in that every time you make changes to it and save it you are reducing its quality? I read something about XML files, but I can't find a lot of information. I take it you can do the Resolve Lite adjustments to your clips from your camera before you edit them into a project in FCPX, or that you can finish your project in FCPX and then edit the color in Resolve Lite.īut, either way it seems you would be losing some quality. Having watched a basic tutorial about it, I now understand it operates independently. I downloaded Resolve Lite thinking it would operate within FCPX, like an effect. I know a fair amount about FCPX, but I'm no expert. I am brand new to Resolve Lite, and starting out with version 9.
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