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i read your video description from 04/15/24. that means the fx3 is better now for cinematic? i read in the comments, that the battery of the fx3 runs out very quickly because you can't turn off the screen. but i think that shouldnt be a issue.. i have the sony a73 but i want a upgrade now and specially for video.. need help, i dont wanna spend my money badly :D
This video should have 1000's of more likes, Totally awesome. The GHB key board set up is worth thousands of likes alone. I do have a question though, I do not use Proxies at all M2 Studio Max here and never really need to but I do see in my Library I have a folder called Render Files and in that folder is another folder High Quality Files which get's HUGE and takes up a ton of space. When saving my library as a back up I erase all those files but what are they and can I erase them during A Project or will it screw up something? That folder get's huge during a project. Thanks for any information about that. I am in the middle of HUGE project and do not want to mess anything up. But would love to save some space if I can while still working on it...? Thank you! I imagine if I erase it, every time I open a timeline I have been working on it will have to render that timeline again before I can keep working on it?
Thanks so much man 👊🏼 So you can delete those with no issues. You likely have background rendering turned on which I highly suggest turning off. Press command and comma to bring up your preferences and it’s in the editing tab I think. You can erase all the render files you currently have too.
@@dylanjohndickerson Thanks, You are the fastest ever to respond..LOL Yes I saw you said turn that off in settings, I thought I had it off. But with that off, That means I have to continually render the timeline manually? I have like 30 projects currently in one library and wondering if also every time I open them it will have to render again if I delete those files? Hope that makes sense Thanks man
@@ekphotography You don't really need to have your timeline rendered. Unless you're really having trouble with playback, but in that instance, I'd just render that specific clip that's causing issues by selecting it and pressing Control R. Your project renders when it exports so it's not really needed.
Just got some video to edit with some unfortunate S's... It was awesome to find your video and make a huge difference with the audio- (De-esser 2!) Thanks!
Highlighted the first clip and did a crop. Applied copy. Highlighted two other clips. Went to paste but no box and just ended up copying original clip. ????
HI Dylan... thank you for these tips! However when I try to adjust the colour of the skintone, I find the vectorscope lines move up down left right, but DOESNT rotate 360 therefore no matter what I seem to change from the colour wheels or hue's, I can't seem to line the skin colour to the line, nor stretch it further than perhaps 10%/15% of the line length. its always slightly diagonally off the skin tone line. Hope that makes sense! Any tips on this one? :) thanks!
Thant's very odd. I've never come across that. Would you mind sending me a video or pictures of it when you get the chance please? dylan@dylanjohndickerson.com
So t-stops will always be higher than the f-stop equivalent, because the light transmission is always less than 100%? So an f/1.8 could be a t/2 or t/2.2 lens? So you'll get more background blurring than you're used to with a t lens?
I cannot get the software to recognize my camera. I’ve done EVERYTHING it will not find the camera to do the update and I’m losing my mind. Any suggestions?
Man, You explain that so extremely well! Thanks Dylan John! You´re one of the best FCPX educator on the Web! I recently had the Problem to colorgrade a 14 minutes music festival documentary. All shots had different exposure, Colors, Dark/light etc, So i was forced to colorgrade every single Clip. otherwise one setting didn´t match all other clips. Greetings from Germany.
@dylanjohndickerson Thank You for the informative video! Regardless of whether or not I use a specific FCP feature, I do like to see what people are doing with FCP. I shoot Travel Vlogs on my iPhone 14 Pro Max, and I’m happy with the colors in the video. There was only one Time I can think of where the actual color of a surface was different than what the iPhone showed on the screen, but it could be due to Lighting. It was very slight, so not a big deal. I’m not sure if the different color was in the actual video, but could have just looked different on the iPhone screen, I am not sure. Either way, I do not mess with the colors of my videos, while editing. I do not know too much about color grading or color correction. Since I edit to upload to RU-vid, and I am happy with the colors, I do not see the need to mess with the colors. I also don’t want extra work for my videos. I never shoot in Log, and only the normal color profile is used (except when I accidentally shot in HDR, for which I know FCP will automatically fix it on an SDR Timeline). With All of that in mind, I have some concerns. Does FCP only show the exact colors shot by the camera, or is there a chance of FCP changing colors on its own (apparently some people have had issues with this)? Also, is the AI Feature automatic, or does the user have to set the feature? I do not want FCP automatically messing with the colors. Thank You! All the Best!
Super comprehensive. Other videos didn’t explain things like why color wheel adjustments still didn’t look right. Thank you for the detail in this video!
I only use temperature and tint and I just really try to shoot in camera and do as little in post as possible. Took that theory from Roger Deakins. Also you should grab a bunch of old film stils and see skin tone line is way off and it still looks great. Even Joker is the same. And if there is a red hue cast from curtains, clothing, furniture you kinda want that there as it is natural.
@@dylanjohndickerson I saw that and I did I watched the whole thing. I wasn't necessarily referring to the video, I was just giving everyone my process when it comes to skin tones. Personally I think l temperature affects the hue the most. But whatever works for people is great. But when I started out I got really confused by so many people referring to the skin tone lines to find out soooo many movies don't even have the skin tones on that lines and still look great.
@@artofduke Temperature and tint sliders do affect the hue, yes. But they affect your shot gradually with your black point locked down, which is not always prudent in every situation. Knowing how to use the tools you have for different situations is definitely important. Ya there's definitely a difference between color correction and color grading. Stylized looks, like in films, often have skin swinging off the line, which is fine. However for most commercial work, RU-vid videos, real estate videos, etc, usually accurate skin tones are recommended.
@@dylanjohndickerson Right, like you said it all depends. I wasn't criticizing your video. I was just adding my two cents with my process, and I spend years confused trying to figure it out, I'm still learning, but I'm much less confused these days.
Thanks, D. It's too bad Apple's new AI tool doesn't get a better result, but your solution is so easy, you don't even need AI. Thanks again for another great vid!
Hi Dylan! can you make a tutorial on how to colorgrade like Gawx or emulate the film look in finalcutpro using dehancer or color finale Pro. I would like to see a tutorial from you before purchasing these plugins. Thank you so much!!
Perfect stuff. Color correction is something I have only really picked up doing this past year, and this sort of stuff really helps elaborate how its done. Thanks.
Found a bug where some footage will just freeze up rendering at frame 1 if you use the new Enhance Light and Color. I created a duplicate of a project, in the dupe I added the new Enhance effect across several clips (including the first one), and it brings FCP *and* Motion to its knees. This is on a M3 Mac with a 20TB RAID 2 array, so no it's not an issue of hardware.
I’m similar, brother! I like it particularly for the reason that I can jam to music while grading. It’s pretty difficult to do that in other parts of the editing process 😅
Did you happen to watch the whole video? Because I go over that. Often times, it’s not just your subject’s skin that’s off. So using only hue vs hue every time your skin tones are inaccurate will help you to get the skin tones on track, but you’ll be leaving other areas of your shot off as well. Give the video a watch or even better, join The FCP Color Grading Masterclass to learn way more 👊🏼 www.fcpcolorgradingmasterclass.com/
Thank so much for this information, this will help me streamline my process for correction and grading. I realized I was working in reverse hence a bit of inconsistency.
Another amazing video, thanks. Could you do a video for uploading to youtube with good quality and yet under the limit of file size? How to preserve quality.
I absolutely love that you included how white balance and tint adjustment sliders differ from the color wheels. Just confirming that the only difference is protecting the blacks. I've seen so little in explaining when and why one would choose this. I wonder if using a color chart might more clearly show how each works.
I actually show this in a video using a gradient in my Color Grading Masterclass. I have a shot with black in the bottom corner and it goes to white in the following corner. Using the temp and tint sliders with this shows them perfectly.
This is great if your clients are humans! Unfortunately my client is from a galaxy far far away :/ they literally don’t even have skin. It’s all fluff. Maybe consider including that next time you make a video. Stop cutting the fluff.
