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ColorGHear TOOLKIT- color grading SYSTEM for AE
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  • MarkVMarkV

    @shian

    "Teach me these things without raping my bank account."

    That's exactly it. You probably have an idea how expencive is to study on private film school. That's a extreme bank account raping. Now I feel I'll learn new, advanced stuff from your film school because you are doing it right and because you are actually doing it. School teaches me history of film, that's of course ok, but no one will ever tell me (well.. us) there what contrast means, how it affects image.. That's a bad film school.. I'm the only one that complain about this... nobody cares.

  • shianshian

    OK. I have been away from using PP for about 6 years now, so I'm practically a newb getting back into it. And so I have a question for all of you PP users. I can't seem to save multiple effects together in one preset, which means I have to do it in multiple individual presets which makes ColorGHear infinitely more complicated to use in PP, yet anything I grade in AE, comes back from the round trip into PP looking just like it did in AE, so how the fuck is PP employing the layered GHears??

    AM I missing something, cuz I can't even dig into the comp in PP to see how it is accomplishing this.

    I'm using CS6 across the board.

  • pvjamespvjames

    @Shian: i'm still on CS5.5 but i can't imagine it is different on CS6.

    1) Load a few effects on a clip.

    2) Select each effect in the effects control with (Commandkey)

    3) Hit (Ctrlkey) over the selected effects and 'Save Preset'

    4) Name Preset

    5) Delete all effects in Effects Control tab.

    6) Goto Preset Folder in Effects Tab.

    7) Drag Custom Preset onto Clip.

    Done. Is that what you wanted?

  • shianshian

    @pvjames yes, thank you! I was using shift not cmd. Okay. That makes things a little easier.

    Now I wish PP had the same effects so I didn't have to spend so much time trying to figure out how to duplicate the AFX Ghears...Hell, at this point. I'd be happy if everyone could just simply import the AFX Ghears. It'll probably take me another month or so to get the PP version working.

  • atticusdatticusd

    @shian Thanks again for your amazing work. The tutorials alone are such a bargain at the price... ...that's almost ridiculous. Any plans to make the tutorials and the film school videos available to download. I find myself offline from time to time and it would be really useful to have the videos on the hard drive.

  • peternappeternap

    @shain I have had CS sitting on my hard drives gathering dust all the way from CS3 to CS5. I made the jump to AE and PP just because of Color GHears and believe me, trying to learn the three at once is no fun,,,so I feel your pain, but am honored to be in such distinguished company.

  • shianshian

    @atticusd this is something I get asked a lot. The tutorials are the most valuable part of ColorGhear, and right now I can't afford any effective DRM to protect that content, besides the one currently in place. The moment...the very second that I can, I will. I understand your position, and am always exploring options to eventually make that possible...including an iOS app, android, and other options. But until CGT hits critical mass and is as well known as MBL and Colorista, I won't have the firepower.

    The quicker the general filmmaking public catches on to just what an unbelievable bargain CGT and CGFS are, the quicker I can make that happen. But as of right now, we're the best kept secret in filmmaking. Not through a lack of trying to make it NOT a secret.

    I suppose at some point I'll have to actually shoot web commercials for both. I hate having to pitch my wares, but I guess there's no other way to get the message across.

  • B3GuyB3Guy

    @Shian keep doing what you're doing. I'll get in on the action as soon as I can, but college truly does rape your bank account. I'm in that terrible position where my family makes enough money that I don't get financial aid, but pigs will fly before there's a chance of us being able to afford paying. I'm in the hole, man. But as soon as I'm out, I'm grabbing a lighting kit, Adobe suite and going to town. My one chance to learn any of this stuff was this previous semester in LA, which turned out to be "here, you're on audio. hold this boom pole and shut up".

    I'm a custom major art student because the media communications major is an excuse for students to sit around and do nothing, and a way for the university to get camera operators for the football games. At least I'm learning the aesthetic stuff really well, but as far as technical goes, I'm on my own.

    Special thanks to P-View and @Vitaliy_Kiselev especially for providing a no-nonsense community in which explorations of all things awesome may take place positively and collectively.

  • duartixduartix

    @shian What won me instantly was this:

    but I'm probably not your target audience, I'm just trying to grade some home videos and make them look more appellative (is this an English word?).

  • atticusdatticusd

    @shian Don't worry about it. Just have to ask. In any case, sooner or later there won't be such a thing as being offline. And yes man, you gotta figure out a way to marketing the shit out of this, because you have something really special going on there. I mean, it's a winning product; the only step left is that the rest of the world becomes aware of that. Social media can go a long way, but you just have to know how to use it properly. As of today, I’m completely clueless, but maybe someone around here can help you.

  • RRRRRRRR

    @shian

    I'm wondering wether you could have any use for PS functions while working on PP ghear settings.. I haven't tried it myself but apparently you can use all the filters from PS in PP. It takes some time to render.

    Other than that, PP effects are quite slimmed down and it feels like a lot of things are missing for me, personally. I basically only use RGB curves and 3-way color corrector and occasionally the lighting effect.

  • shianshian

    Not the highest quality. Still waiting for my copy of the episode in ProRes to add to my reel, but a still frame from the youtube promo video for "Femme Fatales: Season 2". From the episode I DP'ed called "Hell Hath No Furies" which will be a very Rodriguez-esque, 80's grindhouse style episode... ya know; hot women in overtly sexy outfits guns a blazin' -- complete with Emulsion scratches, mistimes, audio warping, grain, 70's style lens zooms, and freeze frames, and the most awesome end credit sequence ever....an homage to all the 80's P.I. and cop shows we grew up with. It's a fun episode.

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  • stoneystoney

    There go sparkling eyes and teeth. Nice.

  • shianshian

    @stonebat yeah it's a perfect example of getting that highlight without really affecting the contrast like I discussed in the tutorial.

  • ignatiusignatius

    @shian,

    Finally got some time to start watching film school tuts. Just want to say...great information! Keep it up (your time permitting) and thanks so much. Your knowledge and the content of the tutorials far exceed the asking price. I will do what I can and implore everyone to spread the word.

    High five to the main man Shian!

  • BadTripProjectBadTripProject

    @shian How would you grade this? I'm trying to achieve sick and red "porn cave" look. I'm not completely satisfied with my first attempt. If I remember correctly I tried "steel dirt" @ 33%, "grain killer" @ 33%, and there were 2 others but I cannot solve those name because I didn't rename adjustment layers :/

    There's coming red light from left side and neutral light from right.

    I think rabbit's face should somehow pop out but it's pretty tricky to add mask and motion tracking to it because the horse passes he's face at some point. Any tips for this?

    Oh and there's also some smoke in the scene.

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  • shianshian

    @badtripproject try the red tone monster.

  • shianshian

    The forum is live.

    EDIT: nevermind... it's still not working.

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  • TommyboyTommyboy

    @shian I doesn't really work as intended.

    "So, to be clear. You'll need to be logged in through your existing membership to even access the forum, and logged into the wordpress module to participate in the forum."

  • shianshian

    what's happening?

  • TommyboyTommyboy

    When, I try to access the forum I get:

    Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.

  • shianshian

    dammit. Alright... forget it. I'll have to put it on the backburner again.

  • shianshian

    A user not on the boards sent me this. Very nice work with unhacked GH2 and CGT

    watch on vimeo for HD

  • fehafeha

    @shian , great, thanks for sharing!

  • BadTripProjectBadTripProject

    Getting there...

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