If it were at all possible to put GHrain Killer and the 3way into CG Pro - it would already be there. It's just not possible.

@shian

I'm super pumped for the Resolve version! I believe I've already bought the Premiere version, so is it just an upgrade price? I'm not seeing an upgrade option on the site? (Also, if I buy it now, can I download it later?)

per Vitaly please confine tech support questions to PM or email. There's also the forum on the CG website... in case I'm asleep.

@B3Guy email me and from your email address I can sort through which version you have, and advise you better. But yes, you can download it at anytime form the Pro Member page.

So the GHrain development is coming along nicely. Lots of options for heavy and subtle looks, successfully emulated Eastman EXR and Kodak Vision 2 stocks, still working on Vision 3. Here's an example of a heavy look.

Raw

Graded plus Vision 2 500T

I've created a development page where you can view and download full rez images without clogging the thread. So to see the full gamut of what's in the works go to:

http://www.colorghear.com/development

Will slam on Tutorials this weekend. Hope to have GHrain Overlay tutorials, GHear Overview, and the magic of using each platform for it's strengths and porting results to other platforms up this coming week.

Some still caps of my screen in DaVinci from the tutorial I'm working on. Kodak Vision 3 - no grain. [edit] oops. I double checked the settings... this is Fuji 3513.

Obviously not full rez, just grabs of the viewer window in Resolve. Shot with Quantum v2 Panny Pancake 20mm.

@shian couple questions...

1) is your grain setup still using the AE grain tool, which is slow as f*ck, or are you generating custom grain files that will be as impact-less to a project as Film Convert's grain tool?

2) are you, in your Vision3 examples, creating conversion to a graded Vision3 or an accurate representation of how the stock responds, with no additional influence?

My point for asking is, I'm both a GHearhead and Film Convert customer and I'm not seeing actual apples-to-apples equivalency here just based on the imagery and the methodology you're describing to snipe potential customers of their's. Their standalone lets you play with grain and stock conversion in realtime on old-ass 2008 Core2Duo systems, fyi, and functions as a fairly robust "tech pass" interface for preparing your footage before actually grading in your look, however you decide to do that and in whatever package.

I think you'll see from this that it accomplishes everything I wanted it to do. Without blurring or softening it takes the digital edge off the footage. These are warmed up a little to give them more of a vintage look. But the blacks can be crushed, or just pushed down to give it more contrast, and a more modern look. And the highlights here are rolled off, but that can be altered as well.

stock used Kodak EXR 5298 - for easier viewing on flickr go here http://www.flickr.com/photos/76276262@N04/sets/72157632784156675/

For those having trouble finding the LUT folder in DaVinci, This folder is actually hidden by default on Windows 7. You have to go to windows explorer and select "organize" then "view" and click "show hidden folders."

It's likely the same on other versions of windows as well. When I was a windows user I would always have to go into the view options and check the box to allow hidden and system files to be visible.

@Shian, will the film stocks be available to CGT users, or just Pro?

@OzNimbus The stocks are pro only - the simplest answer is: because you don't wanna have to go through everything I had to go through to create them every time you wanna use them. And with CGT you'd have to. Lots of pre-comping stacks of GHears, collapsing transformations, applying transfer modes, adding more Ghears, etc. It's not simple. And the point of CGT and CGP is to be simple. IN CG Pro, its a 3 GHear combo, and then mix, add grain if you feel like it.... simple, and allows you to create up to 28 different stocks just by doing that, and the you can start branching out and customizing from there.

@MikhailiK I'd say hold off for a while. Like I said in the email this is a soft opening. Just for those who had to have it "right now." I'm not really promoting it yet, it's not really ready for new users, those who are already using CGT won't have any problem learning the Pro version because they've already watched all the CGT tutorials, so they know how the system works, but newbs could get lost very easily. So I need to finish another 4 or 5 tutorials before going into promo mode. At that stage I'll be making some videos that show off the new system, and better explain what CG is, and what it gives you. Pro does have some functionality in AE, but I've yet to create those tutorials so I'm not saying much about it. Pro doesn't work in AE as smoothly as CGT, and it's missing a few things that are exclusive to AE like GHrain Killer and Colorfist, etc. but because I'm having trouble with my video card and DaVinci not liking each other, but I'm able to port my DaVinci grades into AE and finish there.

BTW - CGT v1.1 is a free upgrade to you as a member. Just download it from the member download page, but if you are on CS4 or earlier the new GHears won't work, v1.1 only supports CS5 and above.

Quix question y'all

OK so I just edited my short short I shot on foot few days ago...I did all the editing part, the audio and cut the clips the way I want the final video to be.

Now, since I'm a CGH user, what would be the best way to grade this? Only two methods come to mind, holler if you have a better advice

1) grade clip by clip with "Replace with After Effects comp" 2) render the entire video and edit it in AE with CGH with adjustment layers going over each cut

Thing that bothers me about method 2 is quality loss (double encoding) and, how can I precisely transfer those cut points from Premiere to AE?

Thanks

@Riker just bring the Premiere file into AE, grade there, then render. You don't have to replace with AE comp, everything will be cut together when you bring it in AE. One of @shian's videos talks about the workflow and bringing in your cut/edited file into AE, grading, and then rendering.

watch the "working with sequences" tutorials