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.

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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.

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.

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

@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.

The forum is live.

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

what's happening?

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

@shian , great, thanks for sharing!