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  • Introducing Color reTooled – Color Correction Looks Presets for Premiere CC and SpeedGrade CC

    Color reTooled is a collection of over 55 presets for Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Adobe SpeedGrade CC.

    As an Online Editor and someone who cuts his own short films, I know that sometimes it’s a hastle to take your work into another program to do color correction and sometimes, you just want to drag on a few simple looks and go about your business. I also know that a lot of editors don’t enjoy or know how to color correct. That is why we developed Color reTooled.

    In Premiere, you can easily drag and drop the looks onto your clips. This makes it extremely simple for an editor with little color correction experience or in a hurry to make changes to the look of their clips. From the most simple brightness and contrast effects, to black and white, vignettes, and tints, there are looks to fit all of your color correction needs.

    Color reTooled is being launched today, to coincide with the launch of Premiere Pro CC and SpeedGrade CC. We wanted to make the package affordable on any budget so that productions from large to small get get up and running with the new Premiere and SpeedGrade interoperability.

    Click here to order! Color reTooled is on sale now! Just $12.99!

    See samples of all of the looks now:

     

  • Switcher’s Guide – Premiere Pro Speed Changes & Freeze Frames

    In this video we discuss the numerous similarities and differences between speed changes and freeze frames in Premiere Pro and FCP7.

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  • reLink reTooled Used to Conform The Bike Maker – A Made by Hand Film

    The fifth film in a series of shorts by Made by Hand was released today. It was directed and produced by Keith “keef” Ehrlich and edited in Final Cut Pro 7 by editor Matt Shapiro. The film details the story of bike maker Ezra Caldwell and his fight with cancer.

    After doing his offline edit, Shapiro had his color correct done by Jamie O’Bradovich at Company 3, New York. He got his files transfered to Apple Prores 4444 and turned to reLink reTooled for the conform and relinking process.

    Speaking to the conform process, Shapiro said, “The reLink reTooled app was incredibly efficient and easy to use. It made our conform process run extremely smooth when finishing our most recent ‘Made By Hand’ film. I can’t tell you how much time we saved over doing this manually.”

    You can see the full site here:
    http://thisismadebyhand.com/film/the_bike_maker

    The film has also been featured on Gizmodo:
    http://gizmodo.com/the-story-of-the-bike-maker-who-can-hardly-ride-his-own-507533391

  • The Project that Wasn’t at NAB – reTooled.net Joins AOTG for an Interview!

    You can listen to the interview here.

     

     

    It hasn’t made it to the iTunes version yet, but check out the link to the official podcast. Rate The Cutting Room, and show your support!

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cutting-room/id292530207

  • Premiere Pro New Features – The Crop Tool Now with Feathering!

    Who the hell needs to feather their crops!?

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  • reLink reTooled at AENY-Thursday April 25th

    I’m happy to announce that I’ll be doing a live demo of reLink reTooled for this month’s AENY meeting. We’ll do a few sample relinks and demonstrate how you can use reLink reTooled with your NLE to conform color corrected footage, and even how it can be used with After Effects or other compositing programs. Most importantly, I’ll be there to answer any questions you might have about the product. Be sure to get there on time, because we’ll be going on first!

    You can get the full meeting information here:

    http://aeny.org/2013/04/april-2013-meeting/

     

    Please remember to register with Eventbrite due to new security regulations:

    http://aeny13.eventbrite.com/

     

  • After Effects Render and Replace in Premiere Pro and FCP7 – Using reLink reTooled

    A lot of films, TV shows, and commercials use After Effects as their go-to motion graphics, visual effects, and compositing platform. In some workdlows, its okay to render your final out of After Effects, but personally I find that workflow too limiting. After all, how often is an edit really “locked” when your client, producer, director, etc. say that it is? And to start tweaking an editor or worse have to play back edit changes from After Effects, isn’t ideal to say the least.

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  • Conform in your NLE with Our New Software

    Anyone who works in a facility that works with an offline and online process probably knows that the online, or conform, process has typically been handled by the big guys. Smoke, Flame, Pablo, you know, the expensive ones. (Ok, maybe Smoke isn’t THAT expensive anymore, but you get the point).

    The main reason for this is trying to relink an offline edit to your trimmed color correct files has always been a nightmare. If you were to take an offline EDL or XML into FCP7 or Premiere Pro, and try to reconnect to the clips manually, it was an insanely tedious if not impossible process. Those applications want clips to be the same length as the original, the same names, the same frame size. With a color correct, however, that won’t be the case. Maybe you did your offline edit at proxy resolution. Maybe your file names have changed. And even if none of that happened, the clips length won’t match. When you edit, you edit with long clips. Then you might use a few seconds of a several minute clip. Color correct with a few seconds of handles, and want to relink. You might also have several source clips from the same original clip, necessitating new file names.

    That is where reLink reTooled comes in. You take your offline edit and export an xml. Then open up reLink reTooled, load that XML and point it to your new media. Then you can choose your relink criteria and save out an XML that references your new media. That’s all. I’ve been using this tool for many months now, and have put it to the test on large national clients. Using a combination of FCP7 and After Effects, conforms have been simplified and transformed from the days of capturing from a D5. The whole process is intuitive and simple. But your best bet is to just watch the video and see it in action. Check out a brief teaser above and a full demonstration below.

  • Premiere Pro New Features – Nudge Audio Volume with the Keyboard

    Another one that pretty much explains itself in the title. You can now easily make clips louder or quieter without ever grabbing the mouse!

  • Premiere Pro & SpeedGrade New Features – SpeedGrade Back & Forth

    Adobe acquired SpeedGrade just before the release of CS6, so the integration between Premiere Pro and SpeedGrade was fairly minimal.  (more…)