SpeedGrade

[Paul Lee]

Anyone using it? Thoughts, comments, etc.?

[Grant H]

Used it very briefly last night with some test footage (1080p 5DII material) and it crashed spectacularly half way through a grade. Wasted around 20 minutes but was a painful enough experience to have me question using it.

[Andrew Allsbury]

Ditto, unstable and clunky

[Eren Ozkural]

I think Adobe purchasing Iridas and implementing Speedgrade into it's workflow is commendable but there's one feature in particular that's stopping me from going into that route:

The "send to Speedgrade" option in Premiere should just open the original time line with original media, whatever the codec(s) like the "replace with After Effects Composition" feature. The reason why i'm over the moon with Adobe is because they've eliminated all transcoding to get into the edit. It's a shame to resort to a bottleneck during finishing.

[Brandon J.F.]

I think Adobe purchasing Iridas and implementing Speedgrade into it's workflow is commendable but there's one feature in particular that's stopping me from going into that route:

The "send to Speedgrade" option in Premiere should just open the original time line with original media, whatever the codec(s) like the "replace with After Effects Composition" feature. The reason why i'm over the moon with Adobe is because they've eliminated all transcoding to get into the edit. It's a shame to resort to a bottleneck during finishing.

I'm sure something like that will be added in the not-too-distant future.

[Eren Ozkural]

Oh I'm sure as well. It couldn't have been easy to integrate speedgrade into cs6 as quick as they did in the first place. I think I'll slowly start to learn the ins and outs on non mission critical projects until the kinks are ironed out :)

[Jim Hoffman]

I think of it more as a look whats coming. Round tripping is not available yet. It also has to render to DPX files at this time. The way it will handle layers and the new approach to color and contrast looks very promising. Curves are no longer. It's brand new and has to mature quite a bit to become truly viable. I'm excited to watch and see what happens. Seems like they are moving quickly.

[Mark Toia]

I thinks it in there best interest to get it round tripping sooner rather than later.... Before the adobe haters start killing its true potential with rumour.

[shashbugu]

I think Adobe purchasing Iridas and implementing Speedgrade into it's workflow is commendable but there's one feature in particular that's stopping me from going into that route:

The "send to Speedgrade" option in Premiere should just open the original time line with original media, whatever the codec(s) like the "replace with After Effects Composition" feature. The reason why i'm over the moon with Adobe is because they've eliminated all transcoding to get into the edit. It's a shame to resort to a bottleneck during finishing.

youvcan send out an edl or xml out if you want. Round tripping is the number one feature request in all adobe video apps. Dynamic link is far from dynamic. Speedgrade has been very stable for me using trial version. very fluid and stable.
Wish they had a denoiser and 3d tracker.

[shashbugu]

Used it very briefly last night with some test footage (1080p 5DII material) and it crashed spectacularly half way through a grade. Wasted around 20 minutes but was a painful enough experience to have me question using it.

unfortunately the worst footage on the planet for every application out there is 5D h264 footage. The programs all need to uncompress the h264 codec, even if done in the background like in PPro. its very heavy on the system. Thats why the 5Dmark 3 has the new intra frame codec, decompression is lighter making it more stable. if you can transcode to prores with grinder or whatever you will be fine eventhough this defeats the purpose of native editing or grading.