Adobe Speedgrade: Unreal playback.

[Andrew PC Smith]

Dear Adobe,

Whatever you did here, I want to see it go into Premiere and After Effects. Speedgrade really lives up to it's name.

I'll admit, I was a bit skeptical when Adobe was getting into video color correction. But unlike other competitors' first attempts, Adobe got this one right the first time. I get smoother R3D playback *with looks applied* than any other program... even Redcine-X Pro. Without conversion, I can playback at 100%, see exactly how it's going to look, with rarely a dropped frame. Truly amazing.

[Jake Wilganowski]

Man, adobe f-in rules. It will also be interesting to see the workflow for the 4k RAW files from the c500 this fall and how it compares to R3D's...

[Kwan Khan]

Your system specs please @ Andrew

[Subhadip Sen]

Indeed. SpeedGrade's performance is truly incredible.

Something I wanted to share - got hold of a HP ENVY Sleekbook 6z powered by AMD A10-4655M earlier this week. This is an ultraportable that is about 0.75" thin and should cost about $700 in the US when it launches there.

This little laptop can grade 1080 footage without a discrete GPU with SpeedGrade CS6 Trial.
Yes, you can now grade Full HD real-time on a budget ultraportable.

(PS: Doesn't work well on Intel ultrabooks though.)

As an aside - AMD has showed off tablets powered by A-Series APUs running Windows 8 at Computex 2012. Think about that - real-time grading on a tablet by the end of the year.
ASUS has shown tablet transformers with Core i7 and NVIDIA GPUs. Let's see where that takes us... But this is all a bit off-topic.

[Andrew PC Smith]

Kwan, here's my iMac 27" specs.

Processor 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4

No doubt would be even better with an nVidia card.

[Subhadip Sen]

No doubt would be even better with an nVidia card.

That assumption is usually made because AMD don't support CUDA. In this case, neither does SpeedGrade. In fact, it doesn't use traditional compute acceleration, rather using the GPU's shaders directly through OpenGL, which is the secret to its unrivaled performance. This also levels the playing field between NVIDIA and AMD.

By my tests, AMD Radeon HD 7970 is the fastest graphics card for SpeedGrade (till FirePro W9000 ships anyway...). It outperforms a similarly priced OCed GTX 670 substantially (and would a more expensive GTX 680 as well). That said, both are fast enough for real-time 5K grading (CPU debayer will be the bottleneck) and GTX gets you the GPU acceleration in Premiere Pro, so GTX 680 is the overall CS6 pick. On the mobile front, HD 7970M and GTX 680M are incredibly fast GPUs and offer performance on par with GTX 580. (Yes, the full blown desktop GPU that just a couple of months was a champion)

[Brandon J.F.]

What are the best tutorials for Speedgrade? Would be great if FXPHD were to offer a FastForward class for Speedgrade...

[Andrew PC Smith]

Here's something to get you started, Brandon: http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/adob...ade-tutorials/ The third one is tailored for the R3D workflow.

[Marcus Struzina]

Is there a way to view redcolor3 redgamma3 files in Speedgrade?

[Lin]

Is there a way to view redcolor3 redgamma3 files in Speedgrade?

It's in 6.0.1 - check it out: http://blogs.adobe.com/movingcolors/...-6-0-1-update/

Lin