Adobe Speedgrade: Unreal playback.

[Todd Kopriva]

What are the best tutorials for Speedgrade?

There are more than a dozen videos here, most of which are by our SpeedGrade product manager, Patrick Palmer:
http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-speedgrade-cs6

[Brandon J.F.]

Thanks Todd.

[Rob Ruffo]

I love CS6 - and very much disrespect BlackMagic for destroying the markets they enter and stabbing their own paying customers in the back - kind of the Walmart of the production world - but really, how is this better than Resolve Lite? Why bother?

[Danko Dolch]

I love CS6 - and very much disrespect BlackMagic for destroying the markets they enter and stabbing their own paying customers in the back - kind of the Walmart of the production world - but really, how is this better than Resolve Lite? Why bother?

"...destroying markets..." Why do you think so?? I see Adobe & BlackMagic successfully bringing CC to the desktop lowering the barriers for talented artists and making advanst CC a fundamental part of todays postproduction.

This is good news!

What's expensive in color grading today isn't the licenece for MAC OSX or Windows and the licence for the CC software itself.

Whats expesnive is a good grading cinema - color managed monitoring - good quality panels - experienced artists and a good service for the clients...

And at the end that will make the difference between a laptop with a CC software licenced on it and a grading facility.

Exiting times for color graders today - it's no longer that "they have a XXX system installed"...

[Mathieu Ghekiere]

I love CS6 - and very much disrespect BlackMagic for destroying the markets they enter and stabbing their own paying customers in the back - kind of the Walmart of the production world - but really, how is this better than Resolve Lite? Why bother?

Why do you think Black Magic has destroyed the market? It's maybe much more lively than before.
They didn't kill Resolve, they made it better, and they probably will make it better again with the next upgrade.
I don't know why you said they stab their paying customers in the back? Because DaVinci went from 200K to 1K?
They weren't Black Magic's customers before they did the acquisition, right?
The color correction industry was getting democratized anyhow with Apple's acquisition of Color, and if they didn't do it, anyone else would have.

You could also say that RED Digital Cinema 'destroyed the market' when they suddenly released a 17.5k 4K Digital Cinema Camera. It's called disrupting the market. Sometimes it needs that.

Every change has it's own challenges. One of the main challenges used to to get access to professional material.
Now it's more of a challenge to rise above the thousands of others people that have access to the same tools.

[Hrvoje Simic]

how is this better than Resolve Lite? Why bother?

"Better" is a term relative to the context. The more complex the context is, the more specific factors of comparison are required.

In this example, the answer may depend on:

a) UI logic preference
b) expressive logic preference
c) workflow requirements
d) targeted outcome with regards to its path

[Stephen Gentle]

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...

Except that Adobe didn't write SpeedGrade - Iradas wrote the app, Adobe only bought them late last year.

[Lliam Worthington]

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.

Cheers Andrew that's what I'm currently cutting on too. There were a few people unhappy with SG performance and I was really looking forward to trying it out. SO really appreciate your post. Speaking of AE and PP though, if you haven't sent in a feature request to support the 6970 please do. And then the performance improvement we see with AE and PP should be equally if not more exciting.

Best
Lliam

[Blair S. Paulsen]

Props to Lin for his participation on RedUser. I understand that R3D workflows are seen as too esoteric to justify resource allotment for many vendors but Adobe and their new pal SpeedGrade have stepped up. Credit where credit is due.

Cheers - #19

[Dave Blackham]

It looks to me though Speed grade just stepped up a real big step in stereoscopic workflow and interoperability with the rest of the Adobe suite.

Whats the optimal hardware set up for Red stereoscopic grading for a Mac Pro ?