FCE's Color Corrector

[Darrin Cardani]

At 3:52 AM -0800 2/8/03, Craig Busch <clbusch at earthlink.net> wrote:
>I would sure appreciate it if someone using Final Cut Express would 
>post a review.  I am
>especially interested in how the color corrector works.  A guy at 
>the Apple store said it
>had the same color corrector at FCP.  I checked it our and he was 
>wrong.  I was also told
>that the color corrector was real time.  I was told by a different 
>Apple person that it
>was not.
>I would like to hear from someone actually using it.

Well, I haven't actually used it, but here is what was demonstrated 
at the Chicago Final Cut Pro user's group meeting, last month:

1) Final Cut Express doesn't allow keyframing of effect parameters. I 
didn't believe it when I first heard it, but apparently, it's true. 
That alone makes it worth less than $300 to me.

2) The Color Corrector is the same as Final Cut Pro's "Color 
Correction" filter, which is different than Final Cut Pro's "3-Way 
Color Corrector". It's the one which has a single "track ball" and a 
hue wheel. It isn't the one which has 3 track balls for the shadows, 
mids, and highlights.

3) FCP's Color Corrector is realtime, so I'd expect Final Cut 
Express's to be also, but I honestly don't know.

Sorry this wasn't the definitive info you wanted, but hopefully it 
helps a little.

Darrin
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