Seems Apple’s inclusion of Color (formerly Final Touch) in their Final Cut Pro suite has rubbed a lot of folks the wrong way. I just took a 101 course on Color from RPM Post (after seeing their great demo at LAFCPUG) and the first comment of the day from Head-Honcho Neil Smith was “We bought this system for $25,000 and you just upgraded for $495.” Neil was being facetious and they’ve jumped in to the mix to offer great training on the application, but I’ve stumbled on discussions where hardworking professional colorists see their livelyhood being trivialized as once unreachable technology is released to the masses.
“Those of us who have made a significant personal investment both in finances and perhaps a decade or more (much more in my case) of building experience are seeing our “dues” go down the toilet. Maybe that’s just the nature of business. Too bad if it happened before anyone could defray the first wave of investment. The application for doing colour correction is being packaged with an editing suite at no extra charge — so most consumers of the software assume that they shouldn’t have to pay anything more for getting it right.”
From: http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/223/2026?pview=t
I’m working on a project with my father now that needs color correction and sound design. I’m not even a novice at either but I’m giving it a shot since our budget is ZERO. With the new technology available I hope to get more than what we paid for (anything’s better than zero…I hope). I truly respect the work of professional colorists and understand where they may feel encroached upon by non-professionals wildly shooting into the air with their new color-correcting guns. We should all have a fun ride the next couple of years as this next stage of reduced barriers to entry is rolled out by the fine folks at Apple. ;)
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