Colour wheel adjustments, however, aren’t reflected in real-time. A realtime experienceĪs soon as the colourist starts changing things in Color Finale, the clip in the timeline reflects those changes in near-real-time and the sliders in Color Finale move accordingly, so attendees can see what’s being adjusted. When the colourist starts going through the timeline, selecting clips in the process, each will show up on every attendee’s timeline. There, it will unfold as a timeline with placeholder clips. Attendees get an alert window offering the project files made available by the session manager which they can drag to the Events browser and ultimately to the Timeline. You can invite - send a token/password to - multiple people who can then all join the session. Sessions require no configuration on either end, use tokens as connection ID and are password-protected.
The developer believes, probably rightly so, that a Mac has plenty of resources to communicate without them having to add more complexity to Color Finale that can break or work worse than Skype, Zoom, Messages or what have you, so you’ll need to have a communication app launched for exchanging ideas, comments, etc. To keep everything as lean as possible, the Connect module does not have an integrated audio channel or other communication system integrated. This results in a very fast, close to real-time experience. If the receiver does have the original footage on their local workstation, nothing but the Color Finale adjustments metadata is sent across. If the original footage only exists on the broadcasting side, full-resolution single frames needed to display the grading changes will be sent over the network once, followed by adjustment metadata. When you join a session, the other side - usually a colourist - will transfer their project to you as an XML file, which you then drag to the Color Finale Connect window. The Color Trix server never stores anything you only initiate a peer-to-peer connection as it functions as a sort of switchboard. By joining a session, you get to see what a colourist is doing, while by broadcasting a session you can either be the colourist taking the lead or the editor being talked through a colour grading session by someone who has expertise in the area.Įither method opens a bidirectional channel that runs over Color Trix’s server. The Color Finale Connect module is a Final Cut Pro X Workflow Extension activated by selecting it from the Final Cut Pro X toolbar icon and either selecting “Join Session” or “Broadcast Session”.
We had the opportunity to run a session between London and Antwerp. The new feature allows a colourist to start a session over a network and/or the Internet with a director, DoP, other editors, an apprentice even. Color Trix has added a remote collaboration capability to Color Finale, its colour grading plug-in for Final Cut Pro X.