Return-Path: Received: from nova.lunarpages.com ([67.210.126.175] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4734911 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:20:52 +0200 Received: from 70.91.57.77-busname-panjde.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([70.91.57.77]:27203 helo=[10.1.10.39]) by nova.lunarpages.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1Sbek6-0006QC-JX for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:23:14 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Subject: [AE] OT: my head will explode From: James WIlson In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 17:23:14 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - nova.lunarpages.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - media-motion.tv X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jwmm.com I know a lot of you guys do color grading in AE, but I've always found = it had to work in for several reasons, but... I was pretty excited about getting the new CS6 with the SpeedGrade and = all that CS6 tight integration with AE, PPro and all, but I've sadly = found that there's no support anywhere for Kona3 in the grading world = for me at the moment and my head is going to explode because of it. Can = someone talk me down from the ledge? AJA just released the new CS6 plugins, but AE was already seeing my card = right out of the download =96 now PPro can output to a broadcast monitor = too, great! But grading in PPro or AE is not appealing to me ( lack of = any real software scopes active during playback, don't have any hardware = scopes, PPro's 3-way pales compared to Apple Color, etc. ) and there's = no support for SpeedGrade. There's no support for DaVinci. Apple Color's = output breaks in Lion and won't be supported by Apple. I have a Quadro = 4000, but I'm not getting the SDI version ( why would I with a Kona 3 ). I guess I'm hoping that someone out there, somewhere, could give me an = inkling of how anyone is currently grading with a real external monitor = from a Kona3. I think that the upgrades in PPro and AE are all great, but SpeedGrade = seems to have been really rushed. I think I'll mix a cocktail now.=