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New Baselight for Final Cut
Feb
It is clear that we are in a time of business model change in everything related to audiovisual production and postproduction. Especially the debacle is occurring among high-end color correction and compositing systems, driven by the crisis and by new/old players, with a pricing policy so aggressive that in some cases it reaches total free of charge. This is the only way to understand initiatives like this, Filmlight has decided to release a version of its Baselight color correction software as a plugin integrated within Final Cut Pro.
For those of you who don’t know Baselight or think I’m being too radical in my remarks, just know that, in terms of hardware and speed, it is among the two or three fastest color correction solutions in the industry. It runs on very special Linux workstations and uses its own hardware to split the images and work with a cluster of machines, which allows real times at very high resolutions (as always, it’s not Lourdes, but it’s os*** fast :)).
The really curious thing is how they are going to get similar performance on MAC OSX (and more now that Apple seems to be loading the Mac Pro range)… Here is the page for more information, there is also a video, but I have not managed to get it to work, so if you have more luck maybe you can expand the information. You also have a link to pre-register and have information about availability, trial versions and so on.
More information about Baselight for FCP
By the way, for composition sufferers like me, they are also going to release a Baselight for Nuke…., I don’t know why, but they are going to release it, aren’t they?
