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Old March 22nd, 2010, 11:45 PM   #1
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Firstlight = Awesome

Since all of my posts on this board were pretty much problem/issue-based.. just thought i'd do a 180 and go the "showcase" route and say after about a day messin with Firstlight.. i may hardly ever touch magic bullet again.. the program kicks ass... makes my 5d footage look awesome.

btw, saying that 180 analogy reminded me of how the first time i attempted to use that analogy is used 360 instead
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Old March 24th, 2010, 05:32 PM   #2
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good deal. This is a question for cineform but i'm sure they'll see this, so is there an upgrade path for Neo Scene customers?
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Old March 24th, 2010, 05:56 PM   #3
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All NeoScene users get a full $129 credit toward Neo HD, which includes FirstLight.
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Old March 25th, 2010, 05:53 AM   #4
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I agree with Marc. Had I realized how great FirstLight was, I wouldn't have wasted money on Magic Bullet. I give major credit to Cineform also for the great discount incentive for existing NeoScene customers. It certainly made my decision much easier.
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Old March 25th, 2010, 09:09 PM   #5
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I haven't really played that much with first light - but id really be interested in knowing what you do when you need to key frame exposure when you have a continuous shot that requires it? Also what do you do when you need to lighten up a specific region (someones face) and track the movement of it over the clip?

As I understand it the power of FL is all in the real-time but the trade off is that you are hamstrung when you need to do anything complex.
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Old March 25th, 2010, 10:21 PM   #6
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Paul, hardly hamstrung, you can still use everything else with FirstLight. Do you base corrections in FirstLight for speed and power windows in your NLE for the elements that need extra work. Keyframing will be in V5.0.
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Old March 26th, 2010, 10:06 PM   #7
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There I was perfectly satisfied with ignoring First Light

So I was perfectly happy with NeoScene, until I read this thread. So I downloaded the NeoHD trial..... dang it.... now I will be dissatisfied again.......
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Old March 27th, 2010, 09:32 AM   #8
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All NeoScene users do get a $129 credit towards their NeoHD upgrade -- a little more incentive.
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Old April 9th, 2010, 02:43 AM   #9
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if anyone's bored, this is the project i used firstlight (for the first time) on, that caused me to write this thread. as u will see i went sorta nuts with the presets, lol. but, in all honesty, i will vouch for the 5dm2/premierecs4/prospecthd/firstlight/encorecs4-bluray combo.. as i was able to post this under a very very tight deadline, with no major or minor problems... not even audio sync issues!

(btw, u have to go straight to the link, i turned off the embed on purpose)

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Old April 9th, 2010, 09:32 AM   #10
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Hey that is petty slick, nice work.
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Old April 9th, 2010, 12:36 PM   #11
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Amazing work Marc!!
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Old April 9th, 2010, 04:11 PM   #12
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thanks guys! appreciate it.
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Old April 9th, 2010, 08:52 PM   #13
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First Light is better than sex. David, make a t-shirt.
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Old April 14th, 2010, 05:44 PM   #14
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Hey Marc... Michael Bay would be proud! ;)

Seriously though, very nicely done, congrats!
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Old April 14th, 2010, 06:42 PM   #15
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Having problem with Cineform First Light.

First Light is a great piece color correction tool, but i'm having problem exporting cineformHD files out of premiere with the firs light corrected footage.When i playback the footage in timeline, its fine looks fantastic with the corrections, but when I export it, the correction doesn't show up, the file is exported without the corrections.And when I pause in the premiere timeline nothing shows up, it only shows up when I press the space bar to play the timeline.Can anybody tell me what is wrong with the firstlight?

2 quadcore Intel Xeon 2ghz
8GB RAM
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Cineform Prospect HD 4.3
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
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