tools tested with Final Cut Studio 2 and 3 (Final Cut Pro 6 and; 7, Color 1 and 1.5, xml version 4 and 5)
- Charbon-Studio Profiles to make Color faster
- luts to improve the handling of dpxs files on Color
- batch modify the shots of a Color project
- gather the dpxs rendered out of Color
- repair the looping bug with spanned r3d files
- batch transfer the grades from one Color project to the other (aka start new without starting from scratch, do not lose your grades)
- update an fcp timeline so as to use the very last renders from a Color project
- inside a Color project
- solve the crash on save bug of Color
fix Color's crash on save bug
- some versions of Color 1 seem to be stuck when saving
- actually Color is not stuck, it's 'only' trying to compress the whole 'Documents/Color Documents' folder, which can be very long if there are render files in it
- it's a Color bug, which calls badly the shell command 'tar'
- there are 3 solutions :
- when Color is stuck on saving, open the terminal and enter the command 'killall gzip' (without the '')
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download and launch this application : fix tar for Color
- it replaces the normal 'tar' binary with a small script, that does nothing when called badly by Color, and calls the normal 'tar' otherwise
- to set the system back to its original state, suffice is to launch a second time fix tar for Color
- the application is open-source and can be opened in Applescript Editor
- technical nitty gritty
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Here is the exact call to tar that is made by Color :
tar -czf -C /Users/USERNAME/Documents/Color Documents/ --exclude=StillStore --exclude=FinalPrint --exclude=Archives PROJECT_NAME.colorprojThere is no archivename, so tar uses "-C" as an archivename and compresse all the folder ~/Documents/Color Documents/ in the file /-C
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a correct code would have been :
tar -czf ARCHIVENAME -C /Users/USERNAME/Documents/Color Documents/ --exclude=StillStore --exclude=FinalPrint --exclude=Archives PROJECT_NAME.colorproj
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Here is the exact call to tar that is made by Color :