 Robbie Carman is a Colorist and co-owner of Amigo Media LLC a small finishing boutique located in Washington, DC with a focus on broadcast television and independent film finishing. Robbie has 12 years of experience in SD and HD projects including hu... [ more] Robbie Carman is a Colorist and co-owner of Amigo Media LLC a small finishing boutique located in Washington, DC with a focus on broadcast television and independent film finishing. Robbie has 12 years of experience in SD and HD projects including hundres of programs for Discovery Networks, National Geographic, PBS, MSNBC and others. Technical problem solving and workflow design are among his strengths.
Robbie is the co-author with Jason Osder of Final Cut Pro Workflows: The Independent Studio Handbook. Final Cut Studio on the Spot 3rd Edition with Richard Harrington and Abba Shapiro, Video Made on a Mac: Production and Post Production with Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe Creative Suite with Richard Harrington, and DVD Studio Pro 4 3rd Edition. From Still to Motion A Photographers Guide To Creating Video With Your DSLR with Richard Harrington, Jim Ball and Matt Gottshalk.
Robbie, contributed as the technical editor to Alexis Van Hurkman's The Encyclopedia of Color Correction for Final Cut Pro (Peach Pit),The Apple Pro Training Series book Color by David Gross and Michael Wohl (Peach Pit) and The Apple Pro Training Series book Final Cut Pro 7 Quick Reference by Brendan Boykin.
Robbie is also the author of Color Essential Training, Color 1.5 Essential Training, New Features in Color 1.5, Getting Started with Apple Color and Final Cut Server 1.5 Getting Started for lynda.com
In addition to to creative work, Robbie is also an Apple Certified Instructor and teaches all levels of Final Cut Pro Studio. He teaches and speaks nationally at conferences such as NAB, The Editors Retreat, The NY Post Production conference, and GV Expo
Robbie lives with his wife and daughter in Alexandria, VA. | | | | Member Since: March 20th 2007 | | | | |
Friends:  Darin Wooldridge  jake blackstone  James Sullivan  Joseph Owens  kim krause  Rohit Gupta  Tim Wilson | | | | |  | GUI LUT Any Chance?by Toby Risk 4 months agoHi It would be really nice to be able to have a 3D LUT applied to the GUI display only. Currently, as far as I can see all the LUT's affect all the outputs, which is limiting in terms of achieving acc | Re: GUI LUT Any Chance?
by Robbie Carman 4 months ago
Toby Risk "Currently, as far as I can see all the LUT's affect all the outputs, which is limiting in terms of achieving accurate colour on the colourists monitor and the client monitor." Huh Sorry to
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| | | |  | C300 = Failby Perry Trest 5 months agoGraded my first C300 job. Working with the MXF media. Noisy shadows. Banding. Very disappointing. Not impressed. Have any of you guys or gals worked with footage from this camera Am I missing somethin | Re: C300 = Fail
by Robbie Carman 5 months ago
Juan Salvo "Reminds me of the awfulness of the af100. :(" 100%. Its just not a great image to push and pull like the AF100. Shot very well it holds up but when you need to get in there and really str
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| | | |  | Legal Levels with a Scope and FSIby William Edwards 6 months agoHello, So I read through past forums on setting the legal levels on the render in Resolve. I wanted to check that with the new version if people were still using a LUT to be sure it stayed in 64-940 O | Re: Legal Levels with a Scope and FSI
by Robbie Carman 6 months ago
Paul - The Hardware Legalizers are priced depending on options similar to the Harris DL 860 so 5-7k. I think the software plugin is like $399 but not sure exactly. It works well in FCP but it takes a
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| | | | | Great Resolve Trainingby Robbie Carman 1 year agoI just wanted to let everyone know that my great friend, colleague, and full time drinking buddy when we see each other teaching at conferences Alexis Van Hurkman thru Ripple Training has just release | Re: Great Resolve Training
by Robert Due 1 year ago
I bought it and I have found many, many useful tips. It is great for newbies and more experienced users alike. Thumbs up to Alexis! Robert Due Editor Colorist INDEPENDENT EDIT
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| | | | | Does HDMI support 23.98 / 24p ?by Anhtu Vu 1 year agoTrying to get an official answer on this. I was having problem getting an image when playing 23.98 24 p material with my Panny 25VT. According to a member here HDMI does not support 23.98 24. Can anyo | Re: Does HDMI support 23.98 / 24p ?
by Robbie Carman 1 year ago
yes of course it supports it. Most if not all hollywood blu-rays are 23.98. Whats going on with your VT-25 I have 3 of them. the work great showing 23.98 material. Robbie Carman ---------------- Color
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| | | |  | Color Grading Drives my Crazyby gerald ruppen 2 years agoHello Guys I use a mbp and a mxo2 and and fsi Color Grading Monitor with Apple Color. My Grading looks fine on the fsi , but when I burn a DVD and try it on my big cheap Flatscreen TV it looks differe | Re: Color Grading Drives my Crazy
by Robbie Carman 2 years ago
errrrr how to answer this one..... All you can do is grade to a standard with a calibrated monitor. Your FSI is one of the most accurate monitors around (assuming you have it messed with it). Using th
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| | | |  | Low Luminance Issues after QC session.by Jason Wissinger 2 years agoDear Creative Cow Color Gods, Please excuse my ignorance on this question but I am stumped. We just sent a documentary we finished to a QC Session and we had some errors. Almost all were easily fixed | | | | |
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| | | |  | render file all jacked up.by Trevor Ward 2 years agoThis is what my render file looks like. This is NOT what it's supposed to look like. I have a 10 minute project and all the render files look like this. The project before rendered fine. I didn't chan | Re: render file all jacked up.
by Robbie Carman 2 years ago
can you give us some details What was the original file compression What were you rendering to Is this a FCP roundtrip What are your color project settings i.e. frame size etc Also any hardware detail
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| | | | | general use lens for 7Dby Ashley Davis 2 years agoI'm about to order a Canon 7D body and I need a good everyday lens. At the moment, I'm only getting one lens but will eventually get others too. So I am looking for a good functioning high end lens, t | Re: general use lens for 7D
by Robbie Carman 2 years ago
Well I would put a vote towards the 17-55. This lens is absolutely one of the sharpest lenses in my bag. Great for photos, good for video (as good as photo lenses can be). I actually sold the Canon L
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| | | | | ultra scopes 1.5 not showing gamutby Robbie Carman 2 years agoI just updated my ultra scopes to v 1.5 Seems like there is a bug. With gamut checked for both parade and luma waveform out of gamut trace doesn't appear read as it used to. Anyone having the same pro | Re: ultra scopes 1.5 not showing gamut
by Robbie Carman 2 years ago
Thanks Hersh and Joshua for your updates. (Joshua I just responded to your email). After Luke informed me about the profile tie-in, now gamut highlighting it does indeed work for RGB however I still c
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| | | | | 5D Irisby Roy Schneider 2 years agoHi All: I was shooting on a project today, and got brain freeze and lost in space. Once I have my camera set up in manual, and am happy with all my settings, is there a way to move the camera and not | Re: 5D Iris
by Robbie Carman 2 years ago
michael well said. I was writing almost the same thing as you posted Robbie Carman ---------------- Colorist and Author Check out my new Books: Video Made on a Mac Apple Pro Training Series DVDSP From
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| | | | | Timcode on HD Extreme/Ultrascopeby Robbie Carman 2 years agoHoping someone has a answer for this one. I've written BM support but haven't heard back. A few months ago I swapped out my AJA Kona 3 for a HD Extreme since we moved to Resolve. With the old card and | Re: Timcode on HD Extreme/Ultrascope
by Joshua Helling 2 years ago
Hi Robbie, The first email I've seen from you was forwarded to me from Peter Chamberlain. I've responded to your email in some detail, but also had some questions. I've also responded to a post with s
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| | | |  | ProPrompter HDiby Danny Grizzle 2 years agoAnyone using ProPrompter HDi with a DSLR rig This looks like a cool iPad-based device that would be perfect for a project I have early in 2011. Even cooler, a separate iOS device (iPhone, iPod Touch) | Re: ProPrompter HDi
by Robbie Carman 2 years ago
yep I"ve used it a few times and works great. Also check out Prompster which is pretty good too Robbie Carman ---------------- Colorist and Author Check out my new Books: Video Made on a Mac Apple Pro
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| | | | | DIY skateboard dollyby Robbie Carman 2 years agoCame across this cool story. For a $100 easy to build your own dolly http: mikemillerproducer.blogspot.com Robbie Carman ---------------- Colorist and Author Check out my new Books: Video Made on a Ma | Re: DIY skateboard dolly
by Joseph W. Bourke 2 years ago
That's a relatively easy build if you've got the tools (which I do). For more of this DIY stuff, you owe it to yourself to check out: Cheesycam.com Some of the stuff on there is laughable, but a lot o
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| | | |  | Pluraleyes - No Sequence coming upby Stefan LaToure 2 years agoHey all!! I downloaded Pluraleyes to test it out on my MacBook Pro, but after it finds the Project it doesn't find the Sequence to actually do the sync. Has anyone seen this or know how to fix it Than | Re: Pluraleyes - No Sequence coming up
by Robbie Carman 2 years ago
do you have the seq open before running plural eyes I seem to remember having this issue when the sequence wasn't actually opened before running plural eyes Robbie Carman ---------------- Colorist and
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| | | |  | Tip: add sharpness back in!by Richard van den Boogaard 2 years agoHi, Recently, I got a great tip from another DSLR shooter, which I want you guys to take advantage of as well: add a sharpness effect back into the footage in your NLE. Many of us DSLR shooters choose+2 | Re: Tip: add sharpness back in!
by Robbie Carman 2 years ago
I just wrapped up grading a feature shot entirely on 7Ds last week and agree with this. Just a touch will do it because nothing is uglier in my opinion then a overly sharpened video. Another thing tha
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| | | | | Podcast: Understanding DSLR Frame Sizesby Richard Harrington 2 years agoUnderstanding DSLR Frame Sizes by Richard Harrington (06:00) -- 12 13 2010 Richard and Robbie tackle a common question dealing with sensors, full frame vs crop sensors. They will discuss the impact of | Re: Understanding DSLR Frame Sizes
by Robbie Carman 2 years ago
phil your absolutely right. Its hard sometimes to get all the technical details in a couple min. But thanks for pointing that out Robbie Carman ---------------- Colorist and Author Check out my new Bo
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| | | | | AC power cable extensionby Robbie Carman 3 years agoSilly question but one that I want to make sure I get right. In a new suite I have a need (for cable management purposes) to run ac to the 2460 in that suite longer than the supplied cable. What is th | Re: AC power cable extension
by Robbie Carman 3 years ago
as always thanks walter. Great link Bram - what gauge would you use for say a 12 foot run, 20 foot run or even a 30 foot run Robbie Carman ---------------- Colorist and Author Check out my new Books:
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| | | | | Small bug to be aware ofby Robbie Carman 3 years agoJust discovered this one today and thought it might be helpful to other users. Logged in as an admin I went ahead and added some custom fields, put those in a group, and then added the group and other | | | | |
| | | | | Timecode to Ultrascopeby Robbie Carman 3 years agoHey guys I have a little bit of a head scratcher. Recently pulled my Kona 3 and replaced with HD Extreme 3 as I've set up my machine as a Resolve. I also have an ultrascope setup. So SDI out of the BM | Re: Timecode to Ultrascope
by Dave Gorrie 3 years ago
That sounds weird for sure - did you try going out of your BMD card into your monitor, then your switched out (if you monitor has it) goes to ultrascopes to see if it's the same result Just got my HD
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| | | | | Head scratcher - Default Field Valuesby Robbie Carman 3 years agoI have an issue that is truly a head scratcher and I could use a little help. I created a number of fields - client name, client email, account manager etc. Most are just Unicode a couple are integer | | | | |
| | | |  | Tangent Devices/Resolveby Tim Maloney 3 years agoHi all, Will my Tangent Devices CP 200 ( Ethernet )work with resolve Best Tim Maloney Axis Films Auistralia | Re: Tangent Devices/Resolve
by Robbie Carman 3 years ago
nope because its not USB but ethernet based. Currently supported surfaces are Tangent Wave (USB) New Resolve Panel (also USB) and on LInux the older 2k style panels Robbie Carman ---------------- Colo
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| | | | | ND filtersby Robbie Carman 3 years agoBram are you guys still selling ND filters for the 2450 | Re: ND filters
by Robbie Carman 3 years ago
gotcha. I just miss the glass front of a CRT. Technically the monitors are performing very well although blacks could be a touch darker I think. I'd have to do a re-alignment of the panel after instal
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| | | |  | Boston, NYC, Washington DCby Bram Desmet 3 years agoJust a quick FYI for those of you in the Boston, NYC, or Washington DC areas, FSI will be in these areas through the next two weeks: Boston: March 8th & 9th NYC: March 10th-12th Washington DC: March 1 | Re: Boston, NYC, Washington DC
by Robbie Carman 3 years ago
no worries Bram. I already have a 2450 and another on the way if you guys were doing an event I wanted to just check out the 2470 again Robbie Carman ---------------- Colorist and Author Check out my
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| | | | | 2470 in stock?by Robbie Carman 3 years agoAny idea when the 2470's are going to be back in stock and what the estimated shipping time might be Robbie Carman ---------------- Colorist and Author Check out my new Books: Video Made on a Mac Appl | Re: 2470 in stock?
by Bram Desmet 3 years ago
End of March. We are accepting orders for the 2470W via phone only right now. As units become more readily available we will add them back to the online store. Bram Desmet FSI (Flanders Scientific, In
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| | | | | Please clarifyby Robbie Carman 4 years agoHi there. Currently evaluating using OnLocation as a on-set calibration tool and I'm confused or rather I'm getting competing info on supported cameras etc. As far as I can tell from the manual and el | Re: Please clarify
by Mark Mapes 4 years ago
The essential point is that OnLocation CS4 works only with devices that output via FireWire. The reference to unsupported cameras even re-emphasizes this point: "Adobe OnLocation does not support camc
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| | | | | 29.97 to 59.94 on the Fly?by Robbie Carman 6 years agoHave a client that has a question that I think I know the answer too but thought I check with the experts here. I belive footage source is 720p30 Footage was digitized what looks like using the 720p30 | Re: 29.97 to 59.94 on the Fly?
by Jeremy Garchow 6 years ago
Yes, it will. No worries there. When you monitor your footage out of your Kona, you are actually watching 720p60. The pulldown is being added on the fly by FCP. Jeremy
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