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Exploring essential equipment

Exploring essential equipment - SpeedGrade Tutorial

From the course: Learning SpeedGrade

Exploring essential equipment

As you can probably imagine, a real-time color correction and grading application that can work with RAW and Log video, as well as every format in between, has some requirements when it comes to equipment. In this movie, we'll take a look at some of those requirements and talk about some of the other pieces of kit that you might want to consider. As I mentioned in a previous movie, Adobe SpeedGrade is a cross platform application. In either case, you'll need a 64-bit OS, meaning either Windows 7 or Mac OS 10.6.8 or 10.7. And I've actually been testing SpeedGrade on Mac OS 10.8, Mountain Lion, and so far so good. But as of this recording, it's not officially supported. Like with other applications, fast processors and RAM speed things along. 4GB of RAM is a minimum requirement for SpeedGrade. 8 or more gigabytes of RAM is really recommended. For monitors, you'll need a screen resolution of at least 1650x1050, and a second monitor is really recommended, but it's not an absolute…

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