With our last time out, Walter Biscardi showed us the best way to get ready for your first Color project. As a longtime user of both Final Cut Pro and Color, and a leader in both of these forums, this time he'd like to help you decide which is the better choice for you: Final Cut Pro's 3-way Color Corrector, or the color grading toolset in Apple Color.

Walter puts the same clip through its paces in both applications. It turns out that they both do a great job. But the way they do it will make a big difference for your choice as you work with shots of your own.

Whichever you choose, don't worry. Walter and the rest of the Apple Final Cut Studio experts at The COW will help you make the most of them!

Here's Walter's overview.

How long has Grinner been part of The COW? Since the very first day. As is typical of many COW leaders, you'll find Grin in many places besides the Art of the Edit and Avid Editing communities he hosts. These including the Broadcast Design, Broadcast Video, and Business & Marketing communities.

In fact, a post in that forum was the inspiration for the MayJune issue of the Creative COW Magazine, "The Power of Artistic Passion," and it's always worth repeating: People don't get into this business for the money. It's a passion. It has to be to be good enough to get paid to do it. Without the passion, it ain't gonna work. If you have this passion, nothing will stop you from doing it as a living. If you don't, there are far easier ways to make money not having fun.

You can find out more about this self-described rapidly balding vidiot at http://www.grinnerhester.com, and of course in his Leader Profile here at The COW.

(To see any leader's profile, click on their picture at the top of any of our communities.)

So Grinner, Bessie thanks you for your support, all the way back to the beginning, from the bottom of her udders!