As usual there is a Black Friday deal on Film Convert. It's 1/3 off through 1st December. This means you get the OFX plugin for Vegas and DaVinci for USD133 instead of USD199, or you get all the plugins and the standalone for USD199, the same the regular price of a single plugin.
I have been told today by their support that:
"We do have a stand-alone for PC in active development. I am expecting this to be released early-mid next year, though these things are never certain... ...if you purchase a bundle now then this will be included when it is released."
The trial lasts forever but has a watermark.
I have played around with it in VP12 and VP13. It works and hasn't crashed so far.
I am still trying to work out if the OFX plugin is behaving itself as designed in a Vegas environment, bearing in mind Vegas seems to be the only NLE that operates at computer levels rather than studio levels. Some tweaking might be required in Film Convert or in a prior FX that would not be necessary in other NLEs.
I am also wondering if clever use of this plugin might make it suitable for all color correction and grading, not just as a final film stock emulator. In the levels section it would be nice if the black point could be slid into negative figures (to retrieve illegal blacks) and the white point could be slid beyond 100 (to retrieve illegal whites). I will make a feature request for that, as well as the addition of curve adjustments.
If nothing else, if you own one of the cameras they support and shoot in some sort of low-contrast log setting (e.g.CineLike D on a GH4) then even the trial version can show you some very nice film-like results that could then be emulated in Vegas, for example with color curves, saturation and grain.
I have been told today by their support that:
"We do have a stand-alone for PC in active development. I am expecting this to be released early-mid next year, though these things are never certain... ...if you purchase a bundle now then this will be included when it is released."
The trial lasts forever but has a watermark.
I have played around with it in VP12 and VP13. It works and hasn't crashed so far.
I am still trying to work out if the OFX plugin is behaving itself as designed in a Vegas environment, bearing in mind Vegas seems to be the only NLE that operates at computer levels rather than studio levels. Some tweaking might be required in Film Convert or in a prior FX that would not be necessary in other NLEs.
I am also wondering if clever use of this plugin might make it suitable for all color correction and grading, not just as a final film stock emulator. In the levels section it would be nice if the black point could be slid into negative figures (to retrieve illegal blacks) and the white point could be slid beyond 100 (to retrieve illegal whites). I will make a feature request for that, as well as the addition of curve adjustments.
If nothing else, if you own one of the cameras they support and shoot in some sort of low-contrast log setting (e.g.CineLike D on a GH4) then even the trial version can show you some very nice film-like results that could then be emulated in Vegas, for example with color curves, saturation and grain.