Proper effects ordering

Simple exposure levels and color correction effect, noise reduction effect, stabilization effect...what is the proper order to throw these at my project?

Paul

For compute-intensive frame-based effects such as Neat Video, Digital Anarchy Flicker Free and Imagenomic Portraiture, the overall philosophy is place those first in the stack. The idea is each effect cannot be independently rendered to cache then merged with other effects. Frame-based effects are computed independently on each frame, which means all effects above that in the stack must be recomputed for each frame.

If you have multiple compute-intensive effects (not just a simple color effect), the question is what order should they be placed at the top of the stack. Jim Tierney (founder of Digital Anarchy) said this may be unpredictable based on exact characteristics of those effects. He advised taking a short 3 sec clip, trying different orders then using what performs best: digitalanarchy.com/blog/video-editing-pl...r-video-editing-app/

Obviously you want to defer until late in the edit or finishing process applying *any* of those effects.

If the review process includes people who cannot comprehend unfinished video, you may be forced to provisionally apply some some finishing effects prematurely. To avoid slowing down all subsequent renders, you can export those ranges as ProRes files (thus "baking in" those effects), re-import those and use until later in the edit when you finalize them.

There is a separate issue with type and sequence of effects in the stack negatively impacting re-use of cached render files. This is apparently a bug or suboptimal design with the FCPX cache system. There is no good answer for this but I put known details in this post: www.fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/...roject-switch#104227