u/Hot_Establishment818

Tired of overcutting color plates manually

I've spent way too much time manually overcutting color and vfx plates to an offline sequence. It's one of those jobs that's just...tedious in a way that feels like it shouldn't have to be.

So a free tool called Conform Assistant. You give it your offline premiere XML and a folder of graded/color plates, and it spits out a conformed XML with scales matched ready to import back into Premiere.

It's not magic. You still need to QC it. But it takes the bulk of the grunt work off your plate cutting each shot.

Sharing it for free because the post community has given me a lot over the years and this felt like a small way to give something back.

Happy to answer questions. If you run into edge cases or weirdness, let me know. Always looking to improve it.

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u/Hot_Establishment818 — 9 days ago

I've spent way too much time manually overcutting color and vfx plates to an offline sequence. It's one of those jobs that's just...tedious in a way that feels like it shouldn't have to be. So a free tool called Conform Assistant. You give it your offline premiere XML and a folder of graded/color plates, and it spits out a conformed XML with scales matched ready to import back into Premiere.

It's not magic. You still need to QC it. But it takes the bulk of the grunt work off your plate cutting each shot.

Sharing it for free because the post community has given me a lot over the years and this felt like a small way to give something back.

Happy to answer questions. If you run into edge cases or weirdness, let me know. Always looking to improve it.

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u/Hot_Establishment818 — 17 days ago
▲ 3 r/postproduction+1 crossposts

I've spent way too much time manually overcutting color and vfx plates to an offline sequence. It's one of those jobs that's just...tedious in a way that feels like it shouldn't have to be.

So a free tool called Conform Assistant. You give it your offline premiere XML and a folder of graded/color plates, and it spits out a conformed XML with scales matched ready to import back into Premiere.

It's not magic. You still need to QC it. But it takes the bulk of the grunt work off your plate cutting each shot.

Sharing it for free because the post community has given me a lot over the years and this felt like a small way to give something back.

Happy to answer questions. If you run into edge cases or weirdness, let me know. Always looking to improve it.

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u/Hot_Establishment818 — 17 days ago

I've spent way too much time manually overcutting color and vfx plates to an offline sequence. It's one of those jobs that's just...tedious in a way that feels like it shouldn't have to be.

I'm an editor based in LA, and a while back I decided to actually do something about it. So I built a small free tool called Conform Assistant. Check out here. You give it your offline premiere XML and a folder of graded/color plates, and it spits out a conformed XML ready to import back into Premiere.

It handles scale compensation automatically when your offline proxy and color plates are different resolutions, matches filenames, and generates a report so you can see exactly what matched and what didn't.

It's not magic. You still need to QC it. But it takes the bulk of the grunt work off your plate cutting each shot.

Sharing it for free because the post community has given me a lot over the years and this felt like a small way to give something back.

Happy to answer questions. If you run into edge cases or weirdness, let me know. Always looking to improve it.

Download here.

u/Hot_Establishment818 — 18 days ago