Color Finesse 2.2.1 review
DownloadColor Finesse is an Adobe After Effects plugin that gives you a lot of new features.
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Color Finesse is an Adobe After Effects plugin that gives you a lot of new features.
High End Telecine-Style Color Correction
You can have telcine-style color correction within After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and other applications, giving you full creative control over the color and look of your images.
Flexible Controls
Control the gain, gamma, pedestal, hue and saturation of your images. Work in HSL, RGB, CMY, or YCbCr color spaces. Control the overall image, or work with individual color channels. Flexibility is the key to getting just the look you want, and flexibility is what Color Finesse offers with its myriad controls and tools.
Secondary Color Correction
Want to change the color of a scarf or punch up a bland gray sky? Color Finesse's six-channel secondary color corrector allows you to isolate up to six separate colors which can be adjusted for hue, saturation, and hue offset. Each of the six channels defines a color range based on up to four color samples with settable luma and chroma tolerance, and a range softness control, allowing you to easily isolate colors without harsh edges.
Automated Color Matching
Need to match the color in one frame to a color in another frame? Color Finesse provides single-button color matching to provide natural-looking color matches without fiddling.
Here are some key features of "3D Invigorator Pro":
Uses 32-bit floating-point color space for incredible resolution and latitude.
User configurable control over shadows, midtones, and highlights, as well as overall correction.
Performs corrections in HSL, RGB, CMY, and YCbCr color spaces.
Automatic color matching and black, white, and gray balance.
Custom correction curves.
Six channel secondary color correction for selecting and correcting individual color vectors.
Reference images and split-screen wipe facilitate accurate color grading and matching.
Smart chroma and luma limiting ensures that even extreme color changes stay within "legal" limits without harsh clipping.
Waveform monitor, vectorscope, histogram, and correction curve displays give full visibility into the correction process.
Resolution independent to work with NTSC, PAL, HDTV, film, and web data.
Fully optimized for multiple processors and AltiVec (Velocity Engine) for rapid rendering.
Interfaces to Echo Fire for video previews of all correction operations.
Includes User's Guide in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
What's New:
Now available as both a plug-in and a standalone application.
The plug-in now has a simplified interface available directly in the host application, so you don't need to invoke the Color Finesse UI for many common adjustments.
You can scrub clips in the UI, letting you see how your correction affects all frames.
Direct communication with video preview hardware without additional software. Supported hardware includes FireWire/DV (Mac), Blackmagic (Mac/Windows) and AJA (Mac).
Individual controls can be reset to the default value.
Preview lookup tables (LUTs) allow for accurate previewing.
Includes many more presets, including many popular lighting gels.
Simplified saving of your own presets.
The Reference Gallery now supports hierarchical folder structures for better organization.
Settings can be exported and imported using the ASC CDL (American Society of Cinematographers Color Decision List) format.
Curves can be loaded in a variety of formats, including Photoshop, Discreet, and Quantel.
Interface to the Colorociter CS-1 Colorist's Workstation (Mac-only) for tactile feedback.
Improved performance.
The standalone version of Color Finesse also includes:
Imports and exports projects from Apple Final Cut Pro via XML. Easily import your project into Color Finesse for final grading.
Supports QuickTime movies and image sequences, including Cineon and DPX files.
Clips can be grouped by scene so corrections apply to all members of a group.
Requirements:
Power-PC G4-based Macintosh
Mac OS 9.0.4 or later or Mac OS X 10.1.1 or later
A 1024x768 (or larger) display
QuickTime 4.1.2 or later
Adobe After Effects 5.0 or later.
Apple Final Cut Pro 2.0 or later.
Discreet Combustion 1.011 or later.
Pinnacle Commotion 3.0 or later.
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