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- Developer: Red Giant Software
- Version: 1.0
- Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows XP
- Host Applications:Adobe After Effects CS3, 7, 6.5, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, 2.0, Apple Final Cut Pro 6, 5.1.4, Avid Xpress DV 1 & 1.5, Apple Motion 3.02, Avid Xpress Pro/Media Composer 5.6+,2.6+
- 32-bit float point color space
- Host Applications: Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Apple Motion, and Avid systems
- Compatibility with After Effects 7, Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Mac Universal Binary, Mac OSX Leopard Compatibility and Microsoft Vista Compatibility
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Description
Now that you've locked your edit, it's time to load Magic Bullet Colorista to make your project shine. Under the hood is the next-generation Magic Bullet engine with real-time processing for fast review and rendering. Colorista is ready for action with industry-standard color wheels for precise color control. Plus, use the Power Mask tool to isolate areas - the easiest way to light up your talent. Magic Bullet Colorista and Magic Bullet Looks are the perfect tools for color finishing.
The Magic Bullet technology took the indie film world by storm with the debut of four Orphanage original digital video short films during the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. Two years later the software was released to the public and it immediately became the post-production process of choice for numerous filmmakers, independent and high-end studios alike to transform the crisp soap-opera look of video to the softer and more organic look of film.
For the past 18 months, Red Giant Software has been engineering a completely new line of video enhancement and restoration products that address the wish list we've learned our customers need to finish their video projects. The number one request was an easy to use color correction tool that could deliver fast and great results. Proper color correction is of course an essential step before applying a Magic Bullet Look. So we took it upon ourselves to create the perfect color correction tool. Magic Bullet Colorista is just what you'd expect from a Magic Bullet product designed by Stu Maschwitz from The Orphanage.
Highlights
- Precise Color Balance - Colorista make your whites look white and helps your talent look their best with controls for modifying shadows, mid-tones and highlights. The familiar Lift, Gamma, Gain color wheels allow for easy adjustment of color balance and luminance with ultra-sensitive control for precise results. Additional Saturation and Exposure options let you make flesh tones look natural and set highlight and shadow levels exactly.
- Real time DeepColor RT - Maximize your performance with the power of the DeepColor RT engine inside Colorista. Play back SD and HD (720p) projects in real-time by efficiently using your system's graphics processing power. The next-generation DeepColor RT engine preserves quality in every application host so that 10-bit projects remain 10-bit.de creates converging lines of colors that are perfect for generating a sky gradient.
- Mask with Ease - Apply the correction just where you need it. With Colorista you can create a simple circular or rectangular shape to isolate a specific zone. No longer is it necessary to pre-mask a shot to deepen the color of a sky or redefine the actionable area of the shot. The animatable controls for area and feather let you work right in the canvas or composer window.
Features
- Familiar Tools - Colorista offers powerful color correction with simple color wheels and basic masking
- Multiple Hosts - Use the same color correction tool in all your applications. Colorista ships as a native plug-in for all major hosts applications including Final Cut Pro (FX Plug), Motion, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Avid AVX compatible systems
- Professional Results - Results that meet professional standards and generate visually pleasing results
- ACL-compliant Color - Colorista's processing uses a traditional Lift Gamma Gain model
- Duck-Compatible - Use Automatic Duck to transport a Colorista correction done in Final Cut Pro to After Effects, saving hours of finishing time.
- Superior Correction - Colorista provides better-looking results than the three-way correctors built into most NLEs, and with simpler controls
- GPU Acceleration - Fast, GPU-accelerated rendering with DeepColor RT
- High-Bit Depth and Floating-Point support - Process 8, 10, 16 or 32-bit projects to guarantee perfect output
What makes Colorista different?
- Precise Color Balance - Colorista make your whites look white and your talent look their best with controls for modifying shadows, mid-tones and highlights. The familiar Lift, Gamma, Gain color wheels allow for easy adjustment of color balance and luminance with ultrasensitive control for precise results. Additional, Saturation and Exposure options let you makes flesh tones look natural, plus set the highlight and shadow levels exactly.
- Real time DeepColor RT - Maximize your performance with the power of the DeepColor RT engine inside Colorista. Playback SD and HD (720p) projects in real-time by efficiently using your system's graphics processing power. The next-generation DeepColor RT engine preserves quality in every application host so that 10-bit projects remain 10-bit.
- Mask with Ease - Apply the correction just where you need it. With Colorista you can create a simple circular or rectangular shape to isolate a specific zone. No longer is it necessary to pre-mask a shot to deepen the color of a sky or redefine the actionable area of the shot. The animatable controls for area and feather let you work right in the canvas or composer window.
Benefits to using Colorista over the built-in host application tools
- The easiest and fastest 3-way color corrector for After Effects with full support for 8, 16, and 32-bit per channel projects
- Colorista performs like Premiere Pro's standard three way color corrector, but delivers results up to 5x faster with a fast graphics card, now that's productivity
- With Colorista you can finally do full 32-bit color correction at all times, with no shift in shadow colors and area masking directly in the Canvas window in Final Cut Pro. Plus, the exposure settings make it easy to work with common f-stop settings like plus or minus one-half stop
- If you like Motion but yearn for more powerful color correction tools then Colorista delivers with full support for fast GPU rendering and support for 8, 16, and 32-bit float projects
- You can get all the platforms in one package which means no matter what tool you use, you will have a familiar color correction plug-in at hand
How does Colorista compare to Color Finesse?
- Color Finesse is a good color correction tool providing you with a lot of controls to adjust colors, Colorista has a much simpler user interface with the most used controls. Yes, this means less power but also less confusion for the non-colorist for easy, fast, accurate results.
- Colorista uses the Lift, Gamma, Gain color model to assure that shadow values do not become too bright during the tinting process. Color Finesse 2 uses Offset Gamma Gain and will cause shadow brightening when using tint that can be objectionable because it lowers the contrast of an image making it look muddy and less detailed.
- Colorista features built-in animatable masks that make it easier to do face isolation for example that would take extra masking and compositing in After Effects when using Color Finesse.
Graphics Card Requirement
Like Apple Motion, Magic Bullet Colorista requires specific graphics card capabilities to run. Without the correct card, the software will not install or run, and the installer will warn you if you don’t have the necessary graphics card installed in your system. Magic Bullet Colorista supports a wide range of cards from both ATI or NVIDIA.
For ATI cards, we require a 9600 XT or greater, or an X series card starting with the X700 series. Cards with greater model numbers and at least 128 MB of RAM can run the Colorista engine.
For NVIDIA cards, we support the 6600 model and higher or QuadroFX 1000 and up. Cards with higher model numbers and a minimum of 128 MB of RAM can run Colorista. For users working with HD images, we require that the video card have at least 256 MB of RAM. In all cases, we suggest using the latest video drivers for your graphics card.
Examples
- Red Giant Magic Bullet Colorista Test - Video test shot in a very dark barn with a consumer digital camera in video mode.
Support
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Known issues
- Final Cut Pro to 5.1.3 will cause Colorista to disappear. Upgrade to FCP 5.1.4
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