![]() ![]() the Color Finesse plugin by Synthetic Aperture is by far the best color correction tool available for post production, save a DaVinci color suite costing a few hundred grand. Instead of writing an article review explaining the merits of such a fine product Color Finesse is, I will otherwise try to convince you that the current crop of color correcting/effect tools available today are junk and without this tool, you're missing out on superior color correction quality available in software form. ![]() The best example I can use for relating Color Finesse to standard color correction/effect tools is by the following example. You know those great sounding speakers you can buy at the local audio/video/computer store? Lots of bass and bright highs with a lot of color? So why don't recording studios use these speakers? Because they're totally inaccurate! If you measure the frequency response of the speaker's output, you'll get a graph that's something akin to the Swiss Alps. Standard color correction tools are the same way. Totally inaccurate! View the results on a waveform monitor and you'll see a mix of clipping, noise gain, rounding errors, RGB gain, contrast gain, saturation gain, banding and some times errors so profound they actually create errors in the places they were supposed to fix! With Color Finesse, you're using a tool that is scientifically accurate, resulting in a natural, lifelike results. Just like the inaccurate audio speakers you can buy at the store that boost specific audio frequencies to make them appear as if they sound good, so is the same with standard color correction tools. When using a standard brightness tool in Adobe After Effects for example, the result adds RGB gain to make it appear it's really bright, when in fact it's adding contrast and clipping for the illusion of brightness. ![]() Nothing too accurate about that!Īlthough packaged as a plugin, Color Finesse is really an application unto itself. When used in Adobe After Effects for example, it loads the Color Finesse application up in memory and keeps it memory (user definable of course). Instead of a cheesy little palette full of sliders and buttons, Color Finesse opens up its own full-screen graphical user interface (GUI). The interface is clear and understandable with oodles of visual feedback and options. It's very easy to quickly become comfortable with the interface and remember where things are. The biggest feature of this product for me is its incredible resolution for processing. Its 32-bit per component processing makes it a 96-bit plugin! Wow! Working in 16-bit mode in After Effects is simply awesome. But more on that in a bit (pun intended). Many standard color correction tools give you options to work in HSL and RGB, but Color Finesse goes a step further and allows you to also work in CMY (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) and also YCbCr (the digital equivalent of analog YUV). #Color finesse 3 presets full#Ī plethora of scopes, waveforms, histograms and other displays gives you full monitoring of your color correction actions. And of course, there's the in-depth control of the color correction tools themselves. ![]()
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