Synthetic Aperture Color FinesseSynthetic Aperture. Test Gear 2. 5 provides motion graphics artists and video editors with a variety of test instruments to make objective measurements of their visual and audio work, all from within After Effects. All test instruments appear in standard After Effects panels and do not require that an effect be applied to your layers. Waveform monitor and vectorscope with a variety of styles. Histogram display. Gamut display shows RGB, luma, and chroma levels. Photoshop style color picker. Color swatch books make it easy to pick colors from a pre approved set. Audio waveform monitor, phase display, and spectrum analyzer. Learn more about Test Gear. Review Color Finesse Article Focus Dont have the hundreds. Da. Vinci color correction system But you do have After Effects In a jaw dropping review of Synthetic. Apertures Color Finesse, Marco Solorio shows how Color Finesse. The differences are shockingNote this. NOT an article on how to color correct although some of the. WARNING THIS. ARTICLE REQUIRES HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGESFOR COMPARISON PURPOSES RESULTING IN LONG DOWNLOAD TIMES Okay. Color Finesse plugin by Synthetic. Aperture is by far the best color correction tool available for. Da. Vinci color suite costing a few hundred. Instead of writing an article review explaining the merits. Color Finesse is, I will otherwise try. The best example I can use for relating. Color Finesse to standard color correctioneffect tools is by. You know those great sounding speakers. Lots of. bass and bright highs with a lot of color So why dont recording. Because theyre totally inaccurateIf you measure the frequency response of the speakers output. Swiss Alps. Standard. Totally inaccurateView the results on a waveform monitor and youll see a mix of. RGB gain, contrast gain. With Color Finesse, youre using a tool that is scientifically. Just like the inaccurate audio speakers. Now you can have telecinestyle color correction that fits your workflow rather than imposing a new one. Color Finesse 2 gives you the highend color correctionOperating System MacCategory Digital Photo SoftwareSize 40. MBhttp hIDSERP,5258. Review Color Finesse Los Angeles Creative Pro User GroupAlthough packaged as a plugin, Color Finesse is really an application unto itself. When used in Adobe After Effects for example, it loads the Color. When using a standard brightness. Adobe After Effects for example, the result adds RGB. Nothing too accurate about that Although packaged. 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. Instead of a cheesy little palette full of sliders. Color Finesse opens up its own full screen graphical. GUI. The interface is clear and understandable. Its very easy to. The biggest feature of this product for. Its 3. 2 bit per. Wow Working in. 1. After Effects is simply awesome. But more on that. Many standard color correction tools. HSL and RGB, but Color Finesse goes. CMY Cyan, Magenta. Yellow and also YCb. Cr the digital equivalent of analog YUV. A plethora of scopes, waveforms, histograms and other displays. And. of course, theres the in depth control of the color correction. Everything from a single channel having many. This is the real deal. Comparing. Color Finesse with standard color correction tools. In order for me to see how well Color. Finesse compares and differs from the general color correction. After Effects and Final Cut Pro. I used similar footage and did AB comparisons with similar settings. Color Finesse will do anything any other color. But it can go so much deeper with. Download Color Finesse for free. Color Finesse is an impressive crossplatform and works on systems from laptops to multiprocessor workstations, without the need for. Price 575Operating System WindowsCategory System Utilitieshttp hIDSERP,5526. Color Correction In After Effects With Color Finesse. Color Correction In After Effects With Color Finesse Day 1 Source httpae. Let me discuss some of the. For some technical evaluations, I also. I use to test codecs with. The test. image reveals a ton of information about these plugins. You can. download my test image at my codec. SDFp0qE9QPY/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Color Finesse' title='Color Finesse' />The file is. Super. PNG format. Saturation. Adobe After Effects allows you to set the saturation of the HueSaturation. Stacking or doubling the plugin has no. With Color Finesse, I can slide the Master saturation. I can manually type in a maximum value of 1. The biggest difference is that the standard AE plugin seems to. Color Finesse on the other hand gives me. It looks. less digital and more lifelike. Interestingly, the. AE plugin banded in 8 bit mode at 1. Macintosh gamma monitor. The Color. Finesse plugin on the other hand gives me 9. In fact, some tests showed no visual difference between Color. Finesses 8 bit and 1. Daniel Deronda Tv Serial here. Never once did Color Finesse ever give. Color Finesse really. Original source image portion of full size test imageAdobe After Effects Saturation at 1. Adobe After Effects Saturation at 1. Color Finesse HSL Saturation at 3. Color Finesse HSL Saturation at 1. So this makes things very interesting. If you work in 8 bit mode and want to guard against. Color Finesse. to make sure you dont band. If you do work in 1. AE, youll need to use 1. However, not. all standard AE plugins are 1. AE Broadcast. Colors plugin, so youll again need to utilize Color Finesse. As you can see, Color Finesse already shows. One of the interesting tricks with the. Saturation tool is how the values work. The default value is. One would think that zero. Youll soon realize this is NOT the correct way of working with. Read on. Increase the. Decrease the number. Now slide the image even more to the left, past. This negative value will slowly. At a. value of 1. Now if you go past 1. When playing with the Saturation slider and watching the RGB. Parade Histogram at the same time, this begins to TOTALLY makes. Brightness. Yuck The standard AE BrightnessContrast plugin does a horrible. Once again, the AE plugin adds. In fact, it appears. RGB Gain, which helps it to make it appear. Color. Finesse is silky smooth with no hard contrasts between colors. Master setting. The AE plugin is so. Color Finesse did nothing of the kind. You. can see where the RGB gain clipping blows out the highlights. The right arrow. also shows the mid point in which the contrast errors occur. You can see this hard edge line from left to right in the image. You can also see the ugly aliasing. URL text of the image. Ill never use the standard AE. BrightnessContrast plugin ever againAdobe After Effects Brightness Contrast plugin. Color Finesse HSL Brightness at 1. Contrast. Although contrasting between the standard AE BrightnessContrast. Color Finesse controls showed similar results. Color Finesse that had a more softer approach. This again gives a more natural and lifelike. However, if you really want that. Color Finesse to achieve this goal with. You can even assign the mid point of the contrast. The amount of control is truly amazing. Final Cut Pro 3 Way Color Corrector. Color Finesse. Final Cut Pros 3 way color corrector is actually a good tool. One major limitation of course is that its limited to 8 bit. I can induce banding or aliasing with the FCP 3 way. CC tool on extreme tests. Color Finesse of course does not band. And as always, I have much more. There is one major draw back to Color. Finesse in FCP though. It only works in OS9 for now. This is. actually a fault of Apple since they decided to not support Adobe. After Effects compatible plugins in Final Cut Pro for OSX. Ati Radeon Hd 5400 Drivers Windows 7 64-Bit. So. the work around is either use standard color correction tools. FCP at 8 bit processing, or run FCP in OS9 to use Color. Finesse or export your edit out of FCP using Automatic Duck and. AE for color treatment there. If you want the most. Unique. Tools in Color Finesse. Weve just. sampled some of the simplicities of Color Finesse. When we look. at the HSL controls, we can globally change the settings to affect. But going a step further, we can also adjust the following. Highlights, Midtones and Shadows tabs. They include Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Contrast, Contrast. Center, RGB Gain, Gamma and Pedestal. The first four main image. HSL, RGB, CMY and YCb. Mta Train Game Simulators. Cr work this. way. In other words, they have a global Master setting for color. Highlights, Midtones and Shadows. This truly is the ultimate in finite precision. Lets move down to the Curves pane. The. Curves main image control section works a little like the first. In this case, you have a. Master curve as well as a Red, Green and Blue curve as opposed. Master, Highlights, Midtones and Shadows setting. Each. curve can have multiple spline like points. You also have the. You can even save your multi curve data as. The only thing I dont like about. Curves section is that the IO values for each point doesnt. You must also. click on a point of choice to get the IO value if it disappears.