Red Giant Software is at it again and this time they've
created a color correction tool,
Magic Bullet Colorista. Besides precise color balance, the real-time DeepColor RT engine and easy masking, Colorista claims the following benefits over color-correction tools built into host applications:
- 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
- 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
- For Motion users, Colorista delivers full support for fast GPU rendering and support for 8, 16, and 32-bit float projects
- 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
The Colorista plug-in supports After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Premiere Pro and Motion. The price comes in at $199 with discounts for volume licensing and you can download a demo
here. While this is a version 1.0 product, with Red Giant's track record I expect good things. Let us know what you think if you check it out.
