Red Giant Release Colorista

Can't afford Final Touch or similar to grade your masterpiece? Fear not, Stu Maschwitz and Red Giant to the rescue.

The folks you brought you Magic Bullet, have now released Colorista:

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