![]() Through years of practice and study I was able to discover the groundbreaking techniques that top colorists from around the world use. Well the good news is color grading is my obsession and so I didn't want to give up. In fact I remember the day years ago that my boss told me my grading was either "too extreme" or "looked muddy." He then assigned the project to somebody else! This was a major blow to my creative ego and to say it made me feel inadequate is an understatement. Well I know how you feel and I've been there. You may feel overwhelmed with the tools in Color Finale or you may even watch a film or project and say to yourself, "Why can't I grade like that?" But you might be feeling frustrated when you're not getting the results that you're looking for. Use the comments and we’ll check them out.Chances are you're either a filmmaker or an editor and you handle all of you're own color grading inside of Final Cut Pro X (the buck stops with you). So we’ll see… Is there a color correction filter you’d like to see us evaluate for this FCP X Challenge? But I will say, at $99 its price point is really hard to beat. That announcement will come at the end of this series. I won’t tell you if Color Finale is our big winner (or not) Also, the fact that Color Finale ships with a built-in LUT tool? That’s big, given how prevalent LUTs have become in many professional color pipelines. ![]() I’ll tell you right now, there is a gotchaĪnd since we’ve discovered that gotcha upfront, we can work intelligently around it. See if we can find some additional feature sets, beyond the 3-Way Color Wheels.Look for any workflow gotcha’s that we need to know if we’re going to adopt this filter as our go-to 3rd party color correction plug-in.Evaluate this filter just like we did with the Color Board, using a grayscale to evaluate the math behind it. ![]() You can download a fully functional 7-Day trial, which is what I did for this overview. Let’s kick off our mini-roundup of 3rd party color correction filters with one of the newest entries: Color FinaleĬolor Finale is from Color Grading Central, masterminded by Denver Riddle. But if you’re running with older software then you’ll want a color correction plug-in that adds some sort of masking or shape tool. But with both FCP X and Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 both offer integrated shapes to help you isolate your corrections, you can use those built-in tools. Masks? YES!: This used to be a big deal to me.Ideally, you’ll want to be able to switch on/off any combination of those three choices to dial in your keys. Keys, please: I need to be able to isolate my color corrections with a Hue, Saturation, Luminance keyer.But if you find a plug-in that supplements the core feature set of your NLE with some other nifty set of tools-all the better! These are some of my favorite little bonus add-on features. Vibrancy, Blur, Offset / Setup Controls: I like plug-ins that offer multiple tools in a unified interface, just like the FCP X Color Board.If I’m going to add a color correction plug-in, at a minimum it needs the industry-standard 3-Way interface… if for no reason then for my ability to transpose the color correction skills I learn in FCP X to other apps, later in my career. There’s no reason to throw that muscle memory away when using FCP X.While its Color Board is solid, it’s also a one-off interface unlikely to make it into other apps. For color correction, the 3-Way is the de facto standard for making primary adjustments. As much as possible, you’d like those apps to have similar interfaces. 3-Way Color Wheels: If you’re a professional, you’ll probably need to get proficient on several different post-production apps over any 5-year period.Generally, I want my go-to color correction plug-in to have as many of these features on possible: What are some of the key features I look for in a quality color correction filter to plug into a non-linear editor? It’s now time to find one single plug-in to supplement the core filter set of FCP X to help us work faster or more intuitively. We are entering the home stretch of what has turned into a marathon of Insights building up a professional workflow for color correcting in Final Cut Pro X. The FCP X Desert Island Challenge Part 10 Color Finale: An Overview of a Color Correction Plug-in for FCP X ![]() Tutorials / FCPX Desert Island Challenge / 3rd Party Color Correction Plug-ins for FCP X: Color Finale Series
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