Product Features

The Magic Bullet technology took the indie film world by storm with the debut of four Orphanage original digital video short films during the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. Two years later the software was released to the public and it immediately became the post-production process of choice for numerous filmmakers, independent and high-end studios alike to transform the crisp soap-opera look of video to the softer and more organic look of film.

For the past 18 months, Red Giant Software has been engineering a completely new line of video enhancement and restoration products that address the wish list we've learned our customers need to finish their video projects. The number one request was an easy to use color correction tool that could deliver fast and great results. Proper color correction is of course an essential step before applying a Magic Bullet Look. So we took it upon ourselves to create the perfect color correction tool. Magic Bullet Colorista is just what you'd expect from a Magic Bullet product designed by Stu Maschwitz from The Orphanage.

• 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.

How does Colorista compare to Color Finesse?

• Color Finesse is a good color correction tool providing you with a lot of controls to adjust colors, Colorista has a much simpler user interface with the most used controls. Yes, this means less power but also less confusion for the non-colorist for easy, fast, accurate results.
• Colorista uses the Lift, Gamma, Gain color model to assure that shadow values do not become too bright during the tinting process. Color Finesse 2 uses Offset Gamma Gain and will cause shadow brightening when using tint that can be objectionable because it lowers the contrast of an image making it look muddy and less detailed.
• Colorista features built-in animatable masks that make it easier to do face isolation for example that would take extra masking and compositing in After Effects when using Color Finesse.

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

Colorista User Interface & Controls   The Colorista mask controls let you animate a simple shape directly in the Canvas or Composer window

The Colorista interface feature custom color wheels, Exposure control and Mask animation features. Shown here in Adobe After Effects.

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