AE Color Correction

[Brian Berneker]

Colorista is probably the most similar to FCPs 3-way color corrector.

https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/coloristafeatures.html

Other than that, there are plenty of photoshop similar filters in the effects > color correction menu to play with!

Brian

[Brendan Coots]

Personally, I just use a combination of Levels, Hue/Saturation and Exposure. Used properly, this combination can do anything you might ever need to do, and offer far greater control than the color wheels of FCP. This technique is used on feature films, commercials etc. so rest assured these tools offer a professional level of quality and control. You just need to know how to use them properly.

That said, After Effects 6.5 and up comes bundled with a third-party program called Color Finesse, which offers all the color correction tools you’d find in FCP and more. When you apply it as an effect to a clip, it launches the app in a separate window which can take some getting used to, but it works great. Here’s Adobe’s description:

Color Finesse™ from Synthetic Aperture, a professional color processing system that uses a 32-bit floating-point color space for precise adjustments. With Color Finesse you can fine-tune color corrections in HSL, RGB, CMYK, and Y’CbCr color spaces and take advantage of automatic color matching and custom correction curves. You can monitor all color levels using the built-in waveform monitor, vectorscope, histogram, and correction-curve displays in Color Finesse.

Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
http://www.splitvisiondigital.com

[Fred Beahm]

Thank you both for your comments.

I am going to play with both methods to see which I should choose. I basically want to have easy control over my whites like in FCP. I am sure both will do fine with that. There might be a learning curve, like you said, but that is fine with me. Just wanted to see what everyone else is using in AE if they had to.

Thanks again for your comments, very appreciated.
FrEdtior