Curves/Color Correction Question

[Curious Turtle]

Hi Rosa,

Nope, no curves in FCP. There are in Color, if you really want them.

Otherwise, I’d concentrate on learning the 3-way Color Corrector, as that’s the most useful colour correction filter FCP has for general correction IMHO.

Is there a particular thing you’re trying to do? Or are you (sensibly) just looking for a comfortable analogue to a tool you’re familiar with?

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Ben

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[Emilio Martinez]

Nattress has a “Film Effects” package and that has a Curves Effect in it; however, I don’t find it as intuitive or friendly as the Curves in Photoshop/After Effects. This is because you have to use sliders and you can only see the curves graphed on an overlay in the Canvas.

You can download a demo here.

[Rosa Jurjevics]

Hi Ben,

Color corrector is great, I agree. I’m not super super good with it yet (but am getting there) and am not sure it will do what I need it to. I’m looking to lighten up half of a shot and leave the other half darker, as a Curves effect might do (sort of). I’ve played around a little with ‘limit effect’ to no avail and have also tried various gamma and luma controls as well.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Rosa

[Mark Maness]

Magic Bullet makes Colorista which is a 3-way color corrector that is much better than Apple’s 3-way Color Corrector. It works very much like curves.

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[Nick Haffie-emslie]

This seems like such a simple feature. All the pixel math is right there in front of you on a graph. All you’re doing is some bezier interpolation of points and then amplifying or dampening a pixel’s color value. I know a lot of people that would throw $20 at someone who’d be willing to spend a couple Saturdays writing this plugin up!

Premiere has it, Vegas has it, After Effects has it…

< /rant>

Anyway, what’s the consensus on current solutions? Is colorista the best bet?