Color Finesse 3 Feature Highlights

• Available as both a plug-in and a standalone application.
• Plug-in available in 32- and 64-bit flavors for compatibility with Adobe CS5/CS5.5 applications.
• Macintosh version available as FxPlug for use in Final Cut Pro and Motion.
• Uses 32-bit floating-point color space for incredible resolution and latitude.
• User configurable control over shadows, midtones, and highlights, as well as overall correction.
• Performs corrections in HSL, RGB, CMY, and YCbCr color spaces.
• Automatic color matching and black, white, and gray balance.
• Auto-Color and Auto-Exposure buttons give one-click access to your creative color grading starting point.
• Custom correction curves in both RGB and HSL formats.
• Vibrance control gives refined control over image saturation.
• Six channel secondary color correction for selecting and correcting individual color vectors.
• Reference images and split-screen wipe facilitate accurate color grading and matching.
• Smart chroma and luma limiting ensures that even extreme color changes stay within "legal" limits without harsh clipping.
• Highlight Recovery tools provides a visually-pleasing way to recover overbright areas of the image which would normally be clipped.
• Waveform monitor, vectorscope, histogram, and correction curve displays give full visibility into the correction process.
• Export color correction settings as 3D LUTs in a variety of formats, including Autodesk Lustre and Smoke, Academy LUT, Assimilate Scratch, Pogle, Truelight, Cine-tal, and LUTher.
• Fully optimized for multiple processors and SSE/SSE2 on Intel processors and AltiVec (Velocity Engine) on PowerPC.
• The plug-in has a simplified interface giving you access to the most commonly used color correction controls directly in the host application.
• Scrub through the clip you're correcting and preview your work with realtime playback.
• Direct communication with video preview hardware without additional software. Supported hardware includes FireWire/DV (Mac), Blackmagic (Mac/Windows) and AJA (Mac).
• Preview lookup tables (LUTs) allow for accurate previewing.
• Supports Colorociter Colorist's Workstation and Tangent Wave for tactile hardware control.
• Includes User's Guide in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.