What is Magic Bullet Colorista Free?

Colorista Free is a simplified, elegant color corrector that anyone can share and use. You get exactly what you need with basic controls designed by experienced colorists. This plug-in has 3-Way wheels from our popular Colorista II, a Saturation slider, and RGB sliders for precise numerical accuracy.

Colorista Free lets you perform basic, beautiful color correction in After Effects, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro. Its easy-to-use interface is equally good for quick adjustments on a deadline or finessing your footage. Colorista means 'painting' in Spanish, and our hope is that Colorista Free will let you paint beautiful colors for your video or film footage.

The product is also intended for colorists who can benefit from a Color Decision List (CDL) workflow. For high-level work, Colorista Free is workflow-ready for sharing CDL values. You can bring these value into other CDL-compliant host apps and conform your color work to CDL standards. You get a lovely Colorista Free interface with results that are displayed in CDL terms.

Colorista Free is an ideal addition to any color grading workflow, since its CDL Burn allows you to share projects or settings with colleagues who do not have Colorista II.

 

 

The idea behind Colorista Free

Our company, Red Giant, is made up of filmmakers and enthusiasts who value tools that help us share and communicate, and we feel some basic things should be free. We are giving away Colorista Free to make color grading more accessible and to share color decisions easily and fluidly. Whether you are an entry-level colorist, a seasoned color grader or someone who wants to do more with color, Colorista Free will move your film project forward.

Colorista Free is a simplified version of our popular Colorista II color corrector. Colorista II is a revolutionary professional color correction system that works inside your favorite editing applications. The product includes the 3 Way wheels and Saturation slider that you see in Colorista Free. However, Colorista II does infinitely more with a system that allows you to stack multiple layers of color correction for Primary, Secondary and Master stages. Colorista II also has powerful tools that include an HSL picker, two Power Masks, an intuitive Keyer, Highlight Recovery and Auto Balance.

To learn more about Colorista II, click the Upgrade button in the Colorista Free interface. Go directly to our website for a free demo at redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-colorista-II/

 

 

The technology behind Colorista Free

Underlying the Colorista engine are sophisticated color-correction algorithms that are similar to those used on big-budget productions. The underlying model uses floating-point calculations for all functions, and Colorista Free is built for absolute best quality output no matter what format the footage is stored in. What this means in practical terms is that the engine always upconverts any incoming image to floating point representation, offering much more precision than color tools that only offer 8-bit-per-channel quality.

We support the highest bit depth possible — 32-bit floating point per channel. For projects that run in standard 8 bit or 10 bit mode, Colorista Free automatically and transparently upconverts the video to floating point format, performs all calculations with the highest precision and then returns the video to the import format. This guarantees the highest fidelity for your final output. This is exactly the way that high-end color systems from Discreet, Apple, Da Vinci and other purpose-built systems operate.

Workflow Note: The Colorista Free wheels may sometimes react slowly, but for a very good reason. Unlike most color correction software, Colorista Free is giving a real-time preview when you make a change. Every time you move a color dot, for instance, you get real-time update of its effects in the Preview Window of your host application. Of course, you can preview and work faster if your resolution is set to Half or lower.