First Look: Using Color Finale Pro and the Tangent Ripple in FCPx

Insights: Color Correction Tutorial Library   /   Tutorials   /   Color Finale Pro First Look Welcome Christophe Delaunay as a new contributor to the Insights library. Since 2014 Christophe has been the Mixing Light ‘Member-At-Large’, keeping Dan, Robbie and Pat on the straight-and-narrow. Now he joins them in the Library with his first Insight: A look at the new Color Finale Pro plug-in for FCPX. Feel free to welcome Christophe in the Comments! How to set up the new Color Finale Pro with the Tangent Ripple? If you’ve been following Patrick’s ‘Desert Island Challenge’, you know he is reviewing different plugins aimed at increasing the grading experience in NLEs (first FCPX, and now Premiere Pro). The goal is to find a ‘winner’ plugin, the one you would certainly pick if you could only use one along with your editing program. I won’t reveal here which FCPX plugin won last year’s challenge but amongst the plugins put to the test was Color Finale, from Color Grading Central. This plugin brings back strong grading features into FCPX, in particular curves and color wheels. Some people have been fast to adapt to the FCPX Colorboard. But many editors and colorists accustomed to color wheels have really struggled trying to master it (if that’s you, try starting with this Insight on FCPX’s Exposure slider). Say ‘hello’ to the new Color Finale Pro plug-in (and control surface support) If you prefer not to learn FCPX’s one-off user interface for color correction then you definitely take a look at this new plug-in from Color Grading Central, Color Finale Pro. This ‘Pro’ version adds many features on top of the Color Finale plug-in that Patrick originally reviewed. This Insight covers one particular new feature in Color Finale Pro I find exciting… Tangent Devices support Typically, one of the downsides of using a 3rd party color filter is they don’t communicate with external control surfaces. While you gain the familiarity of the ... Read more