Magic Bullet Colrista only $99.00 till June 30!

Matt Gottshalk

Matt Gottshalk

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Just got an email form Red Giant that their great CC plugin, Colorista, is, until June 30, only $99.00

It normally sells for $199.

Use promo code mbc99 when checking out.

I just ordered a 2nd copy for my 2nd FCPro edit system that I haven't even bought yet.

Great deal on a great CC plugin.
 
Interesting.
Thanks for the tip Matt.

By the way, have you upgraded to FC6 yet?
I did last week - and while Color seems to be a pretty powerful tool, it also seems that the interface isn't all that user friendly.

I'm starting to wonder if something like Colorista might not be a good solution for some of my less intensive color correction jobs. Not everything needs to be taken out of FCP and into Color, etc.... but many times the tools in FCP just don't cut it for me.

What do you think?
I'm curious to hear more about your impressions of Colorista - where you've found it most useful, etc...and whether or not you have any experience using Color in FCS2.

Anyone else feel free to chime in on this too.
$99 makes it rather tempting... I guess i have two days to make that call.
 
Color in FCS2 is VERY powerful, yet there are still a bunch of things with it that do not make it easy to work with, ie. long projects.

Colrista was the best $199.00 I spent on ANY Fcpro plugin.

At $99.00 it is a STEAL.
 
I'll second Colorista. Using it to color correct my latest show for History Channel. Love the way it handles color, and that I have secondaries (my adding another colorista layer). Less intimidating than Color...and since I don't have FCS 2 yet...
 
Downloaded the demo, and watched the demo video - I have to say I'm pretty impressed.
I'm going to sleep on this one....

But for anyone else who is thinking about it - from what I got out of playing with the demo for a bit...it's not really a question to me of whether or not Colorista is worth $99 - it's a question of whether I can justify spending $99 on color correction right now.

But the software is clearly intuitive and powerful from what I saw.
Seems like a real steal for $99.

Problem is, that alone isn't a reason to get it - someone could offer me a "real steal" on a Mercedes right now, and I'd have to turn it down.
:thumbsup:


Shane - glad you pointed out layering Colorista layers...as it was I was impressed with the plugin.
But now that I think about what I could do with a few layers of it on a clip.... hmmmm
very very tempting.
 
Luis,

I'm in the same boat as you. I don't need to be spending $100 right now on something I don't have a current need for, but, geez, talk about a deal...

Between this and the Magic Bullets Looks demo, ugh, I my wallet is afraid... very, very afraid.

-A
 
I'm sure it all depends on how much tweaking you do, and how many layers you put on a clip. I just played with the demo for a while, only putting one layer on a clip and correcting the entire image...and the render times were not long at all (of course I was only rendering a 5 second clip). But NOTHING like magic bullet.
 
Redner times are quite quick for me. Now the MB render engine utilizes the grpahics card as well, so having a good one will cut down on render times.
 
I gotta ask- I suck at CCing, use PP2, and probably don't have the $99. Is it easy to use and worthwhile for me to jump at this deal?
 
Color is FAR MORE sophisticated that COlorista. COLOR is akin to a DaVinci color corrector...what is used on features and high end network television. Not only do you have a primary, but up to 16 secondaries. VERY powerful application.

Colorista is more akin to the 3-way...but better.
 
Color and Colorista both definitely have their uses. Time being no object, and the project being something that was near and dear to my heart, I'd certainly use Color. You get an amazing amount of control over your images and if you enjoy the CC'ing aspect of filmmaking, it's very rewarding.

However, I participated in the recent 48 Hour Film Festival here in Atlanta, and with Colorista I managed to grade our whole 8 minute film in under an hour right before we started rendering and printing to tape. Nothing too fancy, mostly matching colors on some multi-cam scenes, and otherwise just getting the blacks black and the whites white and warming or cooling certain scenes depending on the context. I used one power window to brighten an actor's face in a dimly lit shot.

That kind of breakneck correction I think is not suited for Color at all. Being able to do a reasonable amount of work right there in the FCP timeline is great. Any kind of workflow snags with Color would've killed our time-critical project.

But if I were to go back and grade the short again, without constraints, I might elect to use Color. Then again, I was really happy with how it turned out with Colorista. So both tools have their uses, it's just a question of using the right one for the job.
 
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