Red Giant Software Releases Free Magic Bullet Colorista and LUT Buddy Plugins

Ryan Koo

04.10.11 @ 10:03AM Tags : colorcorrection, colorista, lut, magicbullet, nab2011, plugins, redgiant

Red Giant Software has released two free plugins that work in Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, and After Effects: a limited version of their great Colorista color-correction plugin, as well as a new plugin named LUT Buddy.

Interestingly enough, the free version of Colorista isn’t just a stripped-down version of the first Colorista — in its simplified form it can export Color Decision Lists, which is a new standard designed to be interoperable with other color correction programs. Yes, it’s the color-correction equivalent of EDLs. Stu Maschwitz has more on CDLs and LUT Buddy. For reference, here’s a look at the paid version of Colorista II.

Link: Magic Bullet Colorista Free and LUT Buddy

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Samuel Hurtado on 04.10.11 @ 12:05PM

and here’s a tutorial on using Colorista I to get the blockbuster look
http://vimeo.com/5298634

awfully useful tool, and now with an unbeatable price!!

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Ammar on 04.10.11 @ 1:05PM

the first plug in is just a 3 way color corrector from colorista, the LUT is a very usefull stuff.

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Bill Voelker on 04.13.11 @ 3:53PM

Colorista is great. Just as every single RAW picture needs to be touched up in Photoshop, all video footageL footage can be improved with Colorista, especially when shot flat.

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Dimitri on 04.14.11 @ 3:07AM

Too bad the free download version is only for Mac-users :-(
However, the Color Finesse tool in CS5 is also quite extensive.

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jopinter on 04.14.11 @ 3:50AM

Absolutely brilliant tutorial. I used to use COLOR FINESSE, but here you’re able to work on the skin tones in a more direct way. Great!

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Heiko on 04.15.11 @ 8:14AM

Has anybody managed to install the free plugins?
I downloaded Colorista and the LUT buddy, both for Mac/FCP.
The files are .zip but can’t be extracted – I tried archiver, Stuffit Expander and even 7zip on my Windows Laptop, they all say that these are not valid zip volumes.
Contacting Red Giant support is more work than writing a masters thesis, so I think I’ll just forget about it…

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Andrew D on 06.2.11 @ 7:17PM

So I’m using FCP 7 on a MacBook Pro, and when I try to render while using Lut Buddy FCP quits on me. Is anyone else having this problem?

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- Heath on 06.5.11 @ 1:30AM
  
  Andrew, I am having the exact same problem. Very frustrating. I feel as if I have tried everything to fix it and have no solution yet.
  
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Ramon Porto on 04.8.13 @ 8:42AM

o que um colorista faz ?

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