Color Finesse 3.0.4 PI/LE Release Notes
30 April 2011
This file contains last minute information about Color Finesse 3.0.4, as well as a summary of changes made since the last release.
Documentation
The Color Finesse 3 Plug-in Users Guide is provided as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file which is installed along with the software.
You will need version 5.0 or later of the Acrobat Reader to open the documentation file. That latest Acrobat Reader can be downloaded from .
Installation and Setup
There is an installer to ensure that everything gets put into the right spot. You will need both a serial number to install the software. If no serial number is entered, all rendered frames will contain red lines.
Technical Support
All technical support and installation questions should be directed to support@synthetic-ap.com. A list of frequently asked questions and answers is available on our Web site at .
Known Problems and Restrictions
• Zoomed movie does not give zoomed Rapid Preview (114319).
System Requirements (Macintosh)
• PowerPC G4 or G5 or Intel processor-based Macintosh.
• Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
• Adobe After Effects 7.0/CS3/CS4/CS5 or later, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4/CS5, Apple Final Cut Pro 5.1.2 or later, or other compatible application for Color Finesse PI, Adobe After Effects 7.0/CS3/CS4/CS5 for Color Finesse LE.
• Screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or greater.
System Requirements (Windows)
• Pentium 4 or better processor with SSE instruction set.
• Windows XP SP2, Vista (32/64), or Windows 7 (32/64).
• Adobe After Effects 7.0/CS3/CS4/CS5 or later, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3/CS4/CS5, or other compatible application.
• QuickTime 7.0 or later.
• Screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or greater.
Redistribution
Color Finesse is copyrighted © 1998-2011 by Synthetic Aperture and is governed by the software license agreement that you agreed to as part of the installation process. Under no circumstances can this software be redistributed physically or electronically without specific written permission.
Color Finesse is a registered trademark, and Echo Fire, LiveFire, QuickGrade, Video Finesse and Synthetic Aperture are trademarks of Synthetic Aperture. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Changes in 3.0.4
• Updated to support After Effects CS5.5.
• Resolved issue with alpha handling in Premiere Pro with certain footage formats (Mac/Win).
• Fixed problem with certain screen shapes causing control layout problems (Win).
Changes in 3.0.3
• Corrected problem displaying User's Guide from Help menu (Mac).
• Corrected issue when saving reference images (Mac).
• Fixed memory leak in full UI which would eventually cause it to fail to launch (Mac/Win).
• Fixed memory leak in FxPlug which would cause "unable to allocate frame buffer" error (Mac).
• Corrected problem where adjusting the Vibrance control in the simplified UI failed to update (Mac/Win).
• Corrected issue where Adobe Media Encoder would report "wrong plug-in flavor" or display pink lines (Mac/Win).
• Fixed issue where Adobe Media Encoder could use extreme amounts of memory, causing swapping (Mac/Win).
Changes in 3.0.2
• Enabled support for Tangent Wave control surface.
Changes in 3.0.1
• Corrected issue on Windows where presets were not being loaded into Gallery.
• Fixed problem with B&W film presets not enabling secondary controls properly, thus appearing in color.
• Fixed issue with Color Match button generating incorrect matches.
• Corrected issue with TrueLight 3D LUTs.
• Corrected problem on Windows which could make it look like launch of full UI was hung when it was waiting for input.
• Fixed issue where Color Finesse full UI would not display its icon in the task bar.
Changes in 3.0
• Created 64-bit version of plug-in for Adobe CS5.
• Converted Mac plug-in from Carbon UI to Cocoa.
• Added FxPlug for Final Cut Pro on Mac.
• Added hue, saturation, and lightness curves.
• Added Auto Color and Auto Exposure buttons to Levels tab and plug-in.
• Added Vibrance control to HSL tab.
• Added Highlight Recovery slider to Levels tab.
• Changed way that output Levels work to match other applications.
• Corrected handling of pixel aspect ratio in UI.
• Improved launch performance of full UI.
• Added support for exporting to additional 3D LUT formats.
• Added vectorscope zooming via scroll wheel and contextual menu.
• Added calibration and video system display to vectorscope.
• Added contextual menu to Combo display to select what is displayed.
• Added new color presets (film stocks and filters).
• Added Help menu to give access to manual, Knowledge Base, and registration.
• Added ability to select units (mV or IRE) for waveform monitor.
• Changed Secondary preview UI to use single checkbox for ease-of-use.
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