Colorista has some not-quickly-apparent advantages to the tools in Premiere if you're not use to color grading.
- Colorista has a bunch of adjustments in one preset, instead of 3-5 of Premiere's being thrown on.
- Colorista is 32bit precision all the way through. Premiere's effects are still of varying processing precision. Useful if you have to make wildly large corrections.
- Colorista has three stages
- Stage 1 (Primary)is pretty similar to the three way color corrector in Premiere. It has a hugely beneficial addition of a hue/saturation/lightness control for each of the primary and secondary color ranges, something that you don't get in Premiere. Controlling the oranges for basic skin tone... worth the money alone spent on simple tweaks.
- Stage 2 (Secondary)is more unique in comparison to Premiere's tools. It allows you to mask another adjustment based on either a selected color range or a circular/rectangular mask. Try going through the trouble of creating a feathered mask for any effect in Premiere.... see what I mean? Brighten a face, add a vignette or whatever you need to do in a selective manner.
- Stage 3 (Master)is similar to the first stage with the addition of curve adjustments. It also adds another mask for a secondary masked effect.
I would say the biggest advantages are the masking features. If you don't use selective adjustments, you may not find Colorista all that different. If you want to finesse your adjustments or give your work a real "look" then Colorista is the tool for it.
Colorista isn't Speedgrade, but it's a capable alternative if you can't afford Speedgrade or are sticking to a lower version of the creative suite.
Angelo Lorenzo
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