Color Finesse 3.0.

15 LE for Adobe After Effects Bundle Release

Notes
5 July 2016
This file contains last minute information about Color Finesse 3.0.15, 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 in the Plug-ins folder.
You will need version 6.0 or later of the Acrobat Reader to open the
documentation file. That latest Acrobat Reader can be downloaded from
<http://www.adobe.com>.
Installation and Setup
The software will be installed when you install After Effects. The first time you
apply Color Finesse to a layer you will be asked for your Color Finesse serial
number. Enter the number, register the software, and you will not be asked for
the serial number again. If no serial number is entered, all rendered frames
will contain red lines and you will be asked for the serial number each time
you use the Color Finesse plug-in. Registration of Color Finesse is done by
each user.
Technical Support
All technical support and installation questions should be directed to Adobe
Technical Support. More information on support options is available at
<http://www.adobe.com/support>.
Known Problems and Restrictions
Zoomed movie does not give zoomed Rapid Preview (114319).

System Requirements (Macintosh)

Intel processor-based Macintosh.
Mac OS X 10.7.4 or later.
Adobe After Effects.
Screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or greater.
System Requirements (Windows)
Windows 7 64 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8 64, Windows 8.1 64, or
Windows 10 64.
Adobe After Effects.
QuickTime 7.3 or later.
Screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or greater.
Redistribution
Color Finesse is copyrighted 1998-2016 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,
documentation, or other supplied materials be redistributed physically or
electronically without specific written permission.
Color Finesse is a registered trademark, and Echo Fire, LiveFire,
QuickGrades, Video Finesse and Synthetic Aperture are trademarks of
Synthetic Aperture. All other trademarks are property of their respective
owners.
Changes in 3.0.15
Update installers to support After Effects CC 2015.3.
Fixed crash when attempting to select a video preview device that is
currently disconnected (Mac).
Changes in 3.0.14
Fixed issue where the full UI could not be launched if more than one

adjustment layer had Color Finesse applied (Mac/Win).

Expressions affecting Color Finesse parameters were not always
updating the Color Finesse controls (Mac/Win).
Right-click contextual menus for the hue wheels and curves within the
Simplified UI were not displaying in the correct location (Mac).
Changes in 3.0.12
Fixed issue with presets not loading into Gallery (Mac).
Changes in 3.0.11
Update to support After Effects CC 2015.
Fix issue that was causing Mac OS 10.10 (Yosemite) to de-schedule
Color Finesse, causing hang of both the Color Finesse UI and After
Effects (Mac).
Ensure that reference images can be saved, even if the default folder (My
Documents) is missing (Win).
Changes in 3.0.10
Simplify installation of render nodes by eliminating requirement of
manually entering serial number (Mac/Win).
When in trial/unregistered mode, flag watermarked frames to avoid disk
cache pollution (Mac/Win).
Ensure that user presets can be saved, even if the default folder (My
Documents) is missing (Win).
Changes in 3.0.9
Updated for compatibility with After Effects CC (12.0).
Changes in 3.0.8
Correct small memory leak in plug-in and UI (Mac).
Correct Gallery issue under Windows 8 (Win).
Make error messages more helpful when wrong version of plug-in is
installed (Mac/Win).

Changes in 3.0.7
HSL curves settings were not being restored properly when loading a
saved settings file. (Win).
Changes in 3.0.6
Make cursor change within Simplified Interface curves to make it easier
to select end points (Mac).
Remove ability to delete first and last curve points in the Simplified
Interface curves to match Windows behavior (Mac).
Removed Rapid Preview button from Reference panes. It is not supposed
to function there and caused confusion (Mac/Win).
Changes in 3.0.5
Updated to support After Effects CS6.
Fixed memory leak when scrubbing footage (Win).
Fixed problem with loading reference images into the Gallery (Mac).
Added support for saving large (over 4000 pixels wide) reference images
(Win).
Resolved issue where Gallery filenames were displaying shortened MSDOS style names (Win).
Resolved issue where some images would exhibit a gamma (midtown)
change in the waveform monitor (Win).
Fixed problem in default Colorociter settings file (Mac).
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).
Corrected problem where adjusting the Vibrance control in the simplified
UI failed to update (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.
Changed serialization to not require user input of individual serial number.
Changes in 3.0
Updated plug-in to 64-bit.
Converted Mac plug-in from Carbon UI to Cocoa.
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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