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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:18:45 -0400
From: Frank Wylie <sfwylie@woh.rr.com>
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Todd,

I'd just negotiate the purchase of Frishluft Curves and put it in the AE 
package as default!  ;)

http://www.frischluft.com/curves/

Seriously, I used this plugin extensively in color grading about 6 
digital restorations and it's a lifesaver in dealing with weird, 
discontinuous gamut problems and for exact color matching problems.

It has a wonderful, customizable interface with hugely expandable curves 
to make very fine grained adjustments.

Even has a histogram overlay.

Can't say enough good things about the plugin...

Frank Wylie
Library of Congress
Timer/grader

Disclaimer:  My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.


On 10/11/2013 3:22 PM, Todd Kopriva wrote:
> re-awakening a dormant thread:
>
> If we were to spend time improving the Curves effect, what would be the changes that you'd want to see? Be as specific as possible, and list things in your priority order. Anything in the Curves effect is fair game for this conversation, including user interface, performance (as noted by Chris below), and additional features.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of
>> Chris Zwar
>> Sent: Saturday, 22 June 2013 18:50
>> To: After Effects Mail List
>> Subject: [AE] Levels vs Curves render times
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was surprised by something a work colleague encountered this week.  I
>> didn't see the project, but I believe it was quite long, with many layers of
>> video in it.
>> When he initially went to render it it looked like being a 48 hour render (this
>> is after the render has been going for several hours).  This was too long, and
>> he guessed that the many instances of the curves plugin were slowing
>> everything down.  He stopped the render and went through the project and
>> replaced all the curves plugins with levels instead, to get the same effect.
>> Then the entire project rendered in about 2 hours.
>> That's a massive difference in speed - this is AE v5, so not something affected
>> by cache.
>> I can understand that curves may be slightly slower to render than levels -
>> but I would never have expected such a massive difference.  And my
>> colleague is something of an AE guru and said he had experienced this
>> before, and that he's always found curves to be a slow plugin to render.  I'd
>> never really noticed...
>> Any thoughts?
>
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