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Color Finesse 2.1.9 LE for Adobe After Effects CS4 Release Notes
23 March 2008

This file contains last minute information about Color Finesse 2.1.9, as well as a summary of changes made since the last release.

Documentation

The Color Finesse 2 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 willneed 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

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 forthe 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 isavailable at .

Known Problems and Restrictions

• Zoomed movie does not give zoomed Rapid Preview (114319).

System Requirements (Macintosh)
• Intel processor-based Macintosh.
• Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
• Adobe After Effects CS4.
• Screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or greater.

System Requirements (Windows)
• Pentium III or better processor with SSE instruction set. For AMDprocessors, that means an Athlon XP or later.
• Windows XP SP2 or Vista.
• Adobe After Effects CS4.
• QuickTime 7.0 or later.
• Screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or greater.

Redistribution

Color Finesse is copyrighted © 1998-2007 by Synthetic Aperture and is governed by the software license agreement that you agreed to as part of the installation process. Under no circumstances canthis software be redistributed physically or electronically without specific written permission.

Color Finesse is a registered trademark, and Echo Fire, LiveFire, Video Finesse and Synthetic Aperture are trademarks of Synthetic Aperture. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Changes in 2.1.9

• Corrected issue where footage containing alpha channels could causewhite areas to appear within Color Finesse UI.
• Fixed situation where the Color Finesse UI would initially show a black frame, requiring a move to another frame and back to display properly.

Changes in 2.1.8

• Corrected issue with using Blackmagic Intensity and Intensity Pro cards for external previewing. The preview image appeared skewed in 720p modes and would crash in 1080i.
•Eliminated spurious "Color Finesse does not recognize that image format" error messages when starting the Color Finesse UI on Windows.

Changes in 2.1.7

• Corrected issue when being applied by Automatic Duck's Pro Import AE.
• UI now displays correctly under 64-bit Windows XP and Vista.
• Fixed problem loading Photoshop .acv files into the Curves control on Intel based systems.• Updated ASC CDL support to conform to version 1.01 of the spec.

Changes in 2.1.6

• Corrected issue with saving presets while running in demo (red line) mode.
• Corrected issue with AE CS3's multiprocessing support where some frames were not being properly processed.
• Corrected issue with alpha channel being ignored in 32-bit float projects.

Changes in 2.1.5

• Addedsupport for Ethernet interface to Colorociter.
• Corrected issue with improper gamma on the external preview monitor when using Blackmagic cards on the Mac. This added a new checkbox option to the Preview preferences pane.
• Corrected issue of over-eager optimization which prevented Color Finesse from running on Mac systems using early G4 processors (PowerPC 7400/7410) and slowed other G4...