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color finesse - AE cc2019

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October 16, 2018
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Is this no longer included in AE? Opened 2018 project in 2019, and it says Color Finesse is missing. ;(

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Correct answer imeilfx

Yep they got rid of Finesse in thist release. In changelog we can read:

After Effects does not include the Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse plug-in.

Source: New features summary | April 2018 release of After Effects CC

Inspiring

What a pity - legacy projects broken.

And Lumetri is nice for applying prefab looks, but by far not as convenient as Color Finesse for grading.

The interface of Color Finess is much clearer - for Lumteri we are folding and unfolding all the time for simple corrections.

Lumetri has some issues with other effects - it interferes with deformation fx.

Inspiring

If someone was heavily dependant on Colour Finesse in his work it is still possible because Finesse just disapeared from AE but is still avaliable as a plugin: https://www.syntheticaperture.com/products/color-finesse-3-0-pi-for-mac

Inspiring

What's next? Remove all the CC plug-ins?

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Inspiring

Yep they got rid of Finesse in thist release. In changelog we can read:

After Effects does not include the Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse plug-in.

Source: New features summary | April 2018 release of After Effects CC

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This is a real shame. Color Finesse is a very powerful and underused/underrated plugin.

Inspiring

Plugin is not dead so it is not a shame. Plugin just is not a part of AE anymore (but you can buy it and use it in AE) - probably because of being underused/underrated as you said and because Adobe built Lumetri Color panels.

Inspiring

haven't found it as well

Legend

Seems like it's deprecated in favour of (the admittedly pretty good now) Lumetri Color.

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I didn't see it either. I haven't checked the feature notes for this release but that is where I would look for an answer.