21 October, 2008

AAV ColorLab v1.0 beta 5

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Here's beta 5 now, with tons of improvements. I know I'm stretching the idea of a "beta" version, but that's gonna change. Further versions leading up to v1.0 will only be bug fixes. The goal now is to get a fully stable v1.0 out the door. So please send me any problems you find. Thanks to everyone who's mailed me so far, it's very encouraging even to get complaints. :)

ColorLab b5 screen shots


Release highlights
  • Massive ease-of-use improvements to the user interface.
  • Easy White Balance correction - in the Adjust effect (formerly Levels).
  • Gamma control in Adjust.
  • Blur effect. Like the gaussian blur in Vegas but faster.
  • Fixed using ColorLab from multiple Windows user accounts.
  • Fixed (hopefully) extraneous keyframes being created.
  • Dynamic allocation and release of video card memory.
  • Many fixes and tweaks.
  • Improved documentation/readme, in PDF accessed through the start menu.
Please let me know of your experience with this beta, either as a comment to this post, or by mailing me (see the documentation).
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 21, 2008 at 4:52 PM

    Wonderful new interface. thank you for the hard work.

    Just a quick connect on the white balance... When white balance is selected, a cross-hair cursor appears, but ONLY when the mouse is over the plug-in screen. As soon as it moves over the video preview window, the cursor changes to an arrow. It would be better to have it remain as a cross-hair until the color selection has been made.

    Hope that makes sense!

    Regardless, this is the plug-in I use most. So thank you again for the great work.

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  2. UnknownOctober 21, 2008 at 6:29 PM

    Ah yes, I'll get to fixing that. Hopefully I can steal the mouse cursor from Vegas when the eyedropper is active. I'll also add so you can select a rectangular area of pixels and get an average. Video can be noisy as we all know.

    As usual I'm glad people like the software, thanks for your encouraging words. :)

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  3. AnonymousOctober 22, 2008 at 4:12 PM

    Carl,
    When I opened a project with beta 4 in use (after uninstalling 4 and installing beta 5), the adjust checkbox was on by default, and had to be turned off on all the affected clips.
    Also, I got a .NET Framework error:
    Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application...
    InvalidArgument=Value of '184' is not valid for 'SelectedIndex' Paramenter name: SelectedIndex."
    I assume this has to do with colorlab.
    Regards,
    Mary Waitrovich

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