Reviews & Awards

"Color correction/color grading is really coming into its own these days with more quality cameras than ever before and affordable color grading tools everywhere you look. Colorista II adds a powerful new option to the mix … with no import/export/round-tripping!"

Studio Daily - Scott Simmons    Read more

Best Buy Award

"Overall, if you're interested in advancing from color correction to color grading, Colorista II is a great place to start."

Digital Arts - Barry Stead    Read more

Best of Show DV Black Diamond Award Winner - NAB 2011

DV - NewBay Media    Read more

"The versatility of the secondary masking/keying and the many controls Colorista II has to offer is amazing. It introduces much of the power of a full-blown color correction application in a single filter. Most other plug-in companies are just catching up to the original Colorista with their own color correction filters, but Red Giant has raised the bar again with Magic Bullet Colorista II."

DV - Oliver Peters    Read more

"If you’re a fan of Colorista 1 then you’ll definitely want to spend the very reasonable $99 to upgrade to Colorista II. If you’re new to the game entirely then the $299 purchase price is well worth it as this is a full featured color grading tool that is leaps and bounds better than its predecessor (which was already a good tool) and leaps and bounds better than a lot of competitors."

Pro Video Coalition - Scott Simmons    Read more

"In the week since Colorista II has been on the market, I’ve seen a number of forum questions about it and the core issue many have is ...Why do you need Colorista II, or for that matter, any other color correction plug-in? I use Color and like it a lot, but it’s not the right tool for every project... By using Colorista II, you keep all of its horsepower, while still able to work with all of the other After Effects tools."

Digital Films - Oliver Peters    Read more

"A very deep application."

Mac Break Studio - Mark Spencer    Read more

"Performance is fantastic, especially when working within After Effects 64 bit. Having extremely powerful tools such as the Keyer and Power Mask tool at your fingertips make it well worth the money."

Art of the Guillotine - Tej Babra    Read more

"I was glad to see that when Red Giant went to update Colorista, they didn't just throw in a couple of new features, they went back to the drawing board, looked at what Colorista did well, and what it didn't do at all, an made HUGE steps to make it a product worth picking up, or upgrading to.  I can easily see Colorista II becoming part of my post production process in the future."

Digital Producer - Kevin McAuliffe    Read more

"With the recent release of Colorista II and the addition of secondary color correction, more flexible masking, and UI refinements the plugin has solidified its place as our go-to favorite for grading within those desktop applications... [T]his is a very solid update of the After Effects/FCP workhorse."

FX Guide - John Montgomery    Read more

"As always with Red Giant products, what’s under the hood is just as impressive as the paint job. The plugin installed, ran, and rendered flawlessly. Compared to the stock Final Cut color grading tools, Colorista 2 handles transition areas more smoothly, and can push color farther before starting to show compression artifacts and digital noise."

VID35 -     Read more

"Makes grading fun... A massive update, the new version of Colorista transforms the basic v1 into a solid and comprehensive grading plug-in."

Sound on Sound Magazine - JG Harding    Read more

"For me, even though I generally grade in a stand alone application, Colorista II has become one of those must-have plug-ins for quick projects in FCP. I wouldn’t be without it."

HD Magazine - Adam Garstone    Read more

9 (10)

"Like some of Magic Bullet's other filters such as Looks or Misfire (which I find myself going to a lot), the quality is top notch, and easily trumps any similar plug-ins I've seen from other developers."

MicroFilmMaker - Mark Colegrove    Read more

"Magic Bullet Colorista is one of the more indispensable post-production plugins in my toolbox, as it is a very high-quality primary color corrector. I like Colorista because it’s powerful, it’s easy to use, and it’s cross-platform, which means you can use the same plugin on Macs and PCs, and within Final Cut, Premiere Pro, and After Effects."

No Film School - Koo    Read more

"Overall, if you're interested in advancing from color correction to color grading, Colorista II is a great place to start."

Event DV - Jan Ozer    Read more

“I’m a DaVinci colorist and I have a full DaVinci Resolve system which I use for the series color correction because it’s real time. But Colorista has almost all the same features in terms of primary, secondary correction and power shapes and so for an effects sequence, I can work on a shot-by-shot basis with Colorista in After Effects."

Java Post Production - Jack Tunnicliffe, Owner     Read more