A RGB-Contrast-Plugin
 

I just wrote a plugin for FCP, which changes contrast and gamma similar to Photoshops contrast-feature. A s- and e-curve are utilized for getting a smooth film-like look.
You can download it here:
http://www.dominik.ws/DominiksContrast.fxplug.zip
Just extract that zip-file to your ~/Library/Plug-Ins/FxPlug folder. If that folder doesn't exist, create it.

Btw, the function used for gamma basically is an exponential-function, and the one for contrast is the logistic function. The formulas can be seen here:
http://www.dominik.ws/dc/formulas.pdf

Some examples, what kind of perfect high-contrast you can get with my plugin in a few seconds without any clipping or saturation-anomalies because of yuv-processing:
http://www.dominik.ws/dc/e1.mov
http://www.dominik.ws/dc/e2.mov

I wrote this plugin, because there are no rgb-curves or anything comparable in FCP, but I missed it a lot and couldn't find any alternative.

I hope you people soon realize, that this is the plugin you always have been waiting for. ;)

i will try it and get back with comments.

Thanks a lot for sharing this!!!!

Here are some more examples:
http://www.dominik.ws/dc/e3.mov
http://www.dominik.ws/dc/e4.mov

Thanks Dominik

very nice, especially the timelapse clouds. altho, I really liked the look of the "before" water in e3, which was lost after the effect was applied. thanks for givng this out.

sorry for the stupid question but, how i install it?
thanks a lot

~ is your home-directory. It should also work in the global Library-dir.

You are the man Dominik!!!!!
Great plugin!!!
I´ve been playing around with it and very soon i realized the beauty of it. Gives a lot of control and can make very extreme tweaking without loosing any detail.
Thanks a lot. Please continue making this kind of great plugs!!!!

Nice work, Dominik, THANKS.

If you get another moment of genius, I miss the 6-way color tool available as a 3rd party plug-in for Vegas... :)

If you make a way to accept contributions, let us know.

Neither I use Vegas nor I know any 3rd party plugins for it. Can you explaing, what's that plugin (exactly) doing?
I don't think you can contribute time. ;)

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This plug will not install in FCP 4.5 and above on a Leopard machine.
oooorrrrrr will it?

I don't know. Definitely it works with FCP 6. (I use the fxplug-sdk 1.2.3.)

I'm pretty sure FxPlug support starts with FCP6.

it starts in FCP 5.1 but newer versions of the SDK expose newer functions that are only supported in the later versions of FCP