by NewBlue·Color Grading
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Earns its place in the toolfarm library by folding four separate Filters collections — ColorFast 2, Recreate, Recolor, and Refocus — into a single install spanning 27 filters and more than 250 presets. A demo video is available.
NewBlue Filters Ultimate collects NewBlue's entire suite of Filters products into one package for After Effects, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, among other hosts. It provides 27 filters and video effects with over 250 presets for correcting, enhancing, and adding dimension to footage.
The suite is organized into four collections. ColorFast 2 handles primary and secondary color correction, white balance, color masks, and 4-point keyframeable shape masks, backed by real-time color scopes and 65 presets. Recreate reproduces classic film and TV looks through effects like Film Grain, Bleach Bypass, Day for Night, Duochrome, and Vignette.
Recolor covers color replacement, gradient and selective tints, saturation EQ, and hue shifting, while Refocus adds Tilt Shift depth of field, Dream Glow, Soft Focus, Light Leak, Fish Eye, and frame-rate conversion. It runs on macOS 10.15 and later and Windows 10.
NewBlue Filters Ultimate is best for editors and colorists in After Effects, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and other supported hosts who want film-style looks, recoloring, and focus effects from one suite.
NewBlue Filters Ultimate is completely free to download and use.
NewBlue Filters Ultimate supports Black Magic DaVinci Resolve 15 and later. Beyond Resolve, it also works with Adobe After Effects CC or later, Adobe Premiere CC (which may need updating to the latest version), NewBlue Titler Pro 2 and up, Avid Media Composer and Symphony 8+, Magix Vegas Pro 17+, Video Pro X and Movie Studio 18+, and Grass Valley EDIUS 9 and X. Note that in EDIUS, effects and transitions performance is not real-time, so plan your workflow accordingly.
NewBlue Filters Ultimate requires a recent Nvidia or AMD GPU that supports OpenGL 2.1 or later, with at least 1 GB of VRAM. On the operating system side, it runs on macOS 10.15 and later or Windows 10. These requirements apply across the supported host applications, so it's worth checking your graphics card and driver support before installing to make sure the filters render as expected.
NewBlue Filters Ultimate includes the company's complete suite of Filters products: ColorFast 2 plus the Recreate, Recolor, and Refocus collections. Together they total 27 filters and video effects with over 250 presets. ColorFast 2 focuses on primary and secondary color correction; Recreate builds classic film and TV looks; Recolor handles color replacement and tinting; and Refocus covers focus and lens effects such as Tilt Shift, Soft Focus, Light Leak, and Fish Eye.
NewBlue Filters Ultimate is listed as free in this catalog. Licensing terms can change over time, so for the most current details on pricing, activation, and any trial or purchase options, check NewBlue's own product page. The plugin bundles the full Filters suite and works across hosts including After Effects, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve, so confirming the license that applies to your specific editing software is a good step before installing.
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