by RE:Vision Effects·Color Grading
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Earns its place for combining automatic contrast enhancement, multi-resolution sharpening, and 3D LUT inversion in one color tool. Version 1.3.1, last updated September 2024, works across After Effects and Premiere Pro from CS6 through the 2022-24 releases, and a demo video is available.
RE:Vision Effects RE:Grade adds color correction tools to After Effects and Premiere Pro, with features to manipulate saturation and exposure alongside looks and multi-app workflow tools, including 3D LUT inversion support. It aims to restore footage otherwise deemed beyond repair.
An Automatic Contrast Enhancement (ACE) tool addresses difficult mixed-lighting or very uneven illumination situations, such as shooting against a window. A multi-resolution processing method combines global contrast, local contrast, and per-pixel sharpness in a single tool, offering adjustment at different scales without artifacts such as halos, ringing, or clamping. This is useful for SDR to HDR processing to reveal shadow detail or handle extreme level remapping from incorrectly exposed areas or unknown log-like curves.
RE:Grade supports Hald Clut and can save as a 3D LUT file, letting you build libraries of color looks. Its color look-up inversion feature helps normalize footage across a multi-application workflow. Additional tools include Exposure Fusion tone mapping for HDR-like effects, a mini-color corrector with CDL controls, HLS color and tone limiters, and color fringe attenuation.
RE:Vision Effects RE:Grade is best for colorists and graders working in After Effects and Premiere Pro who need to restore, normalize, and enhance difficult, low-light, or washed-out footage.
RE:Vision Effects RE:Grade is completely free to download and use.
RE:Grade supports After Effects and Premiere Pro across CS6, CC, CC 2014, CC 2015, CC 2017, CC 2018, CC 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022-24. Its system requirements match the OS and hardware requirements for the version of After Effects you are running, so if your host application runs, the plugin should too. Version 1.3.1 is the current version, last updated September 2024, and earlier updates added Apple M1 support for Premiere and initial After Effects Multi-Frame Rendering support.
RE:Grade includes a Color Admin feature for inverting 3D LUTs using Hald Clut in and out. The workflow generates a reference CLUT image that you send out, reimport, and use to compute the deviation from truth, then applies the inverse correction. This helps restore consistency across a multi-application workflow. RE:Grade also supports Hald Clut more broadly, letting you save looks as 3D LUT files and build libraries of color looks to normalize your footage.
RE:Grade offers blind handling of log curves, so you can drop in flat log footage of unknown origin and apply RE:Grade Contrast. You adjust the head, middle-point, and tail of the non-linear transfer and protect the highlights to avoid clamping and over-saturation. For difficult mixed-lighting or uneven illumination, such as shooting against a window, the Automatic Contrast Enhancement (ACE) tool adjusts local contrast so every part of the image reads clearly with balanced color and saturation.
RE:Grade is listed as free in this catalog. For current licensing terms and any activation details, check the developer's page at RE:Vision Effects. The plugin uses REVisionActivate for licensing, and recent updates addressed activation issues, including licensing fixes mainly on Windows and an installer requirement for macOS Monterey. RE:Grade is also included in the RE:Vision Effects Effections Bundle, so you may already have access to it through that package.
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