Grade Assistant Scopes and Monitors for After Effects Gets 64Bit Boost

Christian Lett has released a new version of his Grade Assistant plugin. one that has been completely rewritten from the ground up as a native 64 bit plugin for After Effects.

Grade Assistant 2 provides the next generation of scopes and monitoring for compositing and grading in After Effects

Grade Assistant provides display information and tools for Color grading directly in After Effects. Grade Assistant 2 offers five redesigned and some new scopes and monitors. This includes a waveform monitor that can display Luma, and RGB views. It also includes a new Vectorscope, a channel parade display, a slice waveform and a new Histogram view.

In addition to the new scopes and monitors is a new and completely customizable user interface. You now have the ability to move the scopes around and resize them as you like, right in the the After Effects comp viewer, making it easy to setup your workspace.

Grade Assistant Key Features:

• Five scopes:
  • Waveform monitor (Luma, and RGB views)
  • NEW! Vectorscope, including Hue Vectors graticule designed by grading guru Alexis Hurkman
  • Channel Parade (RGB and YCbCr views)
  • Slice Waveform (Luma, and RGB views)
  • NEW! Histogram (Luma, and RGB views)
• Five monitor layouts:
  • Full-screen single
  • Four-way split
  • Four-way classic
  • Windowed (resize and move anywhere on screen)
  • Off (scopes only)
• Fully customisable interface – use only the scopes you need for the job, and place them anywhere on screen
• Three scope sampling levels – High (1:1), Medium (1:2) and Low (1:4) for optimum performance whatever your hardware
• Alpha and Luma monitoring in the primary monitor; YCbCr monitoring added to four-way set-ups
• Plus all the great features from the original plugin:
  • Compare with original (or alternative) layer
  • Gamma (and now Gain) controls for checking black and white levels