ISP FilmColor Like HDR User's Guide

• What is User's Guide for?
• Specifications
• How to Install ISP FilmColor Like HDR
• How to Install Plugin
• How to Activate
• How to Deactivate
• How to Uninstall
• Create a High Dynamic Range Video Clip
• Parameter Details
• Support Information

This document describes the basic usage of ISP Film Color Like HDR plugin. If you are very new to ISP Film Color Like HDR plugin, or if you have any difficulties on using it, please refer to this document.

ISP Film Color Like HDR is a video editing plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro and Grass Valley EDIUS.

The specification of this product is as follows. For the latest information, such as system requirements, supporting operation system, please refer to ISP Film Color Like HDR plugin web site.

Supported Host Application:

Adobe After Effects CS3 or later

Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 or later

Apple Final Cut Pro 7, X

Apple Motion 5

Grass Valley EDIUS 6, EDIUS Pro 6.5, 7

Operating System:

Macintosh^(†1) / Windows

for Final Cut Pro 7, X supports Macintosh only

for Motion 5 supports Macintosh only

for EDIUS 6, EDIUS Pro 6.5, 7supports Windows only

System Requirements^(†2):

As a rule, to comply with that of Premiere Pro / After Effects / Final Cut Pro / EDIUS you are using.

†1 For Macintosh, this products only supports Intel processor.
†2 Your computer must be online for product activation.

Here describes how to install ISP Film Color Like HDR plugin.

• How to Install Plugin
• How to Activate

• Exits Host Application

If host application is running, exit it.

• Run ISP Tools License Manager

Run "ISP Tools License Manager". Please check license authentication status which is indicated at "Installation/activation status" area.



ISP Tools License Manager(Macintosh)



ISP Tools License Manager(Windows)

• Install ISP FilmColor Like HDR

Select the version of host application which you are going to install ISP FilmColor Like HDR plugin, and then click "Install" button. When you see a message "Installation has done.", the installation is done.

By pressing "Browse" button, you can specify host application which you are going to install ISP Film Color Like HDR plugin (ref. Confirm Existence of Plugin File).



Specify Host Application's Path(Macintosh)



Specify Host Application's Path(Windows)

• Confirm Success of Installation

Run host application, see whether "ISP FilmColor Like HDR" is listed in "Effects & Presets" window.



Effects Window (Premiere Pro)

Confirm Existence of Plugin File

In case of ISP FilmColor Like HDR does not listed at previous step, please confirm that ISP FilmColor Like HDR plugin file is in plugin folder. When CS5.5 is installed by default setting, Premiere Pro/After Effects plugin folder will be as follows. For other versions users, or if you have specified where to install Premiere Pro/After Effects on installation, please substitute it into your environment.

Macintosh

Default Destination Folder

Host Application	File Path
Premiere Pro/After Effects	/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/CS5.5/MediaCore
Final Cut Pro	/Library/Plug-ins/FxPlug




Plugin File to be Installed

Host Application	Plugin File Name	Description
Premiere Pro/After Effects	ISP_FilmColor_Like_HDR_v1_0.plugin	Creates High Dynamic Range Video Clip
Final Cut Pro	ISP_FilmColor_Like_HDR_v1_0.fxplug	Creates High Dynamic Range Video Clip

Windows

Default Destination Folder

Host Application	File Path
Premiere Pro/After Effects	C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\CS5.5\MediaCore
EDIUS	C:\Program Files\Grass Valley\EDIUS 6\PlugIn




Plugin File to be Installed

Host Application	Plugin File Name	Description
Premiere Pro/After Effects	ISP_FilmColor_Like_HDR_v1_0.aex	Creates High Dynamic Range Video Clip
EDIUS	ISP_FilmColor_Like_HDR_v1_0.tpi	Creates High Dynamic Range Video Clip

After installing ISP Film Color Like HDR plugin, please activate it within 15 days. Users can install/activate ISP Film Color Like HDR plugin upto 2 computers (must be the same platform (Macintosh/Windows) ).

• Exits Host Application

If Host Application is running, exit it.

• Run Activation

Make sure that your computer is online.
Run "ISP Tools License Manager". Type product serial number and click "Activation" button.
When you see a message "Activation has done.", the activation is done.
If you have failed on activation, please check what you input and retry.
If you need to make an activation offline, please contact our support desk.

If you would like to transfer a license, you will need a deactivation first.

• Exits Host Application

If Host Application is running, exit it.

• Run Deactivation

Make sure that your computer is online.
Run "ISP Tools License Manager". Click "Deactivation" button.
When you see a message "Deactivation has done.", the deactivation is done.
If you have failed on deactivation by network error or any other reason, please contact our suppport desk.

Uninstallation removes plugin, also deactivation will be performed if needed.

• Exits Host Application

If Host Application is running, exit it.

• Run Uninstallation

Make sure that your computer is online.
Run License Manager. Click "Uninstall" button.

• Confirm Success of Uninstallation

Run Host Application, see whether "ISP Film Color Like HDR" is not listed in "Effects & Presets" window.

• Source Preparation

Load your source video into a sequence.



Load as sequence

• Apply ISP FilmColor Like HDR

Apply ISP FilmColor Like HDR to the sequence, the source video turns to high dynamic range video with using default parameters.



Apply ISP Film Color Like HDR



Effect Control Panel of ISP Film Color Like HDR



The Result

• Parameter Adjustment

Why don't you adjust parameters as you like? For the details of each parameter, please refer to "Parameter Details".

Here shows some parameter adjustment examples. Click each image to enlarge.

Original Video Clip
Blur=100, Amount=1, Saturation=6	Blur=100, Amount=3, Saturation=6
Blur=100, Amount=9, Saturation=6	Blur=50, Amount=1, Saturation=100

Parameter List: ISP Film Color Like HDR

Parameter Name	Description
Blur	Adjusts the amount of blur.
Amount	Adjusts the amount of exposure modified images to pile up. If you set it 1, one exposure modified image will be added on foreground and another one on background. As the result, image synthesis will be performed by 3 images in total.
Saturation	Adjusts the color saturation.

For the latest information of the product, please check our website.

ISP Film Color Like HDR Website

http://www.isp.co.jp/en/products/tools/filmcolor/hdr

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