We originally made Color Finale with the intention of rounding out the color grading capabilities of Final Cut Pro. Years ago, it didn’t have as many color tools as it does today, so our original plugin was a solution to keeping editing and grading in the same place instead of round-tripping into another app. FCP has grown a lot since then, but we’ve kept pushing — based on our own needs and user feedback — so that Color Finale 2 Pro still is the go-to color grading tool for creators and videographers who prefer to edit in FCP.

In 2025, the first new tool we added was Color Atlas (v2.11). It started as an experiment to map tones to colors in a more intuitive, creative way. We wanted something that didn’t box you into traditional wheels or curves — more like building your own palette for shadows, mids, and highs, then blending it however feels right. It turned out to be great for stylised looks, duotones, and all manner of creative ideas.

Then July rolled in with two features. Adding a skin tone hue to Six Vectors was highly requested by our users, and the other feature is somewhat unusual and found mostly in high end systems, requiring a bit more understanding of the underlying processes: the Texture EQ tool (v2.12).

The skin hue control added a more precise way to control this important region of colors right out of the box, instead of going back and forth between the red and yellow vectors. And Texture EQ, inspired by frequency separation, became our go-to for taming skin pores, cloth patterns, or just adding texture back via sharpening on selected frequency bands. It’s one of those tools that can quietly become an essential part of your final look.

Another long-requested feature landed in v2.13: native Final Cut Pro masks. Magnetic, Shape, Draw and the rest could now be directly combined with Color Finale 2 Pro’s own built-in masks and tracking. Now you can just drop a mask in FCP and grade inside it with any of our tools. We also refined the white balance tool so temperature shifts didn’t affect luminosity of the overall image, something that bugged us every time we tried to do subtle corrections.

And alongside all that, some earlier updates reshaped the workflow too: the AI Person Mask for quick isolation, publishing masks created in Color Finale 2 Pro so they can mask other effects, and expanded film emulation controls for halation, bloom, vignette, and subtractive color.

Try everything Color Finale 2 Pro has as of today with our free 7-day trial if you’re a new user. If you’re already on active support, all of this is yours forever thanks to our perpetual license. When you feel the time is right to update to the latest tools we offer, you can purchase an additional year of updates and support from us.