#COLOR FINALE PRO COLOR MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE#

The ideal situation is to never leave the editing application, but that requires more than just a few, simple color correction filters.

Roundtrips pose a few issues, including turnaround time, additional media rendering, and frequent translation errors with the edit and effects data between the edit and the grading application. So you might ask, why bother? But if you edit with Final Cut Pro X, then this requires a roundtrip between Final Cut and a dedicated grading suite or application. In the last year Lavrov created both Cinema Grade, now owned and run by Riddle, and Color Finale 2.0, owned and run by Lavrov himself under his own company, Color Trix Ltd.Д«y focusing exclusively on the development of Color Finale 2.0, Lavrov can bring to market more advanced feature ideas, upgrades, and options with the intent of making Final Cut a professional grading solution.ДЇor many, Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve and Fimlight's Baselight systems set the standard for color correction and grading.

#COLOR FINALE PRO COLOR MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE#

One of the earliest was Color Finale - the brainchild of colorist/trainer Denver Riddle and ex-DI supervisor and color correction software designer Dmitry Lavrov. Final Cut Pro X initially offered only basic color correction tools, which were quickly augmented by third party developers. HDR, camera raw, and log profiles are an ever-increasing part of video acquisition, so post-production color correction has become an essential part of every project. We all know FCPX now has colour wheels and curves, but what about doing more advanced colour corrections? How about a plugin that can track masks, use ACES colour spaces and add film grain? Oliver Peters takes a look a the new Colour Finale 2.

Color finale pro color management