Apple's new Color in Final Cut Studio 2 [images]
updated 06:50 pm EDT, Sun April 15, 2007
Color in Final Cut Studio
As part of its new Final Cut Studio 2 announcement at NAB 2007, Apple on Sunday unveiled Color, its new application designed for advanced color correction. Apple's Color application offers a logical task-based color grading and finishing workflow with advanced color correction tools such as gamma, lift and gain adjustments, as well as custom R, G, B and luma curves, and the secondaries provide the ability to isolate specific areas of an image with soft-edged mattes and custom-shaped vignettes, which can be tracked with ease. Professional scopes provide precise monitoring of chrominance and luminance values via waveforms, histograms and new 3D scopes.
Color includes over 20 signature looks which can be customized to create a unique mood for any given project, and offers a seamless roundtrip workflow where projects can be sent from Final Cut Pro 6 directly to Color for grading, finishing and final rendering with 32-bit float 4:4:4 image processing.
Last year, Apple acquired Silicon Color, the company responsible for producing FinalTouch color correction software.
Color is only available as part of Final Cut Studio 2, which is expected to ship in May for $1,300.
