Avid announces new software at IBC that will be able to use Artist Color

It seems that the Avid Artist Color (formerly Euphonix) color correction controller is catching on as a standard control surface. Avid announced at the last IBC the collaboration with new companies to use the controller with their color grading software and dailies on set.

Perhaps the most innovative collaboration is the one with Filmlight for the use of Artist Color with Baselight, especially since it is one of the most expensive tools on the market. It seems that the English have seen the wolf’s ears and have realized that the color correction market is no longer so elitist. By the way, I would have paid to see the face of the developers of the Baselight plugin on FCP 7 on the day of the presentation of FCP X at Nab.

Colorfront also allows its use for its dailies tool and joins the likes of Blackmagic for use with DaVinci Resolve, Assimilate for Scractch, Image Systems with Nucoda Fuse, Autodesk and its Smoke finishing tool on Mac and the recently discontinued but still useful Apple Color among others.

It is paradoxical that this controller does not work with any of Avid’s own software (DS, Symphony or MC) even if it is a product purchased from another company. However, at the presentation of the latest versions in Madrid Avid announced that they will support the Artist Color in the future, maybe in the next versions 6, which already have to be 64b? Let’s hope so!