Sep
Yesterday FilmLight announced the long-awaited release of Baselight for Avid, one of the products in its Baselight Editions line, which also includes versions for Final Cut Pro and Nuke.
Baselight for Avid is the result of a joint development between the two companies, and represents the availability of one of the most powerful color correction tools within one of the most widely used editing systems in the audiovisual industry.
Color decisions made in Baselight for Avid can be exchanged between Baselight “edits” and vice versa, so a complete, seamless workflow can be maintained between editing and color correction. In addition, it incorporates a GPU that delivers high real-time performance.
Main characteristics
– Multilayer color correction.
– The adjustments are applied directly on the Avid timeline planes.
– Truelight system color management.
– Possibility to export or import corrections to any other Baselight system via AAF or BLG EXR files.
– There are multiple ways to make adjustments, including lift-gamma-gain controls and RGB or HSL curves.
– Automatic tracking based on one or two points, or on the new “are-based tracker”.
– Secondary correction through Bezier, luma or chroma keys, or a combination of them.
– Secondary corrections can be made inside and/or outside the layers, allowing corrections and effects to be applied on either side.
– Included filters, such as Blur or Sharpen, can be applied to any layer.
– Keyframes can be added to all controls.
In this link you have a presentation of Baselight for Avid made during this year’s NAB.
It is currently only available for Mac, for $995, for both Media Composer and Symphony. A Windows version is currently under development and is scheduled for release in the last quarter of 2012.
You can buy it or download the trial from here.
