

Avid offers the Artist Color panel, which also works with many apps, including Avid Media Composer, and costs about $1,300.

In terms of affordable external color correction panels, Tangent makes the Ripple, Wave and Element panel sets that range from $350 to over $3,300, but work with pretty much every color correction app I can think of (even Avid if you use the Baselight plug-in). expensive) color correction/editing bay I knew that I was on the right career path.Ĭolor correction can be done without using color correction panels, but think of it like typing with one hand (maybe even one finger) - sure it can be done, but you are definitely missing out on the creative benefit of fluidity and efficiency. I’ve talked about it before, but the first time I sat in a “real” (a.k.a. If you can, reach out to someone at a post house and sit at a real color correction console it might change your career path. If you’ve never used a color correction panel like the Tangent Element, Tangent Ripple, Avid Artist Color, or been fortunate enough to touch the super high-end FilmLight Blackboard 2, Blackmagic Advanced Panel or the Nucoda Precision Control Panel, then you don’t know what you are missing.
