Compare 3Prong ColorFiX

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Compared with Avid Color Correction

ColorFiX is not a complete replacement for the Avid Color Correction that is provided on newer Avid systems such as Xpress DV 3.5. However, it does provide much of the same control.

In addition, ColorFiX has the following features beyond Avid's Color Correction:

Selective (secondary) correction of up to 4 colors (including colors with little or no saturation), with feathered cropping and colorizing
Legalizing (safe colors)
Luma or Chroma keying of multiple colors
Keyframing for all parameters
Desaturate highlights and lowlights
Windows XP / Mac OS X not required

Compared with other AVX color correction plug-ins

Grid or X pattern is due to that plug-in operating in trial mode, and is not a defect.
Waveform and vectorscope images are from 3Prong's optional WaveScope plug-in.
Rest your pointer over any image to see the plug-in settings that produced it.

Proper Saturation Modeling Do you ever convert footage to black and white? Which looks the most accurate?
Originals	Digital Film Tools CS Color Correct	Boris BCC Color Correction	3Prong ColorFiX
	All hues produce the same level of gray!	All hues and saturations produce the same gray!	Contrast is preserved throughout the entire range of hue and saturation.
	Severe luma distortion and clipping	Luma levels of some colors are wrong by up to 20%.	Color channels are accurately mapped to luma according to ITU-R601 specs.

True Legalize Are your chroma excursions within composite broadcast delivery standards? Other plug-ins make "safe" RGB levels that are nothing but safe when they go to air!
Digital Film Tools CS Color Correct No safe color or legalize feature	Boris BCC Color Correction Note illegal chroma peaks in composite waveform despite Safe Color ON, low saturation at bottom is lost	3Prong ColorFiX True Legalize to your own NTSC or PAL specifications

Precise Selective Color Replacement Can you choose multiple colors? Can you adjust primary correction at the same time? Even with stacking or nesting any number of other plug-ins, when one plug-in passes its result to another it is impossible to recreate some ColorFiX effects. For example, you can't remove all color except for certain blues, and also alter the hue of those blues, as shown below.
Digital Film Tools CS Selective Color Correct -User chooses single plug-in with restricted features -No color picker available, preset only -No background adjustment possible -Note lack of precision in hue selection, poor selection at hue bounds of range	Boris BCC Correct Selected Color -User chooses single plug-in with restricted features -Only one color picker available -No background adjustment possible -Note poor hue shading in replaced color, poor blend with adjacent colorspace	3Prong ColorFiX -All features in a single plug-in -Four Select Old color pickers available (two used here) -Note smooth hue shading in replaced colors -Complete background adjustment possible at the same time; for example, desaturation