Colorbox License Colorfront

Colorfront’s TV Mode and Live Mode are now available in both FS-HDR and as a licensable option in ColorBox. TV Mode is an intuitive color processing engine aimed at broadcast workflows that contains built-in SDR, HLG, and PQ transforms.

When licensed, TV mode provides operators access to new Brightness, Highlight, Super Highlight, and Colorfulness tools that enable greater control over critical elements in color conversions. With this expanded toolset, get controlled corrections within the guardrails of Colorfront’s perceptual processing algorithm, which will maintain perceived color, hue, and saturation without hard clipping artifacts. TV Mode also includes Sony S-Log3 conversions as part of the license upgrade, which have proven advantageous in modern live production applications.

The same license also enables Colorfront Live Mode, which includes several camera Log formats beyond TV Mode, like the new ARRI LogC4, as well as the new SDR to Dolby Vision Preview Mode with simplified controls for highlights and contrast.

Colorfront Engine TV mode is geared for broadcast workflows or standard production workflows with simple display referred color conversions. It is similar to the Colorfront Engine Live mode but with a simplified set of color correction controls.

• SDR, HLG, PQ, and Sony S-Log3 transforms
• Highlight and roll-off management with Brightness, Highlight, and Super Highlight
• Colorfulness control for managing the Hunt Effect
• Roundtrip setting for ensuring a technical match during a round-trip process
• Adjusting RGB, and Master color controls for:
  • Lift, Gamma, and Gain
• Adjusting for camera correction with Exposure, Color Temp, and Tint

TV mode may be the right choice for you if you’re working in live television broadcast productions or in any standard productions that do not require camera log conversions beyond Sony S-Log3, you prefer video style color controls (e.g., Lift/Gamma/Gain), and a simplified set of color processing controls.

Colorfont Engine Live mode is designed primarily for broadcast style workflows, supporting a variety of color space formats, including camera log.

• SDR, HLG, PQ, and Sony, ARRI, RED, Panasonic, and Canon transforms
• HDR Log Look, SDR Softness, HDR Amount, Ambient Light Compensation, P3 Clamp
• Adjusting RGB, and Master color controls for:
  • Lift, Gamma, and Gain
• Adjusting for camera correction with Exposure, Color Temp, and Tint
• SDR Preview

Live mode may be the right choice for you if you’re working on broadcast workflows or standard production workflows that require camera log conversions and you prefer video style color controls (e.g. Lift/Gamma/Gain).