Euphonix's MC Color is a color grading surface that offers unmatched control and integration with Apple’s Color 1.5. The slim-line MC Color attaches to the Mac via Ethernet and features high-resolution optical trackballs, track wheels, displays, encoders and a host of programmable keys to speed up and enhance the Apple Color workflow. MC Color’s compact design is portable enough for on-set grading, and it can be combined with other Euphonix media controllers to build a larger, integrated video editing control surface. MC Color debuts at IBC and will be available this fall for $1,499.

Unlike generic color grading surfaces, MC Color has been specifically designed for Apple Color, offering an ergonomic design and a host of features optimized for the Apple Color workflow. MC Color features EuCon, a high-speed Ethernet control protocol developed by Euphonix that Apple has natively integrated into the new Final Cut Studio, including Color 1.5. EuCon is a highly intelligent protocol, and MC Color is constantly aware of in which room of Color the user is working, automatically updating MC Color’s controls and displays, including the nine programmable soft keys, to present the parameters specific to the current room.

Three high-resolution optical trackballs and weighted track wheels offer tactile feedback, and the center trackball and keys can be toggled on the fly to work as a mouse so that the colorist’s hands never have to leave the control surface during grading.

Six touch-sensitive encoders provide precise control over grading parameters and enable quick navigation of Color’s eight-room interface and Secondaries, while the high-resolution OLED displays give detailed feedback of all adjustments.

Finally, eight dedicated buttons enable quick copying to and pasting grades from Color Memory Banks 1-4 to streamline the grading process. From its ergonomic slim-line design and powerful features to deep integration and plug-and-play operation, MC Color offers Apple Color users a professional grading surface at an unbeatable price.

MC Color features:

• Three high-resolution, optical trackballs for modifying color values, vignettes, and pan and scan—center trackball also functions as a mouse cursor
• Three high-resolution, optical track wheels for controlling contrast sliders, vignettes and pan and scan
• Nine programmable soft keys that automatically update their function for each room in Color
• Six touch-sensitive rotary encoders for adjusting Primary In, Primary Out, Secondaries, and Geometry parameters, as well as navigation between rooms
• Six high-resolution OLED displays show parameter names and values
• Comprehensive transport and navigation controls
• Deep, plug-and-play integration with Apple Color

Other products in Euphonix's Artist Series Video Solutions:

MC Mix
With its eight faders and knobs, MC Mix allows users to quickly adjust audio levels and pans in Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro, offering simultaneous, high-resolution control over multiple audio tracks that would be impossible to achieve with a mouse.

MC Control
Like MC Mix, MC Control features faders and knobs to control audio levels and pans, but it also features a touchscreen that lets users trigger keystroke commands and macros directly from the surface. Although MC Control ships with a comprehensive set of soft keys for both Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro, users can program this touchscreen to suit their particular way of working.

MC Transport
Features an ultra-high-resolution jog wheel, spring-loaded shuttle ring and a host of transport controls and soft keys, making one-handed navigation and editing of your project a breeze. MC Transport can be used on its own or with any combination of MC Control and MC Mix units.