Vegas has more tools (and better tools) than Avid MC for color work. The "three colors" display is called the RGB parade.

Thank you I'll have a look

My Avid versus Vegas color correction notes:
Vegas has more plug-ins/color tools. You can do things like masking + color correction, there are ways to do various creative color effects, and you can do intermediate compositing tasks in Vegas (e.g. if you do secondary color keying and you need to clean up the matte/key, there is a convoluted method in Vegas to do that).

The Avid CC workflow makes it very easy to copy+paste settings (slightly better than Vegas? but I don't use Avid). In Vegas, you have options: [a] you can save series of effects/FX as filter chains [b] you can drop FX presets onto multiple clips at once [c] copy a clip, and then paste event attributes (can be dangerous because it pastes ALL attributes)

In vegas, you really have to pay attention to your levels.

The Avid white balance makes a little more sense.

Color correction in Vegas tutorial:
http://www.glennchan.info/articles/vegas/color-correction/tutorial.htm

Exhibiting my ignorance, Glenn, is it required to calibrate a monitor that gets its signal from a DVI source, but is passed to a monitor via HDMI?

This same monitor (new) has a VGA port that gets its from a DVI>VGA source.

I'm confusing myself and would appreciate some demistyfing direction from you.

Grazie

You need to calibrate on the interface you're using. If your monitor is attached via HDMI, then you need to calibrate on HDMI.

Yes, there are definitely differences. Avid allows you to save your corrections to various buttons (or to a bin) so you can use them later on in the same project or other projects. That is quite nice. However Avid does not have secondary color correction. At least not like Vegas does.

Avid does have a 3-way color corrector and curves. And it has a few absolutely AWESOME tricks like naturalmatch that I am sure Vegas color correcters would die for. But Vegas' tools have more breadth.

Something simple like Colorista2 will run circles around both NLEs though. I wish it was available for Avid.

Peronne, my confusion stems from Glenn's comment in his tutorial which, granted, I may have misunderstood, that, "[i]Please not that digital interfaces (e.g. SDI, DVI, HDMI) do not require calibration of the hue and phase.[/I]" - but this was [I]solely [/I] (?) for hue and phase.

Thanks Peronne. Still confused mate.

Grazie

He's referring to the interface itself, nothing to do with the monitor.
Analog interfaces especially composite video can introduce phase errors which change the colors. None of this has anything to do with calibrating the monitor itself.

Bob.