ColourSpace vs Hance

ColourSpace is display calibration and colour management software for professional film, post-production, broadcast, medical, Pro AV, and home cinema work. It profiles display performance and uses those measurements to generate calibration LUTs. Interactive volumetric 3D graphs help assess measured colour points and their errors; higher license levels support native LUT generation at 1024³ and beyond. The maker lists integrations with displays and video systems including ASUS ProArt, EIZO, BenQ, LG TVs, AJA ColorBox, Lumagen Radiance, and madVR Envy. ColourSpace is a native Windows x64 application. The maker says Mac use is possible through full Windows emulation and describes a native macOS version as in development. ColourSpace ZRO is free for manual calibration and verification, but has no LUT capability, volumetric graphs, or calibration reports. Standard licenses cover one PC, require internet access for activation and periodic checks, and can be moved through up to five deactivation and activation cycles. Pricing is listed from £125.

Hance is a single-binary command-line tool that applies film effects to video and image files in one pass. Its effects include color grading, halation, chromatic aberration, bloom, film grain, vignette, split toning, and camera shake. More than 40 built-in looks include Portra 400, Cinestill 800T, and Kodachrome 64. A browser editor previews effects in real time with WebGPU and saves custom looks as.hlook files. The maker says processing runs locally on the user’s GPU, keeping footage on the user’s disk. Hance runs on macOS and Linux; macOS is the primary beta target, while Linux is lightly tested. The CLI requires FFmpeg on the user’s PATH. The free plan costs nothing and includes H.264 and H.265 export, with one file processed at a time. ProRes export and batch processing require Pro, which is not yet available for purchase and has no announced price. Hance is beta software and is described as having been tested mainly on macOS by a single developer.