Post IBC

IBC was a really great show this year. I was demonstrating the Arri Look Creator with Resolve on the Arri booth. We had allot of people on the booth and everything went great. The big news at the show was of course Iridas being acquired by Adobe. This probably means that SpeedGrade will most likely…

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Why We Need LUTs (and what they are)

When all the DI (Digital Intermediate) stuff started about ten years ago, one of the most difficult things to achieve technically was to match the colour of the interactive display with the output of the lab. At that time, we started to hear about LUTs: Lookup Tables. Since then, LUTs have been implemented pretty much…

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Looking Good or Looking Right? Part 1: The Monitor

Hi all! Couple of days from NAB, iPad just went out and from what I read it looks pretty good. So I think it’s the right time to start a pretty philosophical subject about the difference between looking good and looking right! As an artist, one of the most important things is to be sure…

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IDIFF, Paris, Jan 2010: Future of the Labs

A couple weeks back in Paris there was IDIFF, which is the local digital cinema show. A couple of conferences, about new cameras, one from Framestore about the joys of Avatar post, but the one that was the most interesting to me was the one about the future of the labs. It was driven by…

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