On-Set Colour Grading

Hi, I’m a finishing Colourist by trade and recently had the opportunity to work as an on-set Colourist. It’s turned out to be very interesting to learn the technology and see what the crews have to go through. I just finished a 3 week shoot for a Steven Seagal film in Vancouver Canada. We shot…

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Los Angeles Courses Completed

We had a great week of courses in Burbank, Los Angeles and would like to thank Keith and David at Roush Media for being such excellent hosts! The Introduction Day and Popular Looks are new classes, but the feedback was excellent and I will be introducing them to other locations. Colorists from Italy, UK, Mexico,…

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London Colorist Strategies

The London class was held from May 10th to May 12th 2010 in the Digital Vision training room in Wardour Street, which is a short walk from most of the major facilities in town. Nine colorists from diverse backgrounds attended, some from London, and some from Norway, Finland, Poland and Turkey. Between us we had…

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Grading “The Genius of Beauty”

“The Genius of Beauty” A DI film grade through the eyes of a freelance Colorist I met film producer Ravi Vedant, at Singapore’s Broadcast Asia show in June 2009. I was demoing the Resolve for Media Village the DaVinci distributor. Ravi and I sat and discussed RED footage, workflows and the looks that could be…

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Thoughts After NAB 2010

A very memorable show, not least because of the volcanic interruption that has kept many of us from returning home! I only managed a few after hours demos, so was pleased to read Lornes blog. The show was big. Not at its biggest but 88,044 up from 82,650 last year. And we all found it…

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Resolve $995

I have been asked the same question a lot over the past week since the Resolve on Mac was announced…. “Where can I get training?” Well the ICA is happy to be partnering with BMD to run training classes. No details as yet but it is expected the classes will be similar to the Media…

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Lorne’s Post From NAB

Greetings from NAB day 3. My legs are sore from all the walking but have covered all the halls once. There’s lots to see on my second time through. Just some of the hits I’ve seen are our man Warren demoing the Resolve for MAC and selling for $995US. Awesome color tool at an amazing…

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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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