What is HDR? Why does it matter? Will it last? And how should we handle it? We’ve been hearing about ‘HDR’ since 2014, and it’s clearly an important and much debated development in the industry. Rather confusingly, HDR has come to mean two quite different things: The use of multiple exposures merged together to capture…
“180” is the first movie for director Jayendra, who has had a long successful career in high end commercials. His sponsors include Qube digital cinema solutions and Sathyam Cinemas, so it is no surprise that he insists on great image quality. What might be a surprise is that he chose to shoot with digital cameras.…
Los Angeles, August 22, 2011 – The International Colorist Academy (ICA) and THX Ltd. announced a partnership whereby ICA will offer classes on the use of LUTs for grading, display calibration, matching, and emulation. The inaugural class will be held October 31, 2011 at the ICA training center in Los Angeles. The courses will feature the THX…
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…
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…
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…
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…