I have just returned from Sound City, Tokyo, Japan. What a great place, like most overseas trips I didn’t see very much of Tokyo but the people were very welcoming wherever I went.
So why was I there? To run a 3 day ICA Resolve training class organised by Heather Ozaki from Photron the Blackmagic dealer for Japan. The group was a mixture of Sound City staff plus some of Tokyo’s finest Freelance colorists, all very experienced DaVinci 2K users looking to move into the non-linear grading world. We had some great material to play with, 35mm film scans, RED r3ds, and Cannon 5D footage.
The RED camera has become very popular in Japan recently so we spent lots of time comparing grading the native r3d files, looking at how changing the gamma curve and color space effected our ability to grade the images. RED workflows for offline, conform then final grade made for some interesting Aussie-Japanese conversation.
Working with a translator for 3 days was very different for me, I tried to slow things down and just used the correct Colorist terms, hoping that nothing would get lost in translation.
“It’s great to be trained by a real Colorist”
Hiro Sugiyama
Senior Colorist
Sound City
Tokyo, Japan
