In case you’re wondering where I’ve been all summer, check out this teaser. At Brain Farm, we’re all buried in post getting this movie done. I did the color correction on this teaser. Look for The Art of FLIGHT on DVD, Blu-Ray and iTunes Extras download on Sept 8th. For you post production geeks, the […]
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This post is not technical. This is very simple. What really is the difference in quality between all the different flavors of ProRes? Currently there’s Proxy, LT, SQ, HQ and 4444. Proxy, LT, SQ and HQ are all 4:2:2 at 10bit, but at very different bitrates. I saw a comment by Shane Ross on his blog […]
Read MoreColor’s acting up on me again. I went to Creative Cow to see if there was a solution to my dilemma. As usual, someone has a workaround because there’s a bug that Apple can’t seem to squash. In this case, “Send to Final Cut Pro” is resulting in a timeline with NONE of my grades […]
Read MoreI’ve been color correcting for a few years, and using Apple Color since it was added to Final Cut Studio. Apple really has democratized color correction by taking a $25,000 software package and bundling it with Final Cut Studio for no extra cost. But one of the greatest things about the “big iron” systems though […]
Read MoreAs I mentioned in a previous post, a few months ago I color corrected a documentary film called “Wings of Thunder.” There were a few shots that had scratches and emulsion dust on the negative. I used an After Effects plug-in from Red Giant called Film Fix. The video below is the original test I […]
Read MoreI’ve been color correcting episodes of Destination Extreme for Wink Inc Productions, which will air on National Geographic in a few weeks. I just heard that the first 4 shows passed QC, which is awesome and takes a bit of the pressure off on the remaining episodes. For this series, I’m using Apple Color almost […]
Read MoreA month ago, I color corrected a Super 16mm film for Jeff Hogan Films called “Wings of Thunder” for the Bear River Wildlife Refuge in Utah. It was very cool to be working on a film project again. The source tapes were HDCAM SR 422, which made the color correction much easier. It took quite […]
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