Hi folks Looking to bone up a bit on Unreal in a shooting environment using both LED walls and also greenscreen although I think LED walls seem to be a better solution in some ways. Habe a possible sh

Bonjour Does anyone have any experience trying to key off of a white wall lit by a narrow band green (or blue) LED source? From what I've always believed, you need to have a proper green surface (pain

Snobbery, are we far to fast to dismiss new technologies? I’ve been reading threads on FB about how awful AF is and how “real” colorists don’t use LUTs and and and... I use AF, I use AE, I use FilmCon

I wonder if anyone else is finding this. Resolve 17 suddenly got very slow, painfully so and that’s a problem as I’m using it for a live demo tonight. Yesterday I tried everything I want to do and as

Don’t miss this! 24 hours of great stuff, I’ll join halfway through because the start is past my bedtime 😊 https://coloristmixer.com/?fbclid=IwAR2a47WTNCT6vBYIUoCb9HjbkdORHa6DRdciwZ-0fGc0fixFtBV9Up4jH

Hi I was uploading a grid test the other day for some of our lenses, and it occured to me its such a waste of time for every crew to do it. I was wondering if we should have it made for all lenses onc

I posted recently about CineMatch and whilst it’s not the same as having an ace colourist to work with it’s better than most DP’s fumbling in the dark! There’s currently a 40% discount available. http

Has anyone by any chance got a BenQ SW2700PT? Im having some weird issues with the calibration settings. Michael. Michael Sanders: London based Cinematographer/Director of Photography. reel/credits/ki

CineMatch, which I have been beta testing for months, has now been release at https://www.cinematch.com/ I know that most of you will dismiss this but it really does work, maybe not as well as another

This week the CML weekly discussion will be on Monochrome. Shoot it monochrome or convert to monochrome in post? 9am in LA, New York at noon, 5pm in London, Amsterdam 6pm, Mumbai at 22:30pm, midnight

This is a public health warning... If you get an offer to upgrade from the iDisplay that a lot of us use to the new SpyderX bear in mind that the “Pro” version is anything but a professional piece of

PANASONIC M DECK INQUIRY - I am working on a big archival heavy doc project and some of our material is in an obscure tape format called Panasonic M (which came out before MII) and we are trying to fi

CML Web Discussion Wednesday 23rd September 9am LA, Noon NY, 5pm LON, 6pm AMS, 9:30PM BOM, 11pm BKK Colorists and Cinematographers, perhaps the most important relationship a Cinematographer can have i

CML Web Discussion Wednesday 23rd September 9am LA, Noon NY, 5pm LON, 6pm AMS, 9:30PM BOM, 11pm BKK Colorists and Cinematographers, perhaps the most important relationship a Cinematographer can have i

Hi I have been asked a question today and I want to check my answer. This particular DP wants to shoot 4K on a Sony Venice. End format is an uhd streaming service. So shooting with 2.0x anamorphic len

Hello. I have a recent enquiry into shooting a presentation. One of the references given is an Apple Keynote type presentation. Does anyone have an idea how they are shot? With a speaker in front, wha

Good morning CML, I have a project where we're shooting live action scenes that will have animated 2D characters added in post. Several of the scenes involve seeing animated action on the screen of a

A big thank you to everyone. Very interesting answers. As we still have a good 10 days before shooting, we decided to test a few this coming week from various upload locations. Cheers, Manny Emmanuel

Greetings, What is currently a good and cost-effective way for transferring large files ( circa 100GB/200GB) per day. A European solution would be more practical, as based in Germany. Thanks beforehan

Dear VFX gurus. So I’ve been playing with the C300-3 and wanted to put RAW lite to the test. To that end I shot a chromakey with the C300mk3 in RAW, the FX9 in XAVC300 and F55 is class 480 and 300. I