Some one started a talk about grey screen instead green. Last year a director call me to do this job not using green screen. He said post guys will prefer not to use green. They are working with difer

Hi Guys, I’ve been working with Super 16mm film a little bit recently and as someone who was not around whilst it was in high rotation I’ve had to learn a lot of the processes in preparation for these

Filmmaking is a team sport and communication is everything, yet departments within post tend to exist in “silos” with little effort spent or time permitted to understand the needs of others downstream

Monday: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Room N243 - April 8 (North Hall) The Open Effects Standard is widely used for visual effects (VFX) and video processing systems. OpenFX provides specifications to connect v

For those interested in learning more about virtual production for features and TV in an informal setting, check out this Birds of a Feather meeting at NAB: "Revolutionizing Filmmaking with Real-time

Save the date... NAB2019 Colour Day. Monday 8 April. Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel Leading colourists will present their individual journeys in colour, as well as the creative tips they have honed over

All, I was shown a camera comparative test earlier this week which included a RED Monster 8K, Canon C700, Sony Venice, Arri 65, and Panavision DXL2, all with Leica Thalia lenses, projected on a giant

I was at the ACES talk by Pablo Soriano at the BSC show this year and as I understand it you create your deliverables with the correct ODT for that display. Could it not work the other way and you hav

I have been doing webinars for a small group of around 350 pro colorists from around the world as a way to expand on the classes I teach. I thought that this might be interesting to you as it is a ver

some one bring the topic of grey screen. last year a director call me to shoot a green screen, but he said the post production guys asked to shoot on grey instead color. we didnt use any screen on tha

Hi all, I am experiencing great difficulty getting in touch with Sony regarding Sony Catalyst software. I have some billing issues and some technical issues. I submitted two tickets to their support p

I need help. I’m struggling. I can make an HDR DCP no problem, I can make an SDR DCP no problem. How on earth do I do a split screen of SDR and HDR? I want to show the same footage split screen, pleas

I’ve just started watching Sylvains presentation and don’t quite get why he’s changing colour space so much. Surely the idea of a colourspace is to stick to the one that works for your output device a

Hello and best of the season to all.. For the last few years I've run into productions asking me to shoot UHD 59.94P so they can sausage it into 29.97p, Broadcast Docs and such..and they are not looki

I really enjoyed being at these presentations so I thought I’d add the links now that they’re available online. Mike Nuget: https://vimeo.com/307267145 Sylvain Canuax: https://vimeo.com/307084542 chee

Hi all Somewhat off topic but I hope someone here had to deal with this before. We are building a small server room next to our new viewing room. We are mainly a rental facility but decide to have a p

Hi all, I have a job coming up (as director/DP) where I'm attempting to do some multiple pass motion control compositing, with dynamic lighting cues, on a budget that's lower than it should be. I'm ho

Hi I asked a little while ago about using projectors. Got some replies but little to go on then I remembered that Ray Donovan regularly uses a projection set for their car scenes. I find them quite co

Hi A couple of questions. !. I need to hire in a couple of projectors for back projected footage. The projectors have to be bright enough to get a reasonable stop for front lit subjects. This is not a

Hello friends! I'm new here so forgive me if I ask something stupid. ;) I am in the festival circuit and am looking for advise on compression for a 20 minute film shot in 4k. I am just back rom a Toro