Topic Tag: advanced
💡ACES
ACES is a standard designed to future proof this business of color management. https://www.lightillusion.com/aces_overview.html ACES encompasses an area larger than the CIE diagram. Its primaries are imaginary, colors we can’t see. But that future-proofs it. ACES
💡🎬 Log
Now that you understand LUTs and gamma, let’s talk about log. First of all, log is a very exciting thing for several reasons. It’s an efficient way to capture a lot of high quality detail and maintain a huge amount of post production flexibility. It is not designed as a visual aesthetic but rather a …
💡🎬 Export for Color & Conform
I spend a lot of time preparing projects from editorial for delivery to sound editors and colorists. Getting a project from one NLE to another audio or color application is varying degrees of painful. No applications have identical features or a single rock-solid format for translating between them. However, remember that it’s much easier for …
💡🎬 Multi-Cam Sync
If you’ve shot multiple cameras on the same action, you’ll want to get that lined up. Resolve’s Cut Page Avid is still important to learn if you want to assistant edit in Hollywood, but after seeing the simplicity of Resolve’s cut page these options feel unnecessarily complex for many projects. Pick the right tool for …
💡🎬 📷 Other Useful Software
Daisy Disk Daisy Disk is a great tool for a quick look at what’s taking up space on your hard drive visually. Media Info This is a great free and cross-platform tool for reading video metadata. FFMPEG FFMPEG is an excellent resource for a non-GUI approach to modifying video files. Terminal Mac OS’ command line …
💡🎬 Displays, Monitors, Projectors, Setup & CDL
Display Setup & Look Consistency Creatives won’t want to see a flat looking image designed to capture high amounts of detail at the expense of looking pretty. For that reason a DIT will perform a base color adjustment so that what everyone sees looks useful. There’s much more info in the color section on this, …
💡🎬 MAM (Media Asset Management) & Archive
Managing digital assets is a huge part of working with digital media at any scale. There are several reasons it’s important to use dedicated software to keep track of your media: Instant search-ability is key and good cataloging software in conjunction with robust metadata makes that possible. The media you’re searching for may be offline, …
💡🎬 Shared Storage & Collaboration
Multiple people will need access to the data at once in a post facility. They’ll need to do so in a way that prevents “branching” or multiple, separate copies of data that will need to later be reconciled. They’ll need it quickly and reliably. Making this all happen isn’t easy or cheap. Shared Storage with …
💡🎬HDR
Since you should now understand the concept of gamma from previous sections, let’s dive into some alternate EOTFs. HDR can mean several different things: A method of capturing a high contrast scene with multiple photographs then “tone mapping” them all into a visible range, sometimes with extreme stylistic consequences. A method of capturing a high …