Managing the Amazing, Affecting Material for “Da 5 Bloods”
Colorist Stephen Nakamura details how he worked with Spike Lee and cinematographer Tom Sigel across multiple formats, aspect ratios and visual elements.
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Colorist Stephen Nakamura details how he worked with Spike Lee and cinematographer Tom Sigel across multiple formats, aspect ratios and visual elements.
“Only Spike will jump up and celebrate like the Knicks have scored when it’s a great edit.”
De-mystifying this ubiquitous term
There are benefits to an 8K production that an increasing number of projects are taking advantage of.
“Our industry is seeing rapid evolution as the need to develop content for cross-platform distribution has transformed both the creative process and post-production workflows.”
"Editing in the cloud provides the ability to be in any location and work on any machine and mimic on-premise workflows with fine grain...
Company 3 colorist Siggy Ferstl spent a whole year refining a specific look for the Disney+ period piece.
Content is already being shot, posted and displayed at 8K and many facets of the industry—acquisition, post, delivery—are gearing up
Enables remote viewing of color and VFX sessions
"When we started to blend the two it felt like the past and the present were in dialogue together, the way it feels like...
“Why has ‘color space’ become so prevalent on set and in our post pipelines?”
The Productions feature is specifically geared towards multi-editor projects working from shared storage
"We were all very excited about the idea that in this film, the audience is really going to pay attention to every sound in...
"The gamut of a camera is everything that the camera can see or everything that the camera can capture."
Universal Pictures commissioned animators to create stylized teasers for its upcoming Coen Brothers comedy Hail, Caesar! Each animation uses different techniques to set the tone...
“We've found is that the more detail you give to a viewer, the more their eyes like it.”
“The trial is a full working version and is not limited or watermarked in any way.”
The in-depth 400+-page PDF goes over everything from picture editing, audio work in Fairlight, creating special effects in Fusion, and—of course—color correction.
Understanding audio and video signals are encoded into digital files using codecs—shorthand for compression/decompression.
This “instant movie” was all about demonstrating technologies now available to moviemakers—including the use of cloud storage and playout—that make it possible to greatly...
"Parasite" editor Jinmo Yang talks intertwining the story of three different families, effectively conveying the film's twists, and maximizing the story's tension in the...
“The choice to make a period show was a way of writing a stylized version of the present.”
Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke crafted a distinctive look and feel for “The Lighthouse” that was achieved with a painstaking blend of old and new... so...
As Noah Baumbach’s longtime editor, Jennifer Lame started working on the Netflix feature well before principal photography, spending hours with the director breaking down...
“Good HDR starts with capture. Great HDR thinks HDR throughout the process.”
Colorist Factory is giving away two free LUTs (Bellart LUT and Blakehope LUT) that can be used to recreate the look of "Joker."
"The bottom line is that under the hood, all NLEs are still very much the same."
"This is not a vacation spot – this is the tundra of Alaska."
"Wes enjoys animation for what it is. He's not trying to hide the fact that these are made objects. He's celebrating the art form."
For total color correction newbies, colorist Casey Faris provides a good, quick, basic overview of how to begin using DaVinci Resolve 16.
"Whenever you set out to use a new workflow — not to say Premiere is new because it's been around a long time and...
Going into 2020, Apple is offering a better line-up of professional Mac products than it has in years.
Thanks to advances in networking and Ethernet technology, shared storage is accessible to any user.
"You don’t have a second opportunity to show the film to the director for the first time," he says. "It can be crushing."
Four editing applications dominate the professional market: Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer, and Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve. Established...
His first rule: Watch every frame of raw footage twice.
In this video, Steven Hullfish discusses the top ten lessons he's taken away from interviewing top film editors
DaVinci Resolve 16's new Cut page and the company's Editor Keyboard are both designed to optimize speed for creators who need to get content...
This strategic acquisition expands editorial, VFX and mobile dailies services
When color grading Paper Towns, director Jake Schreier wanted the visual feel of the coming-of-age film about a mysterious girl’s disappearance to walk the...
“The were very concerned with preserving the unique tone of the film in the grade,” colorist Sofie Borup explains.
The Netflix series Narcos takes an unflinching look at Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura) the formidable empire he ruled in the late...