Digitalfilms » Color Grading
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Oliver Peters illustrates the specifics of Color Grading in this part of his blog. He also shares tutorials, and reviews of various editing software like Da Vinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, and Premiere Pro. He is an independent video/film editor, colorist, post-production supervisor, tech journalist, and consultant. He has contributed to various industry trade publications and websites over the..
Digitalfilms » Color Grading
1w ago
Whether you’re a guitar nerd or just into rock ‘n roll history, learning what makes our music heroes tick is always entertaining. Music journalist and TV presenter Kylie Olsson started a YouTube channel during the pandemic lockdown, teaching herself how to play guitar and reaching out to famous guitarists that she knew. This became the ..read more
Digitalfilms » Color Grading
5M ago
Six years ago Blackmagic Design expanded its line of color correction control panels by adding the Micro and Mini panels to the full-size Resolve Advanced panel. At the time I reviewed the Mini panel. I typically split my duties between editing and color correction, so much of my grading work is done with a mouse ..read more
Digitalfilms » Color Grading
7M ago
OK, I know the title and AI-generated graphic are a bit cheeky, but this is an issue that plagues all video creation applications. But, it’s not actually a “bug” in spite of what people think. One of the most common editing forum questions that you run across is, “Why does my file look washed out ..read more
Digitalfilms » Color Grading
8M ago
There are myriads of audio and video plug-in developers on the market that make products for all the leading NLEs and DAWs. While many of these products work fine in DaVinci Resolve, few are specifically designed to work natively with Resolve. One exception is PixelTools, headed up by colorist Jason Bowdach. They make grading tools ..read more
Digitalfilms » Color Grading
1y ago
Last year Blackmagic Design announced a new line of network storage products along with Blackmagic Cloud. The storage products include Blackmagic Cloud Store (a high-performance RAID-5 array), Blackmagic Cloud Store Mini 8TB (a RAID-0 storage solution), and Blackmagic Cloud Pod (an appliance to turn any USB-C drive into network storage). I reviewed the Blackmagic Cloud ..read more
Digitalfilms » Color Grading
1y ago
2023 marks the 100th year of the NAB Convention, which started out as a radio gathering in New York City. This year you could add ribbons to your badges indicating the number of years that you’d attended – 5, 10, etc. My first NAB was 1979 in Dallas, so I proudly displayed the 25+ ribbon ..read more
Digitalfilms » Color Grading
1y ago
To answer that, let’s step back to film. Up until the 1970s dramatic television shows, feature films, and documentaries were shot and post-produced on film. The film lab would print positive copies (work print) of the raw negative footage. Then a team of film editors and assistants would handle the creative edit of the story ..read more
Digitalfilms » Color Grading
1y ago
The concept of offline and online editing goes back to the origins of film editing. Work print was cut by the film editor during the creative stage of the process and then original negative was conformed by the lab and married to the final mix for the release prints (with a few steps in between ..read more
Digitalfilms » Color Grading
1y ago
An artificial intelligence grading option for editors and colorists There are many low-cost software options for color correction and grading, but getting a stunning look is still down to the skill of a colorist. Why can’t modern artificial intelligence tools improve the color grading process? Colorist and color scientist Dado Valentic developed Colourlab Ai as ..read more
Digitalfilms » Color Grading
1y ago
DaVinci Resolve has been admired by users of other editing applications, because of the pace of Blackmagic Design’s development team. Many have considered a switch to Resolve. Since its announcement earlier this year, DaVinci Resolve fans and pros alike have been eagerly awaiting Resolve 18 to get out of public beta. It was recently released ..read more