In February the Visual Effects Society (VES) and American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) held a joint meeting to discuss Image Quality. At the time we wrote that it was clear that “DI and the workflow from image capture to release is not one workflow”. At the VES Production Summit Fred Chandler (Senior Vice President Post Production – Fox) made the point again saying he’s “been in the business 28 years and the color pipeline for every movie is like starting over”. It was with this in mind that we approached Brian Gaffney and Dan Lion from Technicolor Creative Bridge to have a conversation about color workflow. Join us for this podcast as we discuss what people should do to guarantee a smooth process from shoot through final DI. (Pictured is the Technicolor building at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood).
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Thanks Jeff, amazing podcast! I feel like I only understood half of what you three were talking about but it just makes me want to listen to it again and do some reading! It’s such a complex matter and I never thought about it that way. Just when I thought I had figured it all out I realize how little I know.
Also makes me wonder if RED will improve their work flow in respect to color management. Post-LUTS (like a film out LUT) for SDI and HDMI outputs would be a great feature, as well as being able to change looks live and from a remote station.
More info about the ASC CDL, which is discussed in the podcast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASC_CDL