35mm Film out with custom 3DLUT's/Apple Color and plenty of consulting from Evangelos

[Ido Karilla]

Hello to all fellow Reduser,

I have established a little studio dedicated to color grading of RED footage for filmout. Being located in Israel I am constrained to the low budget Israeli film industry so I went with the FCP - REDCINE - COLOR workflow. At first things where very confusing, choosing a display, profiling it, creating LUT's, color management in Redcine etc'. Honestly I felt lost. It all changed after I stumbled upon a thread in Reduser forum (http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=11120&page=7 ). I contacted Evangelos Achillopoulos and since I have a supporting mentor that guides me through all the procedures and supports me with all the aspects of the workflow. Evangelos suggested that i will by a certain monitor that costs roughly 800$ and a probe that costs around 1600$ with this tools we established a relation that allowed us (within 5 months) to calibrate my studio to his laboratory services with a great certitude.
Yesterday we finally saw a theater projection of the 35mm print made from a sequence ( taken from the first Israeli feature film shot on the Redone build 15, 4k 16:9 24 fps) I sent him to print. IT WAS EXACTLY WHAT WE SAW ON MY GRAIDING MONITOR!!!!
After the projection all involved (DP, producer, director, editor and other people of interest) we all went to my studio and watched the sequence again on the monitor. IT WAS EXACTLY WHAT WE SAW ON THE PROJECTION!!!!
Now that I have confidence with my monitor and workflow we are about to grade the first Red Israeli film "5 hours from Paris" directed by Leon Podovsky, DP - Giora Bejach produced by Haim Mekelberg - 2Team production.

P.S

I really advice any one that needs guidness on this matters to contact Evangelos Achilopoulos and establish a relationship that will clear your workflow doubts and give you confidence that what you are aiming is achievable.


Ido Karilla.
Edit Studios Tel- Aviv, Israel

 

[Snow R. Shai]

Great News

Great News

I am extremely happy to hear the good news.
Great to know all the hard work on the RED studio, calibrations and efforts are victorious. Nailing down the DI workflow is not a simple task.
Working at Edit House with Ido and his support has been a pleasure.
Looking forward to seeing the movie.
Congratulations!

 

[Benjamin Rowland]

What tools did you use?

 

[Evangelos Achillopoulos]

Thanks Ido...

Thanks Ido...

Rowland, Ido used Apple FCS 2, Apple Color, Crimson, Automatic-Duck, gluetools and my custom LUT's for his Sony FW900 CRT monitor, probe for calibration was eye one pro from X-Rite and profiling using Cineprofiler from Cinespace that I provided (for free!) to him just to profile his monitor...

We charge an one-off consulting fee of 1500euros and then you pay only the film recording for 162 euros/minute (237$/minute 1 euro = 1,45$) on Kodak 5201 50D camera negative and Lasergraphics CRT film recorder (what Ido did) or 285 euros/minute (413$/minute 1 euro = 1,45$) on Kodak 2242 internegative on ARRIlaser Laser filmrecorder. There is no other charge except the first fee that is paid when starting the service, when your first test print is done then you can just ask for a new LUT on every film that you print and you just paying the minute charge for the running length of the printed film... The one-off consulting fee is for the know how and consulting thats being transfered to you for the years to come... Our real profit come only from the printing of your films.

All the LUT's are free of charge, all the consulting is free, you have my mobile number, SMS, email, skype and I act as your remote DI Consultant 18hours/7days, I transfer all the know how needed to do accurate display profiles setup, your system and solve problem as they appear.

The process starts with the one off consulting fee along with a full test cycle that involves a one minute film print test. After that you can start Color Grading your movies and have all the support needed to do it...

From the typical MacPro what extra needed is: just a probe and a good display device that all... In the Ido case, the total extra cost was 2400$ only...

So no more 500$ per hour to do a proper Color Grading for your indy feature... no extra hidden charges in "data management"... you pay just the filmrecording on the top of the line machines like ArriLaser/Lasergraphics, on the best stocks Kodak Vision2 5201 and Vision 2242, and develop your films in a Kodak Imagecare compliant Lab! we can handle also the sound and the print copies...

Other platforms are supported only for custom LUT's and color management i.e. Scratch, Nucoda, iQ, SpeedGrade etc.

If any of you guys want to do what Ido did, he can contact me at lakis@motionfx.gr or PM me...

 

[Benjamin Rowland]

Thanks for the info.

 

[Nikolai Pigarev]

This is some really good news! Am a bit sick of hearing that the only way to do it right is spend a million of filmlight