Offering Color Grading (incl. 4K RED RAW) with APPLE COLOR and Blu-Ray Authoring

[Miklos Philips]

Hi all,

Color Grading once used to be thought of as the simple process of correcting errors from shooting. Now, more than ever, color grading is an essential part of the creative process. The difference in quality from camera originals to the finished project can be stunning.

The look, the feel you want...

Whether for the look, the feel, creating the mood or fixing film errors such as white balance or varying lighting conditions the color grading experience is where the picture comes together.

• Optimizing special effects
• Establish a look or mood
• Enhance or alter a scene
• Color continuity
• Color palette
• Visual atmosphere
• Manipulate the final image sharpness and grain

Save on Color Grading and mastering services — approx. 75% over post facility rates.

I use Apple COLOR and Final Cut Studio 2. I have used various color grading tools for the last 10 years. Coming from cinematography and photography I have become quite an expert at it, have a keen eye and an artistic flare for grading. I have graded commercials, narrative films, corporate videos and music videos.

Recently, I graded two HD feature films, a Music Video shot on RED, a 2K HD short film project shot on the SI-2K and a feature documentary (see credits below - IMDB link.)

I have a top-of-the-line system: a Mac Pro Quad Core and a calibrated Broadcast HD monitor. At the end of the day it’s extremely important that what you see is what you get. A lot of people don’t have properly calibrated HD monitors.

I can take RED footage edited with proxies and using various workflows I can access the original 4K camera files and output a 1080P (or other) ProRes or uncompressed master for you.

I also do Blu-Ray authoring and burning, including testing on a Sony Blu-Ray playback system.

PLease see samples and contact info here: http://colorist.miklosphilips.info
Company credits on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0246703

I can take all major credit cards.

I'm in Venice, CA (Los Angeles)

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[Matthew Rogers]

I'm just wondering how you can access the 4k raw file in Apple's Color?

Matthew

 

[Stephen Pruitt]

It looks to me, in looking at the reel, that quite a bit of selective focusing was done during the finish. . . is this correct? That is, the original was quite sharp edge-to-edge, but the graded image is quite soft at the edges.

Stephen

 

[jake blackstone]

It looks to me, in looking at the reel, that quite a bit of selective focusing was done during the finish. . . is this correct? That is, the original was quite sharp edge-to-edge, but the graded image is quite soft at the edges.

Stephen

Actually, I'm also curios as to how the original image has less of a picture area, than the graded one. Shouldn't it be the other way around? It seems, that the "original" is the blow up from the "graded" one, but then it's not an "original" by definition.