RED COLOR CORRECTION REEL 2011 :: NUMB ROBOT

[Alex Ferrari]

Hey Guys,

Check out our new 2011 RED Color Correction Reel: http://www.numbrobot.com/color.html

We always color in RED RAW, currently in Color but we are moving towards Davinci Resolve. Let me know your thoughts.

 

[Richard Foster]

Nice stuff, man. keep it up.

 

[Alex Ferrari]

Nice stuff, man. keep it up.

Thank you sir!

 

[Derek Van Gorder]

Most impressive was towards the end, where the feel of that woods scene changes from "murky, gray day" to "magical, wonderful forest!" Made me go "wow!"

Overall it's very nice, but I do feel like some of it suffered from crushing the blacks way too much, in particular the girl standing in front of the crashed plane in the snow. That could have been a really nice, filmic image, but it ended up looking very video-y because all detail in the blacks was lost.

I'm no colorist, though, just my two cents!

 

[Edmund Boyle]

Very impressive guys, great work. Great to see the magic appear and I know its not as easy as it seems.

 

[Eric Santiago]

Inspiring...

Inspiring...

I haven't felt inspiration since "Jurassic Park" (Animator SFX).
Seeing that reel gets my blood going towards color and then possibly doing my own shots
Thanks for that Alex and Numb Robot!

 

[Philipe Ratton]

Very nice work.

 

[Gabriele Turchi]

very nice work alex ...

but let me ask you this (and to other colorist as well ) :

what do you guys consider the ""before "" ?

I mean i guess you cheated a little bit showing the before as super very washed out Log image (which i assume you used as starting point ).... i think that the "before " should be the RED metadata out of the camera (so most of the time Redspace/Redspace or Redcolor/Redgamma )...

i am asking because i have t prepare my reel as well and i was wondering how "process the before ".... as i said , show the log, in my opinion is a bit of cheating ...


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[Greg M]

The before is the raw data, redcolor and red gamma are corrected in camera. you could say using the pre-set is "cheating"

 

[Gabriele Turchi]

The before is the raw data, redcolor and red gamma are corrected in camera. you could say using the pre-set is "cheating"

Saying that is Raw data does actually not mean anything ...

what i am talking about it all depends on the colorspace and gamma curve applied for those example/grading ...

even Linear light 1.0 is considered Raw Data ...Redlog ...redspace ...etc...(even we call it raw data because we work the R3D , but i guess the real raw is before the debayer....)
anyway ...

those before seems more super black lifted log to me and not a redgamma ... or you are right and alex got the most flat footage "ever" for every job...

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[Alex Ferrari]

The before is the raw data, redcolor and red gamma are corrected in camera. you could say using the pre-set is "cheating"

I would agree.

 

[Tom.Wong]

the before I would use is literally what I decided to work from. If i decided to work redlogfilm for that shot, that's my before.

if i just graded the redcolor, red gamma, that's my before.

etc. etc. I think that accurately shows what and where you started, and where you ended up.

These days working from rc2 and rg2 is great, only in extreme situations do i resort to redlogfilm. Great reel btw!

 

[jake blackstone]

I personally think the "before and after" for a colorist is a waste of time. It is totally meaningless, unlike a VFX shot breakdown. You could never know the what the before really is. It's one thing, if someone wants to show some interesting look or an innovative technique, but these endless"now it's washed out and now it's all saturated and bright" just bores me...

 

[Art Chong]

I think that this kind of reel holds more meaning to people who has at least a deeper-than-surface understanding of color correction. Sure, it can wow an agency, but I think it probably holds a lot more meaning for a director choosing a colorist for his project than the end-product client. A director or a DP probably knows what the image coming out of cameras tend to look like and can appreciate the work (and the creative choices) involved in getting it to the final product more.

In any case, regardless of the before/after discussion, the resulting work looks great! Made me go wow, anyway.