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This is the first project to be shot with ColorGHear Spectrum. It was finished entirely in FCP-X.

details - 1 light, 1 bounce, exposure and grade achieved entirely in-camera - no post grading, only re-application of the LUTs used onboard the Atomos, and applied in FCP-X. With the exception of one tiny gamma adjustment in the color panel for one shot in the B&W footage, this is straight out of the camera, LUTs used in production applied to V-log footage, edit, FX, export --- done.

Spectrum is a revolution in Color and will be available for use on your projects this fall. No more rushing around trying to find a colorist to fix your project at the end. Spectrum solves all your problems before you ever roll cameras.

Vimeo version - better compression

I mentioned in the previz tutorials that once a year around x-mas Poser goes on sale for $50, and I'd alert you the next time it did - now is the time.

http://my.smithmicro.com/poser-11.html

@chauncy http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/15043/transphobia-the-movie/p1

@shian I thought that shot I showed you in the tunnel looked too flat so I re-shot it. A sniper with Parkinson's wasn't a great look either. I didn't use ColorGHear 'cause it's just a rough proxy edit grade, and I'm lazy. It's just filmconvert with some color and levels tweaks. Adobe camera raw shits on Resolve for debayering 5D MK3 raw files so I'm grading in AE for now. It wasn't until after I graded it that I thought to recalibrate my monitor, hence it looking like it should be more crushed. http://i.imgur.com/3ByvrfO.jpg My 8yr old Miss Kubrick doesn't like the graf; me neither. Thankfully I shot it on sticks, but I don't know if the smoke is going to be a problem when I try to get rid of it. I should'a just wiped the damn tag!

Yep

Not a colorist by any stretch, but it seems like there's only so much a colorist can do, anyway.

I mean, you can't add any rim lighting. I think you can add shadow on one side of the face much easier than taking it away. Can't change the costumes, sets, etc..

Colorists do some amazing things, but asking them to make up for boring, uninspiring lighting, crappy sets, bad framing, lack of production design is asking way too much, and frankly quite lazy from the production side.

It's sad how often people seem to think light is only useful for exposure, rather than creating a mood and enhancing the art/story.

"And The Oscar for Best Film with the least amount of light used goes to….."

Interesting article @shian. Thanks for posting. I find it interesting that people (producers and audience members) have higher tolerance/acceptance of mediocre cinematography in movies. I wonder if people watch so much YouTube video shot off phones, that they're basically really okay with anything visually.

You mean this

that “people want to work faster or show that they can use less light, but they don’t look for the proper light the scenes needs. That isn’t cinematography, that’s recording an image. ... I was never happy in any set to just see available light,”

Or what exactly?

I did. I could not achieve the same effect. I was looking for a knee rolloff to white in the highlights.

There is a luma vs saturation curve in resolve. And a desaturate highlights filter in fcp7. Can something similar be done in ae? Not just desaturate but a knee rolloff so all colors end.up as white and black.