Color Grading is the finishing stage in which your film evolves from effective to beautiful. Your film is given a gloss, a final touch: unifying, highlighting and bringing out the best from the shoot and the edit. It sets your feature apart from the rest, whether it is fiction, non-fiction, promotional, or commercial. Color grading gives your work that final sense of style and emotion by drawing out the evocative moods and feelings of the power of color.

Grading example: Before and after

Not only can we add style and make technical corrections, we can also take care of needs like shot repositioning and reframing or blurring and masking, letting your editor focus on what he does best: editing. We can additionally suggest tools and workflows to help enable a more effective post-production session from capture to finish.

Grading: The process

We utilize a Davinci Resolve for Mac suite, always monitoring through our properly calibrated Panasonic plasma TV or Sony SXRD projector. We use X-rite probes and Light Illusion's Color Management System to make sure we're deadly accurate. We can provide you with any format file you wish but will always provide you with Cineform master files due to their quality retention and visually lossless nature.

Capture all starts with the image off the lens. That's why we utilize the Cinedeck Extreme. This [impressive] technology allows us to capture those images directly to uncompressed, Cineform, DnxHD, or ProRes. By doing so, we maintain ultimate flexibility in camera choice while not sacrificing quality and efficiency with a direct-to-edit workflow in Avid, Adobe, or Final Cut.

Monterrery, Mexico

The Cinedeck Extreme also helps us keep costs down by eliminating costly pre-edit transcoding and importing time. It also eliminates the need to use or rent additional gear such as laptops, on-camera monitors or direct-to-disk recorders. It delivers the additional value of keeping the production light and reducing its carbon footprint everywhere from the chaotic streets of Cairo to the rural farms of Bangladesh.

Cairo, Egypt

If you're interested in a demo or renting the Cinedeck Extreme, please don't hesitate to contact us with your project needs and we're happy to provide you with a consultation.