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My PC Build For Video Editing, Compositing & Color Grading

By Adam Noyes 0 Comment July 16, 2019

This guide will help you build a very specific PC designed for 4K+ video editing, color grading, compositing and working with R3D, Arri Raw and other data-rich formats (EXR, DPX, Cineform 16bit), without breaking the bank. It will include pictures and step by step instructions. At roughly $2,677 USD this PC is comparable, and in some cases significantly more powerful than, the base model Mac Pro 2019 (8-core 16 thread), and it does it all for half the price.

Review: Avid Media Composer Symphony 2018 v.12

By Adam Noyes 0 Comment May 2, 2019

In February of 2018, we saw a seismic shift in the leadership at Avid. Chief executive officer Louis Hernandez Jr. was removed and subsequently replaced by Jeff Rosica. Once Rosica was installed, people who worried Avid was about to be liquidated to the highest bidder breathed a sigh of temporary relief. We wanted to see where the new action plan from Avid, specifically on where Media Composer and Symphony were going.

Making the grade in HDR

By Jim Bask 0 Comment August 8, 2018

With more dramas and films now delivering in HDR, IBC365 asks leading colourists to reveal all about the pros and cons of grading in the format.

Blackest Blacks: Ten Things to Know About Producing HDR

By Jim Bask 0 Comment June 23, 2017

Shake your viewers all night long with the best-looking high dynamic range video imaginable. For those about to color grade, we salute you. High dynamic range, or HDR, gives video producers an expanded range of colors and brightness to display their videos. From a standards perspective, it’s the journey from Rec. 709 video to Rec. 2020, as you can see in the excellent simulation shown in Figure 1. 

Firefly Cinema Announces New Version of its Digital Dailies and Color Grading Workflow Suite – FirePlay, FireDay, and FirePost

By Jim Bask 0 Comment January 18, 2017

Press Release PARIS, January 12, 2016 – Firefly Cinema, a developer of affordable color grading and dailies processing applications, today announced V6 of its comprehensive color grading software suite which includes: FirePlay (for playback), FireDay (for digital dailies) and FirePost (for color finishing). Used on hundreds of feature films (Planetarium, The History of Love, Belle and Sebastien), FireFly Cinema solutions provide an integrated and production-wide approach to managing color workflows on-set, through dailies and postproduction.

User Story: Firefly Cinema Enables On-Set to Edit Suite Color Workflow

By Jim Bask 0 Comment November 23, 2016

(Paris, France–November 14, 2016) Firefly Cinema, a developer of affordable color grading and dailies processing applications, today announced that its entire suite of solutions was used on Radu Mihaileanu’s latest feature film, A History of Love, to manage the digital cinema color workflow, from on-set dailies through to the finishing suite, ensuring a consistent color process throughout the production and post production of the movie.

Firefly, Color grading with French Tone

By Jim Bask 0 Comment November 17, 2016

FireFly is not just the name of a popular western space opera, it’s also the name of a series of tools for cinematographers. Used in films as the recent History of Love…