Re: No Country For Old Men - Walt and Everyone

[walter biscardi] "Could that film be finished in Color? Absolutely. "

I agree with Walter that the film could have been finished in Color and with the right Colorist, it would have had the same creative impact, but...

Could that film be finished in Color without making sacrifices compared to the feature set of other high end tools. I'd say absolutely not. I think the biggest sacrifice would be time. Color isn't geared for large finishing houses like Lustre and other tools are. It doesn't have the huge expensive hardware infrastructure like network rendering and assistant stations. Nor can it import custom masks from other compositing programs.

Talking business, I don't see any reason why companies like EFILM should adopt Color. Color isn't the best out there. These companies get paid the big bucks because they can give the best quality that technology can give at that time.

If it's even going to be a consideration, Color needs to take some more steps in the right direction.

So, Color could have been used, but why other to say that they did it. There's really no advantage when they have that sort of money to spend.

-Russ




Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT