Re: Colorgrading Round-Up

Hi Dennis,
An interesting round up. I am intrigued by the toolsets required for Colour Correction now days, it seems that colour correction is much more than that now as you now perform many more tasks in that room now and I feel the true art of grading is diminished by this.
Colour Correction used to be the manipulation of colour to capture the creative intent of a project, this led to some very good technology for accurately managing colour and produced individuals who were truly artists.

The traditional colour correctors developed the ability to manipulate colour to a fine art/science that is still not met by todays graphic based systems.

An example is the use of keys, originally you would use colour to pull a key, now you draw a shape and track it. in my view the colour key is more accurate, creative and way faster to achieve.

I also find the term "real time" to be an anomaly, real time can be defined in many ways, real time can be the ability to change an image in "stop" or the ability to play back an image at full speed, I always think that real time is the ability to apply all colour correction etc as it is playing and applied as it is playing.

I am pretty sure that most of the systems back ground render or simply have to render to apply changes to the full res image and play them on the fly.

Just my thoughts!

Adam