Sudip Shrestha color graded the world's first Arabic Soap Opera 'Al Meerath' aka Inheritance drama series

Sudip Shrestha color graded the world's first Arabic Soap Opera 'Al Meerath' aka Inheritance drama series.

Sudip Shrestha - color graded 250 episodes of Al meerath Season 2 - 2021 and working on next seasons.

Shot is - 3 set Sony Venice 4k cinema camera
Graded - Blackmagic Davinci Resolve
DOP - Fouad Sleiman
Colorist - Sudip Shrestha
MBC STUDIOS

The story of two Saudi families embroiled in a battle over inheritance has laid the foundations for the world's first Arabic soap opera.

Al-Meerath (Inheritance) will screen on MBC 1 from Sunday, March 1 2020 & Shahid VIP (Watch VIP) .

Al Meerath came as part of a strategic partnership between MBC Studios, twofour54 and Image Nation Abu Dhabi. A show about life in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the soap is a melodramatic saga that grapples with the country’s social, economic and cultural aspects of Saudi life and their evolution.

Four 23-minute episodes will air every week, from Sunday to Wednesday.

It tells the story of an old and deeply entrenched rivalry between two families (the Bahitanis and the Khawatnis). However, Romance comes into play as a young man and woman from the rival families fall in love. The story develops under many thrilling circumstances.

Download Baselight 5.0 student version

Avid vs. FCP vs. Premiere for editing likewise Davinci resolve vs Baselight vs assimilate scratch for color grading. Its your choice. Filmlight recently updated Baselight and sent 90 days trial license to use student version of Baselight.

Train to be a professional Baselight colourist with support from FilmLight

Baselight STUDENT is a comprehensive version of FilmLight’s Baselight colour grading software—with GPU rendering—that runs on any supported Mac platform.

The principle limitation is that the application is restricted to render out only h.264* movies or JPEG images. With no watermarking, this means that Baselight STUDENT can be used to create academic-year projects within the limitation of the delivery formats. Along with conform capability, colour space handling, format editing and the ability to render both image sequences and movie files, this also makes the application the ideal tool to learn how to start your career as a professional colourist assistant.

As Baselight STUDENT is specifically intended to help people learn how to work with Baselight professionally, the licence is limited to a 90-day training period; however this can be reviewed if necessary when your licence expires.

Key features

The student application is built from exactly the same software source as the full Baselight system. That means that it will always be up-to-date with the latest release. 
For a full list of Baselight functionality, please see the datasheets in the Document Library on our web site. Some of the highlights of Baselight STUDENT include:

• Support for control surfaces including Slate (but not Blackboard).

• Optional AJA SDI monitoring.

• 4:2:0 Y’CbCr cache allowing playback on lower-end machines.

• Rendering capability for h.264* movies or JPEG image sequences.

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DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel Review

DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel Review

MEDIACAST, DUBAI, UAE loaned me a Blackmagic Resolve Micro panel for three days for this review. I must thank them for the experience. 

Colorist - Sudip Shrestha (Pixelhouse Production - Dubai,UAE)

The Micro panel is a well-constructed metal console with precision trackballs, rings, knobs and buttons. Panel mimics the controls in the software so it is very handy to perform any kind of color grading tasks.

It features three high resolution trackballs and 12 precision machined control knobs for accessing all essential primary color correction tools. Above the center trackball are keys for switching between log and offset color correction, as well as a key to display DaVinci Resolve’s full screen viewer, which is great for use with laptops. Eighteen dedicated keys on the right side also give you access to the most commonly used grading features and playback controls.

Why do you need color control surface?

Any control surface, promises the user the ability to do the work of coloring without ever having to take his/ her eyes off of the image. Keyboard shortcuts and mouse will never let you simultaneously adjust color values in lift, gamma and gain so you need a dedicated hardware console for high end color grading tasks.
Most importantly, you need color control surface for SPEED, ACCURACY AND MULTITASKING.

DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel -  Pros

• Awesome user experience and well built quality
• Only for Davinci Resolve Colorists
• Portable on desk as well as on location
• Price

Cons

• Works only with Davinci Resolve.
• Few important keys are missing (copy/paste)
• Cheaper and multi software support option available like Tangent ripple and oxygentec pro panel.

DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel is perfect for independent editors and colorists that need a truly portable solution, great on set to create looks and evaluate color and lighting, ideal for quickly grading video in broadcast trucks, great for education and much more!