30 Episode Drama Series - color graded by Sudip Shrestha-Pixelhouse Productions, UAE.
Latifa and Sharifa twins live in two different worlds: Latifa Al Thariyya goes beyond all limits to achieve her desire to have children, while Sharifa is extremely poor.
Shot in arri alexa
Colorist - Sudip Shrestha
Duration - 30 Episodes. Each episode 45 mins
Project Duration for color - 2 working weeks.
Pixelhouse Productions
Updating oneself is always an on going process. Everyday we face new challenges and updates in every faculty. Online course is a key to unlock and discover new updates. As a colorist, I try my best to study and update my faculty and participate in all sorts of forums.
After 1 year of paid subscription of MZED I have found it very helpful to novice and expert colorist and highly recommend its subscription for every filmmakers.
MZed Pro is a subscription membership that gives you unlimited streaming access to more than 160 hours of MZed's critically acclaimed catalogue of education, including filmmaking courses from Philip Bloom, Shane Hurlbut ASC, Vincent Laforet, Alex Buono and many more.
Outstanding Color Grading – Theatrical Feature
First Man
Natasha Leonnet // EFILM
Roma
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor
Green Book
Walter Volpatto // FotoKem
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Tom Poole // Company 3
Us
Michael Hatzer // Technicolor
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Natasha Leonnet // EFILM
Outstanding Color Grading – Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature
The Handmaid’s Tale – Liars
Bill Ferwerda // Deluxe Toronto
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – Vote for Kennedy, Vote for Kennedy
Steven Bodner // Light Iron
Game of Thrones – Winterfell
Joe Finley // Sim, Los Angeles
I Am the Night – Pilot
Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3
Gotham – Legend of the Dark Knight: The Trial of Jim Gordon
Paul Westerbeck // Picture Shop
The Man in the High Castle – Jahr Null
Roy Vasich // Technicolor
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
Zara – Woman Campaign Spring Summer 2019
Tim Masick // Company 3
Tiffany & Co. – Believe in Dreams: A Tiffany Holiday
James Tillett // Moving Picture Company
Hennessy X.O. – The Seven Worlds
Stephen Nakamura // Company 3
Palms Casino – Unstatus Quo
Ricky Gausis // Moving Picture Company
Audi – Cashew
Tom Poole // Company 3
The Interoperable Master Format (IMF) is a family of standards for implementation of CMW. Published by SMPTE, the ST 2067 family defines methods for interchange of a wide variety of audiovisual content, including all common television and cinema formats. The promise of IMF is reliable CMW, assembled from off-the-shelf components and local requirements.
If you have IMF Delivery for Netflix please contact us.
“DeOldify is a Self-Attention Generative Adversarial Network-based machine learning system that colorizes and restores old images and video . It’s only in the early stages but it’s already producing really impressive results.”
I recently discovered #deoldify, an AI-trained algorithm that colorizes old photos. This is not photo re-touching, but instead a computer that was trained to colorize black & white photos based on what colors it “thinks” things are. I was surprised by the result it produced.
source - github/deoldify
Try yourself to colorise your old memories from github - deoldify
HDR is considered an important new technological step in image display since it provides an immediately visible clear improvement in image quality, even to the untrained eye and independently of image resolution, screen size or viewing distance. In addition, the increase in data rate for an HDR signal is minimal, thus creating great visual impact for small increase in cost.
Dolby has played a key role in the development of HDR for both commercial cinema and home theatre applications. The most significant advantage of Dolby Vision HDR is the addition of dynamic metadata to the core HDR image data.
This metadata carries scene-by-scene instructions that a Dolby Vision-capable display can use to make sure it portrays the content as accurately as possible. Dolby Vision-capable TVs combine the scene-by-scene information received from the source with an awareness of their own capabilities in terms of brightness, contrast and color performance.
The minimum specification for Dolby Vision mastering requires the use of reference monitors with a contrast ratio of 200,000:1, peak brightness of 1000 nits, color range ‘approaching’ the Rec 2020 standard, and support for the SMPTE ST-2084 HDR format.
Netflix, Amazon Prime Video,Vudu, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, Universal and Warner Bros - have all released Dolby Vision contents.
Note - It’s not mandatory for a content creator to deliver both HDR10 and Dolby Vision.
DOLBY VISION MASTERING IN UAE
For more information & services on dolby vision mastering in UAE contact - www.pixelhouse.ae
A DIT (Digital Imaging Technician) is responsible for assisting the DP by controlling image quality, troubleshooting, on-set color correction, and managing production workflow.
ON SET DIT
Real time 8k workflow, HDR & 360 VR monitoring system.
Key Responsibilities
Managing media offloads
Building LUTs with the DoP for the different scenes
Applying those LUTs to transcoded ProRes footage for the offline edit
Creating 720p dailies to be placed in DropBox for the above-the-line team (or “adults” as we sometimes call them) to follow along with the production.
DIT cart is the basis for every digital imaging technician.
Basic DIT kit
www.pixelhouse.ae
The Sony A7s was definitely one of the hottest cameras from 2014, and as it's been in use for several years now, As a colourist, I have had plenty of opportunity to discover how to obtain the best possible image from it.
When shooting in HD internally, there is a growing consensus among A7s users that it's best practice to expose to the right +2 S (ETTR) (that is, exposure should be compensated brighter without clipping highlights).
Here, the video illustrates the effectiveness of exposing to the right two stops and overexposing a shot and making some quick adjustments in a color grading and achieving the best results.
Before/After color grading
Pixel House is based in Dubai and started operations in 2013 with a main focus on producing TV shows and video production projects.
For more information please visit : pixelhouse.ae
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.
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.
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.
