Tag Archives: Baselight

Series six graded for HDR and 4K Ultra HD at Technicolor PostWorks The sixth and final Emmy award winning series of The Americans, a period spy thriller set in the 1980s during the Cold War, was recently finished in HDR and 4K Ultra HD at Technicolor PostWorks in New York. Since series two, the look of the finished series has ...

New tools designed to meet the real needs of creative colourists   [London, UK — 07 September, 2018]: FilmLight is to demonstrate remarkably powerful new functionality for its colour grading and management platform Baselight at IBC2018 (Amsterdam, 14–18 September, stand 7.B26). The latest software will be shown on Baselight grading stations, and also implemented across FilmLight’s product range, which includes ...

Creatives can take advantage of unique workflows across Avid, NUKE and Flame with advanced feature set   [London, UK — 30 August 2018]: At IBC, FilmLight will be showing the new features of Baselight v5 for Avid and NUKE, along with BLG for Flame, the latest product in the Baselight Editions range. The popular plugins bring sophisticated colour control and ...

Free masterclass unites diverse finishing artists to share knowledge and demonstrate real-world projects London, UK — 7 August, 2018: FilmLight is to stage one of its hugely popular colour tour masterclasses at IBC2018 (RAI Amsterdam) on Sunday 16 September. This intensive day of live presentations and practical discussions is designed to guide colourists, DoPs and the wider production and post ...

Deluxe finishes ‘Genius: Picasso’ for National Geographic   London, UK — 05 July 2018: The second series of National Geographic’s popular series Genius focuses on the extraordinary life of painter Pablo Picasso. Colourist Pankaj Bajpai at Encore in Hollywood was charged with creating the look that evoked the time and place as well as the art. Bajpai was the colourist ...

New plugin brings integrated creative colour to the Autodesk visual FX application, saves time for finishing workflows At NAB2018, FilmLight is launching BLG for Flame as the latest product in the popular Baselight Editions range. BLG for Flame is a Linux-only plugin for Autodesk Flame that applies a Baselight grade automatically, either from Baselight Linked Grade (BLG) files or directly ...

Global series of masterclasses on HDR, colour workflows, and new grading and delivery tools To help colourists, DoPs and the wider production and post industry understand the opportunities and challenges that HDR and new delivery formats bring, FilmLight is taking intensive and specialist masterclasses on a world tour. Dates are already set for London (15 May), Mumbai (16 May), Hollywood ...

Gritty Ukrainian movie benefits from flexible Baselight pipeline, supporting fast delivery to enable premiere at Cannes Film Festival Donbass, a new movie by Ukrainian writer/director Sergei Loznitsa, is to be shown as a work-in-progress version at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Post-production was to a tight timescale – shooting only wrapped in March – and Bucharest facility Digital Cube used ...

Powerful FLUX Store boosts Baselight productivity in Tokyo facility LONDON — 17 October 2017: Top Tokyo post house L’espace Vision is marking its 30th anniversary by adding a powerful grading suite from FilmLight. As well as a Baselight TWO workstation, with the new version 5.0 software, it is adding the 160TB FLUX Store post-production data server, designed to stream media ...

LONDON — 12 June 2017: When you book a commercial into the Super Bowl coverage, you know that the creative and technical quality is going to be under real scrutiny. So for Nissan’s Return of the Snowman spot, VFX specialists The Embassy in Vancouver banded together with post house Alter Ego – 3400km away in Toronto – by harnessing FilmLight’s BLG (Baselight Linked ...

LONDON — 13 April 2017: At NAB2017 (booth SL3828, Las Vegas Convention Center, 24–27 April), FilmLight will demonstrate its version 5.0 advanced colour tools. Users will benefit from the same powerful toolkit, and a consistent and familiar user experience, from the flagship Baselight colour grading and finishing system, through Baselight Editions, to Daylight and the new on-set application, Prelight. “We are ...

LONDON — 16 March, 2017: FutureWorks Media, the leading Indian post production company, has installed two Baselight grading suites in its finishing facility in Mumbai. The company, which has three locations in the country’s movie capital as well as a fourth in Chennai, is a leading provider of visual effects for movies and television as well as a popular finishing house. ...

Umedia assembles renowned Visual Effects and Post Production team to launch new Vancouver facility LONDON — 7 March, 2017: International production and post group Umedia has opened its fifth location based in the popular Canadian centre, Vancouver, incorporating high-quality visual effects services with finishing services. The Vancouver office has installed a powerful Baselight TWO grading and finishing suite. The 10,000-square-foot Vancouver ...

Leading European broadcaster implements extensive FilmLight network to improve time, cost and creativity for short and long form content LONDON — 12 December 2016: Sky, Europe’s leading entertainment company, has extended the capabilities of its post-production department with a suite of high-performance colour tools and technology from FilmLight. The new systems will allow Sky to serve the increasing technological demands of ...

LONDON — 5 December 2016 Gorilla is the largest post-production facility in Wales, with a brand new purpose-built flagship facility in the creative hub of Cardiff Bay. As part of a facility-wide upgrade, Gorilla has boosted its finishing facilities by expanding its Baselight installation, including upgrading to the latest version of the system software. At the heart of the facility is ...

Complete post-production of ZDF’s documentation „Terra X: Mythos Wolfskind“ in 4K and 360° was realized on Dynamic Drive Pool, the Ethernet SAN Shared Storage System of Ardis Technologies. Arnhem, November 23, 2016: With the documentation „Terra X: Mythos Wolfskind“, German Broadcaster ZDF presented its first 4K in-house production (first broadcast in September 2016). Moreover, additional scenes were shot in VR/360° ...