Color Grading
The timeline is locked, the story is told. The editing is done - but you're not finished. Not yet. You've got one final step in your HD digital workflow: color grading.
Ansel Adams called the negative the musical score, the print the performance of that score. Think of your final edit as the score - color correction is the performance of your edit. Especially so with HD. Color grading unfolds your digital data and lifts and stretches the high notes. It prolongs the bass tones. Think of color grading almost like what time does to a fine wine even. Your masterpiece can have the soft but very spicy nose of cassis with hints of oak and very long raspberry finish.
Compass Light bring you absolute control over your creative process - we can work from your existing FCP or AVID media files, or digitize HDCAM or DVCProHD tapes.
We send you a calibrated flatscreen monitor for remotely-supervised sessions, sending samples via FTP, and discussing needs via iChat video conferencing.
Roll your mouse over the image to see the uncorrected color
Color grading tools only come alive with the eye and hand of a skilled colorist and operator. We are pleased that colorist Russell Kaye has joined our staff. Russell has twenty-two years of working photographic experience; he is well-known for his specialty, large-format color photography. Russell has worked widely for editorial clients as diverse as National Geographic Adventure, Discovery Communications, and This Old House. Turning his attention from film to digital, he brings a master's eye and intuitive sense of color and light to the controls of our color grading suite.