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An interview from the 2015 Band Pro Open House with Peter Postma of FilmLight. FilmLight develops unique colour grading systems, image processing applications and workflow tools that are transforming film and video post-production and setting new standards for quality, reliability and performance. Their streamlined metadata-based workflows employ robust products with the best creative tools, allowing creative professionals to work at the forefront of the digital media revolution ‘At Every Stage’ of modern workflows. In this interview we talk with Peter about FilmLight, their Post Production Tools, like Daylight and the FLIP Image Proccessor.
Daylight is a powerful dailies platform for shot management and high-performance transcoding. It is designed as a compact yet powerful grading decision tool to help DoPs and directors establish looks and visualise what they have shot, on set or on location, as well as meeting all of the sophisticated deliverables requirements—in one application. Daylight makes use of over 10 years of accumulated Baselight development to provide comprehensive support for all camera and deliverable formats—including audio and retiming capability.
Support for sophisticated rescaling, filtering, masking and burn-in operations, alongside Truelight Colour Spaces for accurate colour transforms, means that all of your deliverable requirements can be met by one application.
Carrying forward all your metadata from set, including the creative decisions you make using FLIP, means the same vision can be seen at all stages in the post-production pipeline. Look data and transform LUTs can be imported directly into Daylight, Baselight and Baselight Editions so you can work on your original raw camera footage with the same looks in VFX, editorial and the final grade.
The ability to export standard ASC CDL lists and 3rd party formatted 3D LUTs enable you to integrate FLIP into any post-production workflow. All image processing in FLIP is performed at 32-bit floating point for the highest possible colour fidelity. This, integrated with the latest advances in Truelight Colour Space technology, makes FLIP ideally placed to deal with the latest High Dynamic Range workflows. Looks developed in the grading theatre during test-shoots can be imported into FLIP, previewed with live footage and then further refined on-set using simple, yet powerful, real-time grading tools. The looks which you create in FLIP are then exported back to the grading theatre and seamlessly combined with the original raw camera footage to reproduce the same looks for the final grade.
For more information please visit: http://www.FilmLight.ltd.uk
