Posted by Martin Heffels on 09/04/05 11:52

On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 10:09:25 GMT, eb7g <eb7g@shaw.ca> wrote:

>So to me, it looks like I'm going to have to spend some money do get a
>perfect looking film. Or so my hypothesis goes.

If you have a professional grader, they can give you the look you want
straight away, while you are twiddling for hours to get that shot perfect.
The quality of their equipment is better (e.g. a daVinci works with 8:8:8
colour resolution), so the material will be even less affected when graded.
The amount of shots determines how long the grading will take. It is
important to bring an EDL along, so that one can be fed into the
grading-machine, and the operator does not have to search for the cuts (can
be done automatically too, but this might miss a cut). Also it is important
to take out transitions. Despite claims that the grading machine can do
grading transition at the place of the transition, it doesn't look that
good.If you book a grading session, you can always ask to let it be done by
a trainee, outside the main hours (so that would become evening/night), as
this can save you lots of money (I've had to pay like 25% of the official
rate a few times), and you still use exactly the same equipment.

If you would be in for a long time at an expensive rate, it might work out
cheaper to buy a decent grading-program like Color Finesse, and with a
decent monitor, do the lot yourself.

cheers

-martin-
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