Tag: Color Grading

Love to Paradise – User Showcase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFe0uT_l3oA Interview – Julian Galea How did you start out in filmmaking? I grew in Sydney, Australia with three brothers and immigrant parents from Malta. Like a lot of kids, I grew up loving movies. I found them absolutely fascinating (still do). This one day my father brought home a VHS Video Recorder and I… Continue reading Love to Paradise – User Showcase

‘Gonna Stop Killing’ by Carla Bozulich

Martijn Rijnberg – The Interview I have used my background in molecular biology to create scientific animations for quite a while, but I have always known that film is my real creative interest. Being able to have results so quickly, the ability to adjust footage with color correction, to play with it, to edit it… Continue reading ‘Gonna Stop Killing’ by Carla Bozulich

What camera settings should I use with FilmConvert?

We get a lot of questions from users about what camera settings you should use to get the best look out of your footage. To help you out, we’ve put together the following set of guidelines: Check our list of camera profile packs FilmConvert is constantly working on new camera profiles for the most popular… Continue reading What camera settings should I use with FilmConvert?

How to get the best footage from your camera

In my previous post, I discussed how camera sensors capture light and how the processor then compresses this information, before writing it to your digital media. Now it’s time to talk about the simple steps you can take to make sure these processes don’t negatively impact on your final output. Log Isn’t Always the Answer… Continue reading How to get the best footage from your camera

How camera codecs work

The richness and clarity that modern-day camera sensors can produce is just astounding. But while sensor technology has come on in leaps and bounds, codecs and their myriad compression techniques have remained mostly unchanged. Of course it’s exciting to see so many cameras on the market with ultra high resolution, jaw dropping latitude or super… Continue reading How camera codecs work

How to nail your skin tones in FilmConvert

Dan McComb is a veteran colorist and editor, based in Seattle, WA. Dan has been a long-time FilmConvert user, and when we contacted him to discuss some new features and product enhancements, he jumped at the chance to try it out. Use FilmConvert Pro to nail your skin tones Dan has some great things to say… Continue reading How to nail your skin tones in FilmConvert

Delicious Cinema, ‘Heritage’

Gab Tarabously is the cinematic mind behind Delicious Cinema, a production company that highlights the world of food and the people who passionately dedicate their lives to feeding others. His ‘Culinary Filmmaking’ projects have been nominated for a James Beard Award, and his most recent collection of stories, ‘Heritage’, won the 2016 Webby Award for… Continue reading Delicious Cinema, ‘Heritage’

Philip Bloom – FilmConvert video tutorial

Philip Bloom put together this video review with footage of a recent shoot in London. He compares ungraded footage to footage graded with FilmConvert, and explains his process for creating a look, saving a preset and then applying this across footage from a range of cameras and picture styles. One of the special properties of… Continue reading Philip Bloom – FilmConvert video tutorial

The San Diego Highwayman – Foster Visuals

FilmConvert Settings Canon 5D MKIII, Cinestyle/Flat FJ 8553 ET film stock Grain: 10-20%, 35mm full frame Color: 70-80% Brent Foster – The Interview I worked as a photojournalist for years covering daily news assignments, and focusing later in my career on longer social issue based photo essays overseas. I really got into filmmaking by discovering… Continue reading The San Diego Highwayman – Foster Visuals