Baselight Start to Finish - Series Overview Kodachrome Inspired Look

Series	Kodachrome Inspired Commercial

Nostalgic Golden Tones

Going Retro In a Modern Colour Managed Pipeline

In this Insight we kick off some Kodachrome inspired adventures in Baselight.

Base Grade
Grain
Color Crosstalk
Look operators
Grading in T-Log / E-Gamut working colour space with the T-CAM DRT.

I used Base Grade, Grain, Color Crosstalk and Look operators to take some modern Arri Alexa footage and push it towards nostalgic golden Kodak Kodachrome tones

This is an introduction to the project and a breakdown of how the main look is achieved.

The full-length insights on the grading process are quite detailed and real-time so I always like to do an introduction to the project before diving into the nitty gritty step by step.

You can check out the finished spot here.

Directed by the ever amazing Emily McDonald

In the upcoming Insight we’ll go back to the beginning and cover:

Setting up the project
Adding a custom format for the project aspect ratio
Colour Management
Scene Detection
Loading Up The Offline & Audio

Comments Please!

I’m always extra excited to hear comments on these Insights as I can make sure to cover any questions in the next part.

-Dan

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April 20, 2020 at 4:11 am #32405

Dan Moran
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Martí Somoza
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April 20, 2020 at 9:47 pm

Amazing grade and great insight! Baselight is so powerful. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
Verne Mattson
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April 21, 2020 at 2:25 am

I’m glad you’re doing this series on Baselight.
Jeffrey S
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April 21, 2020 at 5:17 pm

How are you able to use Baselight on what seems to be a home studio setup? Since there’s no standalone software version.
Dan Moran
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April 21, 2020 at 5:35 pm

This is recorded in the Baselight student version which runs on most mac systems
Luca
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April 22, 2020 at 12:38 am

What Mac are you running it on?
François Dompierre
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April 22, 2020 at 1:44 pm

Thanks Dan! Looking forward to the next chapters as I just started learning Baselight. The student edition is working well on our new Mac Pro and we had some Tangent panels collecting dust in storage. It’s a nice little setup to practice Baselight. But the software is so different and the UI is cluttered …and there’s not a lot of tutorials. So thanks!
Ben Nardini
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April 24, 2020 at 8:36 pm

Very cool, thanks Dan! Like François looking forward cause I try to learn baselight too
Jose Santos
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May 10, 2020 at 10:59 am

Loving these baselight insights! Keep it up!
Stephen W
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May 28, 2020 at 1:05 am

Hi Dan, Great tutorial. After you’ve ran scene detection can you change the global input color space? When I change it in my sequence tab it’s only effecting the shot my cursor is on. I’m also not seeing this option under scene settings. Thank you!
Dan Moran
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May 29, 2020 at 9:30 am

You can indeed, I’ll probably cover this a little more in my next insight as I had already changed mine before scene detecting it. If you select all the clips and then push cmd+g that turns on grouping and the clips should flash red. Swap the input colour space and then push cmd+g again to turn it off.
Sami B
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May 31, 2020 at 1:32 pm

We’re going to break it down all the way from every single layer used.

I’m not really seeing a lot of layers there…
Matthew Fletcher
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November 17, 2020 at 12:08 am

Very helpful, thank you!
Stephen W
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February 26, 2021 at 7:00 pm

Hi Dan, How did you get the drop down menu out of the Hue Shift button to bring up looks?

Thanks!
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