Color Grading In Spectachrome – Going Full Wes Anderson Part One

Great insight! I would be really interested if you could talk about grading dslr/dslm footage, and how you maximize the footage’s potential. I am a GH5 owner myself, so if you have any expirence with that camera I would be more than happy to hear about your tips on grading its footage.

Good you still your grading insights, its been a while. Mxing Light has become too tech focused and less creative. So I really look forwoard to creative input. If you could coment on the short comings compared to a FS7 oder even Red.

Do you bother with noise reduction before regraining?

I watched Spectrachrome full screen and have to say that you’ve done a fanatic job! That gate weave is subtle, but it’s there and adds a lovely polish to the effect.

I’d love to know more about how you developed the two different looks for before and after.

Hey Dan, love where this insight series is going and look forward to seeing the full breakdown.

It’s a pretty interesting idea about adding grain in the pre-clip area! I’m a bit curious exactly what effect the softensharpen treatment does tho? Just making it more “crunchy”? Also, any specific reason for using FilmConvert as the soften method?

Love it! I’m looking forward to see the full grading breakdown, especially what you’re doing in pre-clip/post-clip. Why do you add grain first and then resharpen? So you sharpen the grain as well don’t you?

I second this, would like to hear the reasoning/thought process for Pre-clip grain!

Also not sure if this has been covered in a previous insight but would be interested to hear about your ‘group’ style of grading. Haven’t encountered this before, but would be interested to see how it’s been useful on this project.

Looks like this insight’s video tutorial is missing.

It’s still missing. I contacted them about it, and I’ve not had a response yet. I’m doing the 7 day trial, so this isn’t exactly the greatest first experience with them…

Hi Kim & Aaron –

Thanks for the bump the video is back in place. We’ve recently moved over 1000 pieces of a content to a new back end and this one and a few others slipped the the cracks.

Kim, thank you for your email similar issues we’re addressing them – we hadn’t responded yet cause we wanted them all fixed. Thanks for your understanding and I we’ve located the other couple missing bits.

Thanks for fixing it quickly!