The Gamut Rings Edition – The Sunday Color Grading Newsletter

June 1, 2025

This week - Rigging Mission: Impossible, visualizing color volumes, frequency separation, Resolve 20 out of beta, Samsung beats LG, and more.


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Issue DCXVIII: The Gamut Rings Edition

The Color Grading Newsletter

News, reviews, thoughts, career advice, and humor for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sundays. Curated by a professional color grader and the CEO of MixingLight.com.
From The Publisher
We are officially in summer, here in the Northern Hemisphere. I hope it finds you doing well.

This brings us to the topic of Summer Blockbuster movies. On opening weekend, my Mission: Impossible—finding a Dolby Vision screening of Mission: Impossible. I couldn’t, except for a single 9 p.m. screening at the three different theaters I checked.

But the IMAX presentation? Not a problem. I’m not sure I like this trend of ‘shot-on-IMAX’ movies limiting alternative premium formats. My local IMAX screens all have uncomfortable seats. And now that theaters are starting to re-install IMAX film chains, I’m even less happy. Unless I watch a screening on opening weekend, I’ll get to see film scratches and pops in super-large formats in sub-standard comfort. This feels regressive to me, but it’s keeping filmmakers happy.

Hopefully, exhibitors will upgrade their auditoriums as they upgrade their projection hardware.

That’s my deep thought for the week.

I’ll see you next Sunday.

Happy Grading!

Sincerely,

Pat Inhofer
Chief Photon Wrangler, Publisher
MixingLight.com

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There are interesting details about the physical challenges of making this film. There’s also a short section on the color grading schedule and the scene they worked on the most.
“The industry has needed a better approach to measure and present true color capability, as well as a means of plotting an inherently 3D property on 2D media. To address this need, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) pioneered a tool called Gamut Rings. It is notable that in recent years, Gamut Rings have been written into standards from key organizations including SID’s ICDM (IDMS 5.32), the IEC (such as 62977-2-1, 62977-2-2, and 62906-5-1), and the CIE itself (such as CIE 246).”

Click through to learn about gamut rings and the 3D space notation.

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