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.
Filmlight went and did it. They released their
long-rumored Mac version of Baselight. Good for them.
Good for the community.
Annual per-seat pricing
is less than I expected. At $7500US for the Solo version
and $9500US for the Multiuser version – it’s about
double the pricing I’ve heard just for their annual
support contracts on a PC. That makes sense to
me.
I have no opinion on whether it’s worth that
price. But several Mixing Light Contributors have made
the move to Baselight over the years. And they paid MUCH
more for those hardware systems, which include
high-performance storage and tricked-out workstations.
So that should tell you something.
You’ll want a
Slate 2 control surface to go with it. But at $15K it’s
50% less than the Resolve Advanced
Panels.
There’s also a free 14-day license if you
want to give it a whirl on your system. A good place to
start learning, besides the official tutorials I’ve
linked to in the Tools section, is Luke
Ross’ ‘Learning Baselight Look’ series here on
Mixing Light (scroll to the bottom of that page
for the first in the Series). Look is the
‘student’ version of Baselight – but it should translate
to this Mac version pretty well,.
There are
several links below if you’re interested in learning
more details.
I’ll see you next Sunday!
Happy Grading!
Sincerely,
Pat
Inhofer Chief Photon Wrangler,
Publisher MixingLight.com
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Zeb wrote a fantastic opinion piece,
“Zeb Chadfield, Founder of post house
The Finish Line, talks about the
systemic failures that lead to
exploitative practices in the UK’s post
production sector.”
“A new research paper looks at a novel
method for visualizing color gamuts in
display technology. The study introduces
the gamut ring intersection technique,
which transforms complex 3D color space
data into more intuitive 2D
visualizations … Their findings show
that while the BT.2020 UHDTV gamut
covers most object colors, even it falls
short of the optimal color gamut,
suggesting future directions for display
development.” When you think BT.2020 was
the end of the journey, there’s a
sequel.
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