Day for Night

What is Day for Night?
We’ve all seen it: footage shot in bright sunshine, but underexposed and filtered to look like moonlight. Now you can get the same effect, only better, with more control.By changing the lightness/darkness of the filter color you change the brightness of the scene. Select a darker color and the scene is darker. Select a more saturated color and your moonlight color is more saturated. Human vision at night is desaturated depending on the amount of visible light, so you may want to desaturate the original scene before adding the moonlight color. Adjusting the saturation slider removes the original colors in the scene for a more natural look.

Night Vision mode uses the red channel to create a B/W image and applies a green filter to simulate night vision scopes.

Infra-Red mode uses the red channel to produce a B/W image. Because the image is made from light in the red spectrum, it is similar to infra-red photography. Of course your video camera likely does not record true infra-red energy, so this is only a simulation. Use Infra-Red mode in combination with Chromatic Glow for greater effect.

Sapphire

 

Sapphire Plug-ins from GenArts, Inc. is a collection of over 175 image processing and synthesis effects — ranging from every day tools to exotic effects. Each plug-in has many options and parameters that can be adjusted and animated for an unlimited range of results. Sapphire Plug-ins are resolution-independent, include multi-processor support for faster rendering, and run on Windows, Mac, Linux, and IRIX. Complete online documentation and seamless integration with host platforms make it easy to enhance any project.

Sapphire Plug-ins have become a standard for high-end visual effects creation at leading studios, broadcast and post production facilities around the world. They are widely recognized for their unrivaled image quality and unique organic look, and have been used extensively in feature films such as The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars – Episode I, II and III, Spider-Man 1, 2 and 3, X-Men 1, 2 and 3, Sin City, Serenity, Fantastic Four, The Matrix trilogy, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, War of the Worlds, I Robot, and Titanic.

  

 Sapphire demo

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Making off Dove Commercial

I had to bring this commercial to this web site as it has very interesting post-production

Link to the commercial

 

Film Master

Film Master is a comprehensive colour grading and finishing solution for feature films and commercials, long form television and restoration.

Film Master is a creative tool that will help you realise your most ambitious vision; with beautiful, vivid colours and sharp, clean images. It’s also a process tool that will streamline your workflow through easy integration into your environment. Drive a system that can match the intensity of your imagination and help you turn projects around faster than ever.

Flexible Workflows; Easy Integration

Film Master offers the widest range of creative tools, built into the most flexible non-linear workflow for digital film or video post-production. From data conform through editing, picture enhancement, colour correction, compositing and visual effects, to multi-format delivery for any format from iPod to IMAX.

Ingest using an EDL, AAF or cultist, then conform data directly from a SAN, or capture live from video or telecine. Support for a wide range of file formats such as DPX, QuickTime and MXF means you can bypass copying and transcoding completely. Comprehensive conforming tools prepare your timeline with cuts, transitions and varispeed commands. Or, use Film Master’s powerful automated scene detector to quickly analyse your reels in the background.

Expansive, High-end Colour Tools

Film Master’s creative and corrective colour tools combine a traditional approach to grading with the power and flexibility of digital technology. Select the colour tool that suits the task best; from Printer Lights through Colour Curves to Brightness Regions. With the unlimited mulit-layer timeline you can combine capabilities, using different isolation tools to produce complex looks quickly. Achieve dynamic grades and animation of effects parameters, and manipulate and track individual shapes on a transform or per-point basis, to refine that look over the whole shot.

Purpose-Built Control Surface

The Film Master Control surface includes four ergonomic and functional control panels that can be arranged to suite the needs of any colourist. Using a combination of traditional trackballs with rings and high-quality knobs and buttons, operators can move quickly to complete the work in the shortest time possible. Four separate displays give feedback on changes whilst the image is updated immediately. Carefully selected components provide a better feel and a long lifespan.

Dedicated transport controls include a proven jog/shuttle control and immediate control of the play heads. Other areas of the control surface give direct access to many of Film Master’s most useful functions whilst others are available for user allocation.

List Management

With Film Master you can view all the events in a composition as thumbnails, as a contact sheet list view in either source or record order, giving direct access to any track, play head, or event. From here any part of a grade or its dynamics can be copied to the current shot.

Easily-accessible Memories speed the workflow, offering different ways to store and recall, all or part of your grades and dynamics from shot to shot. One-button shortcuts allow recall from previous or next shot or +/- 2 shots for dual camera scenes such as interviews. Each Memory holds a full resolution reference frame.

Notes enable you to save unlimited numbers of these snapshots in folders so that you can assemble libraries of looks and access them in any project. A QuickNotes feature give you direct access for up to eight Notes from the control panel with a single key press.

The DI Suite

You can view and render Film Master projects in all Digital Vision software applications, releasing the main system for further client work. Add a Film Cutter assistant workstation and Turbine processor, sharing the same SAN, and you have a truly collaborative suite. Add our unique DVO tools to the assist stations to off-load grain management or dust busting.

Source: Digital Vision