colour correction
Digital Grading brings all the power of video colour correction, at full film resolution.
Efilm has chosen Lustre for its speed, flexibility and accuracy. After scanning images into the digital realm, the colorist can adjust contrast, saturation, secondary colour correction, correct parts or elements of a shot, or apply dynamic grading through the course of a shot. It's all viewed, projected on the big screen, in real time, the best way to capture every creative decision.
We can grade single shots, sequences, trailers or even complete feature films, correcting lighting problems or imparting a particular look or feel to the film as a whole.
The image is digitally projected at 2K resolution, and the projector is calibrated with custom look-up tables (LUTs), providing a controlled match between the display, preview monitors, and the final projected film print.
Clients may participate in grading sessions as little or as much as they require. The colorist in the digital department is the same person who will take the eventual film through to the answer print in the lab - ensuring that the client's vision is maintained right through to the release prints.
Digital color correction allows many benefits over traditional film grading, including:
- Instant Feedback - In a typical digital colour grading session, cinematographers see their films projected digitally, and instantly and accurately see the result of their decisions.
- Keying and Matting - In digital colour grading, shapes over part of the frame can be used to selectively correct particular features. For example, an actor's eyes can be made brighter, and then tracked through an entire scene, with the rest of each frame unaffected by this change. Alternatively, a shot can be progressively lightened from beginning to end to correct a change in the original. In traditional film grading, any changes made must be applied to the entire frame, and uniformly to the entire shot.
- Additional Options - The Digital color grading session can include many additional options not available in traditional film grading, such as contrast adjustments, image sharpening, colour changes and so on.