day for night

[Steve Wargo]

When you’re using a Hollywood level color timing system, like a Divinci, one can perform miracles. On the budget that the average guy has, there are some compromises.

I would do as earlier suggested and grab some daylight stuff and start adjusting things. We did a shoot in a cemetary in Mexico that the director decided later would look cool if it was a night shot. We did it in Combustion and it only took 20 minutes to come up with the right image.

We tried that same thing in the FCP color corrector and it did not work as well for some reason.

Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona

It’s a dry heat!

[Todd Terry]

[Steve Wargo] “When you’re using a Hollywood level color timing system, like a Divinci, one can perform miracles”

Yeppers, but it’s not limited to “Hollywood level.” At the post house where we do 35mm telecine, they do tons of tape-to-tape correction in their DaVinci Renaissance suite as well. For some people, even those on a budget, the scene could easily be worth the couple of hundred bucks that it would cost to get a professional colorist to work on it.

I’m all for saving money, and doing it myself… but I also know there are other people out there that certainly more specialized than me and I try to take advantage of that when I can. And sometimes time is worth more than money.

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