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FilmLight finishing gives distinction to Cannes winners

Two of the top prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival have gone to ground-breaking movies which rely on FilmLight colour science for their distinctive looks. Parasite, from Korean director Bong Joon Ho, took the Palme d’Or, while director Mati Di...

Submitted by MKM Marketing Communications

Published 03 July 2019

FilmLight introduces ProRes RAW native support

The latest version of the core Baselight software, version 5.2, and Daylight now support native access to the ProRes RAW format. This is one of the first full implementations of the ProRes RAW format from a world-leading professional colour grading a...

Submitted by MKM Marketing Communications

Published 07 April 2019

At NAB 2019 FilmLight adds more to modern colour finishin...

With the colour grading suite now the hub for finishing on movies, premium television and commercials, FilmLight is focusing on putting all the right colour tools into the hands of the creatives who need them, and on simplifying the pipeline for coll...

Submitted by MKM Marketing Communications

Published 28 March 2019

Latest FilmLight Colour Day to be held at NAB2019

The next in the series of acclaimed FilmLight Colour Day masterclasses will be held alongside NAB on Monday 8th April 2019. Presented by industry leaders in creative grading, this intensive day will introduce colourists, DoPs and the wider production...

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Published 25 March 2019

FilmLight activates v5 for Baselight STUDENT

Baselight STUDENT, FilmLight’s free macOS application, has been enhanced with the innovative and creative advances from the core Baselight v5 software. Baselight STUDENT v5 will allow those developing their skills as a colourist to have the full rang...

Submitted by MKM Marketing Communications

Published 10 January 2019

BVE returns to the ExCeL under the theme Here to Create

BVE, the UK’s leading broadcast, production and media tech event will return to ExCeL London from 26th - 28th February 2019. Now officially open for registrations, BVE 2019 is here to create a unique opportunity for over 12,000 creatives, technical p...

Submitted by Marlin PR

Published 17 December 2018

FilmLight Case Study: Mining the archives for First Man

The movie First Man dramatises the story of Neil Armstrong’s famous giant leap for mankind. To give it a strong sense of authenticity, Director Damien Chazelle approached NASA to see if there was any archive footage from the Apollo era. The good news...

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Published 11 December 2018

FilmLight illuminates commitment to Japanese creative com...

FilmLight will demonstrate its creative and technical commitment to Japanese television broadcasting and post-production with its own booth at Inter BEE 2018 (Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, 14–16 November, #3311). This marks both the five-year anniversary of...

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Published 08 November 2018

FilmLight creates Cold War look for The Americans

The sixth and final Emmy award winning series of The Americans, a period spy thriller set in the 1980s during the Cold War, was recently finished in HDR and 4K Ultra HD at Technicolor PostWorks in New York. Since series two, the look of the finished...

Submitted by MKM Marketing Communications

Published 29 October 2018

Baselight innovation streamlines collaborative creativity...

FilmLight is to demonstrate remarkably powerful new functionality for its colour grading and management platform Baselight at IBC2018 (Amsterdam, 14–18 September, stand 7.B26). The latest software will be shown on Baselight grading stations, and also...

Submitted by MKM Marketing Communications

Published 07 September 2018

FilmLight boosts performance and collaboration for editin...

At IBC, FilmLight will be showing the new features of Baselight v5 for Avid and NUKE, along with BLG for Flame, the latest product in the Baselight Editions range. The popular plugins bring sophisticated colour control and creativity to Avid editors,...

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Published 30 August 2018

FilmLights Worldwide Colour Tour brings key industry tale...

FilmLight is to stage one of its hugely popular colour tour masterclasses at IBC2018 (RAI Amsterdam) on Sunday 16 September. This intensive day of live presentations and practical discussions is designed to guide colourists, DoPs and the wider produc...

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Published 07 August 2018

Encore turns to Baselight to colour the story of Picasso

The second series of National Geographic’s popular series Genius focuses on the extraordinary life of painter Pablo Picasso. Colourist Pankaj Bajpai at Encore in Hollywood was charged with creating the look that evoked the time and place as well as t...

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Published 05 July 2018

Baselight helps Donbass meet Cannes deadline

Donbass, a new movie by Ukrainian writer/director Sergei Loznitsa, is to be shown as a work-in-progress version at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Post-production was to a tight timescale – shooting only wrapped in March – and Bucharest facility Digit...

Submitted by MKM Marketing Communications

Published 20 June 2018

FilmLight launches worldwide colour masterclass tour

To help colourists, DoPs and the wider production and post industry understand the opportunities and challenges that HDR and new delivery formats bring, FilmLight is taking intensive and specialist masterclasses on a world tour. Dates are already set...

Submitted by MKM Marketing Communications

Published 20 June 2018