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    Here it is, Dale Grahn Color for iPad

    January 16, 2013 by Patrick

    When we first sat down with Dale Grahn, over lunch, we weren’t sure what to make of his idea.

    “All you need is six buttons,” he said. “We can revolutionize the industry.”

    It was a bit hard to believe. Color grading was a highly technical, semi-mysterious science. Power windows, HSL keys, tracking masks, eyedroppers, scopes, giant control surfaces in dark suites – our understanding was that you needed power tools to even play the game. A lot more than six buttons.

    Nevertheless, it was difficult to discount what Dale was saying. Dale Grahn was a color timer – the film world antecedent to the digital colorist. And he wasn’t just any color timer – he had crafted the look of Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Munich, and hundreds of other films. When Apocalypse Now needed to be re-timed for Apocalypse Now Redux, they went to Dale Grahn. When Steven Spielberg needed a color timer, he went to Dale Grahn.

    Dale Grahn Controls
    So we put aside our disbelief, and took the plunge with Dale and his six buttons. Over the next many months of working with him on Dale Grahn Color – an iPad app the teaches you color timing techniques – it all began to make sense. Dale’s method – the method of the color timer – was very, very different from what we were used to.

    Dale doesn’t immediately slice up the image and start tweaking it. As a color timer, you don’t have those tools. You have to look at the image as a whole, and work with it on its own terms. It’s an absolutely, fundamentally different way to look at an image. Sometimes, that’s a lot more limiting than working with digital tools. Power windows are handy.

    Dale Grahn Controls
    But more often, Dale’s approach is liberating. With all the tools and gizmos gone, you have to focus on fundamentals. What does early morning light look like? What does it look like when it’s a cold day, and the subject has a darker skin tone? How does that connect to the feeling of the story at that moment?

    Often, the best way to approach these questions is to get back to basics. With, for instance, just six buttons.

    “The goal is to learn how to think color,” Dale had said when we first met. It makes sense to us now.

    This is just our first collaboration with Dale – we also have some some very exciting tools for film and video editors in the works. For now, we hope you enjoy Dale Grahn Color for iPad. With the app launched, we finally have time to site down with a hot chocolate and try to figure out why, in that one lesson, Dale added those two points of cyan…

    To learn more check out http://www.dalegrahncolor.com

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    Filed Under: Featured, Tips Tagged With: App, Color, Color Correction, Color Timing, Dale Grahn, iOS, ipad, Tutorial

    Avid Studio For The iPad

    February 2, 2012 by Patrick

    The iPad gains another NLE with the release of Avid Studio for iOS. Avid’s new app sells for $4.99, competing against iMovie’s $4.99 price tag. After 30 days the app returns to it’s full price of $7.99. The app itself looks pretty simple, yet that might be the ticket for quickly editing and uploading something you shot with your iPad.

    I’m fairly shocked to see Avid go down this road. Avid usually aims to be the “pro” app. So seeing them enter the “prosumer” realm is quite the eye opener.

    Check out Avid Studio in the iOS app store for more info.

    Filed Under: FCP, FCP X Tagged With: Avid, iOS, ipad, NLE

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