LONDON — FilmLight is announcing a new collaboration with Avid that brings a new Professional Color bundle to editors.
FilmLight first showed Baselight Editions on Avid Media Composer at NAB 2012 and since then the two companies have worked closely to improve interoperability between their products, helping editors and colorists. This new venture of FilmLight works to provide solutions that address the growing demands for perfect color control throughout the professional post workflow.
The Professional Color bundle brings together Baselight for Avid — which delivers a powerful color grading toolset — with tAvid Media Composer in one single package. Immediately available on Mac or Windows for $1,799, the bundle makes it easy for editors to increase their finishing capabilities, directly within their NLE system.
“Through Avid Everywhere and the MediaCentral Platform, Avid provides the most open, extensible and flexible media environment that integrates with technology from Avid and other providers,” says Avid vice president & chief product officer, Dana Ruzicka. “By working closely with FilmLight, we’re delivering seamless, collaborative workflows that enable creative professionals to work more efficiently and focus on telling great stories.”
Baselight for Avid is a real-time plugin, so color corrections can be played directly on the Avid timeline. It provides unlimited primary and secondary grades in a single layer, including mattes, automatic object tracking and full keyframe animation.
As well as using modified AAF files to exchange grades, Baselight for Avid shares the same BLG color metadata as all systems in the FilmLight range, so projects can be transferred and shared between on-set, near-set and the grading suite without rendering, and with the latest grade always available in editorial for a powerful and fast workflow. The BLG format carries sophisticated grading data including secondary color correction, shapes and tracked objects. And, as the grade metadata is fully modifiable throughout the process, workflow efficiency is greatly improved as corrections and last minute changes can be made directly in Media Composer, with no need to return to the full Baselight suite.
“Editors find it hugely frustrating to work with a mix of graded and raw images, and the cumbersome round-tripping involved in sharing projects between editorial and grading,” says Steve Chapman, CEO and co-founder of FilmLight. “Baselight Editions eliminates that by combining the ability to comprehend and show the latest grade in the edit suite with the optional ability of the editor to adjust that grade to quickly incorporate last-minute changes such as the late arrival of new material. The Professional Color bundle puts two professional software products together in a single package, to make it easy and cost-effective to get started on the most productive way of collaborative working.”
FilmLight will be exhibiting Baselight for Avid at NAB 2016. The plugin can also be seen on Avid’s stand.