The role that color grading plays in films, episodics and spots is critical — it can change the entire feel of a project. These days colorists are being asked to get involved earlier and earlier in the process, often providing important feedback before shooting, and on-set LUTs help establish color throughout. There is an entire end-to-end color pipeline now, and the process has evolved for the better. It has also gotten a lot more complicated.

Below we highlight some of today’s key advances in color technology, with each providing information on why they could be the solution to your needs.

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Colorfront offers renowned dailies, transcoding and streaming solutions utilized by companies worldwide. Founded in 2000 by Mark and Aron Jaszberenyi, Colorfront has received prestigious awards for its expertise in color grading and cutting-edge software development. Colorfront is headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, with offices in Los Angeles.

What you’ll find in Colorfront’s techToolbox:

Blackmagic Design creates world-class color correctors, video editing products, digital film cameras, video converters and more for the feature film, post production and broadcast industries. Our DaVinci Resolve 18.5 combines professional offline and online editing, color correction, audio post, multi-user collaboration and visual effects in one. It adds a Fusion page with over 250 tools for compositing, paint, particles, animated titles, etc. and includes an update to Fairlight audio, with over 100 new features and improvements.

What you’ll find in Blackmagic Design’s techToolbox:

FilmLight, best known for its Baselight grading system, offers tools for every stage of the color pipeline – from pre-visualization and look development with Baselight LOOK, live on-set grading with BLG Tools, dailies processing with Daylight, and editorial and VFX integration with Baselight for Avid, NUKE and Flame. FilmLight also launched the annual FilmLight Colour Awards in 2021, open to colorists on any grading platform.

What you’ll find in FilmLight’s techToolbox:

AJA develops high-quality, cost-effective products for the M&E and proAV markets, including video interface technologies, converters, streaming solutions, digital video recording solutions, data management software, professional cameras and more. Designed and manufactured in Grass Valley, California, AJA products are sold through resellers and systems integrators around the world.

What you’ll find in AJA’s techToolbox:

Assimilate provides a complete toolset and workflow pipeline from camera to post. Our new tool, Live FX, handles everything color accurately from green screen previz through final pixel for LED wall-based virtual production workflows. Live Looks and Live Assist take live color grading and video assist to the next level with a streamlined connection to SCRATCH, Assimilate’s dailies processing and high-end finishing software.

What you’ll find in Assimilate’s techToolbox:

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