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Above and opposite: These flow charts show the ASC CDL-lined path of Prieto’s images from initial capture with the Panavision Genesis through to dailies delivered by Modern VideoFilm. camera, through the digital-imaging technician’s station (which served to monitor exposure and image levels without touching color) and into the 3cP station, where all of the grading happened without affecting what was recorded. At the station, Hinlein would record five seconds of the actual take for Prieto to correct between setups. Prieto enthuses, “With the digital part of the shoot, I did the correcting as we were going through the day, so by the time we finished shooting, I was done!” From there, the literal translation of Prieto’s on-set corrections to the dailies he watched with director Kevin Macdonald was made possible via the ASC CDL. Bob Currier, Gamma & Density’s chief technical officer, explains that although the 3cP interface looks essentially the same as it does when working with digital stills — presenting the cinematographer with gamma, gain and pedestal controls, as well as the option to work with electronic “printer lights” — “when you create an ASC CDL, 3cP mathematically combines all of those different controls down to slope, offset, power and saturation, which is sort of the lingua franca of exchanging that color information.” The offset, slope and power functions of the CDL correspond, respectively, to dark tones, highlights and midtones (a.k.a. lift, gain and gamma). Each function has a corresponding red, green and blue value, except saturation, which is a single value, so that the CDL totals 10 numbers that are then exported as an XML-formatted text file, which, on State of Play, was delivered to colorist Eric Hasse at Modern VideoFilm. Hasse then fed the CDL into the da Vinci, which could read the list and apply Prieto’s exact corrections directly to the image as it went through the tape-to-tape correction for the HDSR 4:4:4 dailies deliverables. Though 3cP’s CDL controls came quickly to Prieto, he notes that it took some time to get used to not having access to RGB curves, which he would manipulate for the 35mm material. Currently, the ASC CDL does not support the use of curves, though there are 90 Flow charts courtesy of Gamma & Density Co.
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Contents
Editor's Note
Short Takes: "100 Days, " Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Production Slate: Mongol
Production Slate: Greensburg
Vintage Indy
A Prince in Peril
Women's World
90 Years of Precision
Post Focus: A 3-D Imax Work Flow for Wild Ocean
Post Focus: 3cP Incorporates ASC CDL on State of Play
Filmmakers' Forum: John Baily, ASC
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
ASC Membership Roster
In Memoriam: Gayne Rescher, ASC
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Rob McLachlan
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