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Gamut Rings Were a Highlight of Display Week 2023

by Bob Raikes

One of the highlights of the V1.1 IDMS was the inclusion of gamut rings, a way of mapping color performance of displays.

Tags:Colour Grading| Colour Management & Processing| Display Week 2023| showcase

Links Week Starting 26th September 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week – only a few as I have …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Broadcast| Colour Grading| Desktop Monitors| Epson| Game Playing| Google| iPhone| LCD Projectors (3LCD)| MMD (AOC Philips)| Nvidia| Retail| Streaming Dongles| Testing

Brompton Brings Live LUTs to Virtual Production

by Bob Raikes

LUTs (Look Up Tables) are a simple idea. You have two lists and for each value in list one, you have a corresponding value in list 2. When a system or process receives a …

Tags:Colour Grading| Graphics Processing| LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Virtual Sets| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

RGB is Not Enough for Virtual Production

by Bob Raikes

Last week, I went along to an event run by SMPTE UK and hosted by ETC that covered the interesting topic of virtual production using LEDs. I learned a lot! In a ‘small world’ …

Tags:Cameras| Colour Grading| LED| Lighting| Post Production| TV Production| Virtual Sets

Links Week Starting 17th January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Here’s a nice VFX show reel if …

Tags:Cinema| Colour Grading| Desktop Monitors| Digital Signage| Google| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Netflix| OLEDs| Operating Systems| Pricing| Retail| USA

Telling a Story with Colour

by Bob Raikes

Movies are just light and colour and, of courses, are just the modern way of storytelling. So colour is an important part of movie making. The Manhattan Edit Workshop (MEW), a training centre, held …

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FSI Boosts HDR Grading to 5,000 Nits

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Mastering and reference monitor specialist, Flanders Scientific, has a new XM312U UltraHD monitor that has a peak brightness of 5,000 cd/m². Bram Desmet, CEO of Flanders Scientific said that some projects …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Colour Grading| HDR - High Dynamic Range

Vantablack to be Used in Colour Grading Facility

by Artem Alekseenko

Surrey NanoSystems the inventors of Vantablack coating technology announce that they are partnering with Uhørt AS of Oslo to install the first Vantablack light absorbing ceiling in their digital colour grading facility. Uhørt are …

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Dolby Surveys on Manual vs Automatic SDR Grading

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dolby conducted a survey of content professionals to find out what they thought of SDR content that was automatically derived from Dolby Vision mastered content. The background and results of the …

Tags:Colour Grading| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Rec 709

Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 7 – HLG And PQ

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Broadcast Bridge published an interesting article on the differences between PQ- and HLG-based HDR EOTFs and contrasts them with the traditional gamma curves used in content development. What We Think …

Tags:Broadcast| Colour Grading| HDR - High Dynamic Range