American Cinematographer - May 2008 - (Page 54) A Need for Speed Tattersall lines up a shot on a greenscreen stage. tor and wipe from it to [the feed from the camera], and we could match the two perfectly. That reduced our time spent grading at Pacific Title quite a bit. Also, because the images are full resolution, even the publicity department can use them.” In addition to playing back full-resolution HD, the Codex system is able to flavor HD files in any format desired. For Speed Racer, the files were converted to MXF for Avid, and the editors were handed ready media on drives with no capture time necessary. The sound department downloaded its masters into the Codex system, and those were likewise delivered ready to the editorial department. Instead of just watching dailies in the morning, the crew was able to see rough-cut and rough-composited sequences. With each foray into digital cinematography, Tattersall strives to improve the workflow, and on Speed Racer, he felt it was time to address an issue that had long been on his mind. He explains, “All video monitors are natively daylight-balanced, and that’s fine when you’re in a mixed-lighting situation or working with daylight-balanced fixtures, but when you’re working in all-tungsten light, the monitors never look quite right compared to what you see on the set. On several occasions, I’ve wanted to balance the monitors to a tungsten color temperature to get rid of this disparity. Dan Glass and Pacific Title worked out a special LUT for our monitors that emulated a 3200°K balance; it wasn’t perfect, but it was much closer to what I wanted. Of course, we had a tented engineering station on set that was calibrated correctly, but we also had 54 http://www.efd.com.mx http://www.efd.com.mx http://www.efd.com.mx
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