Color—it’s more than just a LUT

 

Rec. 709 conversion only

 

Custom film grade

 

At Qualia, we do more than adjust saturation and contrast.

A professional color grade offers much more than a simple LUT can deliver, and no detail is too small for us. We’ll help you take your images from good to excellent!

 

Some of the services we provide:

 

Technical

  • Camera matching

  • LUT creation and editing

  • Noise reduction and cleanup

Color

  • Exposure and color matching

  • Look development

  • Print film emulation

Aesthetic

  • Blemish removal

  • Diffusion and beauty filter effects

  • Lens flares and lens aberrations

All services include the following:

 

  • The conforming process copies all of your footage onto our robust work drives and translates your project into DaVinci Resolve. It’s crucial that your project is properly organized and prepared, so we send full tutorials on project export settings and hard drive setup – we’ll make it easy to set everything up the right way!

  • Once your project is conformed, we start the color grading process with exposure balancing and basic corrections. Further adjustments are made based on previous discussions, any reference material you’ve provided, and/or mock-ups we create using stills from your project.

  • After completing the first pass of the color grade, we’ll send it to you for feedback. While a number of revising formats are available, most of our clients prefer the flexibility of our remote option through Frame.io as it allows them to review the material at any time while leaving shot-specific comments and markups. Remote reference monitoring available upon request

  • When our work is complete, we’ll render out the final version(s) in your specified resolution and codec—and we’re happy to help you choose an option that will work best for your final delivery format! These files can be uploaded to a file-sharing platform and/or included on your work drive when we return it to you.