Company 3 Uses DaVinci Resolve for D-Cinema and Dolby Vision Grades for Disney's Tomorrowland' Fremont, CA - June 06, 2015 - Blackmagic Design today announced that grading for Disney's epic science fiction movie Tomorrowland was completed by Company 3's Stephen Nakamura using DaVinci Resolve. As Tomorrowland is the first title to be released in Dolby Vision , Nakamura also used DaVinci Resolve to create a pass for the new Dolby Vision projection system.
Directed by two-time Oscar winner Brad Bird ( Ratatouille, The Incredibles ) and shot by Oscar-winning DP Claudio Miranda ( Life of Pi ), Tomorrowland follows Frank Walker (George Clooney), a former boy genius inventor, and Casey Newton (Britt Robertson), a bright teen bursting with scientific curiosity, as they embark on a danger filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as Tomorrowland.
Tomorrowland' is somewhat brighter and more saturated than real life, but its not an extreme look, as there are no crushed blacks or clipped highlights, said Nakamura. I built a lot of Power Windows in Resolve to very subtly help smooth out the effects. The movie is full of wild, elaborate visual effects, and there are always some enhancements that we can do in the grade when we see everything projected and in context with the other shots.
According to Nakamura, there is an amazing VFX sequence when one of the characters first enters the world of Tomorrowland. He explained: It's a roughly two-minute-long moving shot with an enormous number of elements that Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) created. I was color grading at ILM while they were building the effects, and I used Resolves soft clip and highlight tools within Color Match, along with some chroma keys, to increase and decrease saturation from particular portions of the frame.
Nakamura also used DaVinci Resolve's soft clip and highlight features during the Dolby Vision pass.
When converting the files from the traditional d-cinema P3 format into the PQ format, you can make the brightest part of the frame more than twice as bright, and you can get really deep blacks. Brad and Claudio were interested in taking advantage of this high dynamic range, just in a subtle way, said Nakamura. A lot of the Dolby Vision grade was really about re-interpreting the material so it has a wider dynamic range without overpowering anything. For example, a bright part of the frame, like a lamp, wouldnt completely overpower the actors faces as it potentially could.
He concluded: Even though the Dolby Vision pass gave me the potential to let highlights go brighter than anything youd ever see in traditional d-cinema, I used DaVinci Resolves soft clip and highlights features a lot to help retain the original feel of the standard 14 foot-lambert version in the Dolby Vision 31.5 foot-lambert version.
Press Photography Product photos of DaVinci Resolve are available at www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/images.
About Blackmagic Design Blackmagic Design creates the world's highest quality video editing products, digital film cameras, color correctors, video converters, video monitoring, routers, live production switchers, disk recorders, waveform monitors and real time film scanners for the feature film, post production and television broadcast industries. Blackmagic Design's DeckLink capture cards launched a revolution in quality and affordability in post production, while the company's Emmy award winning DaVinci color correction products have dominated the television and film industry since 1984. Blackmagic Design continues ground breaking innovations including 6G-SDI and 12G-SDI products and stereoscopic 3D and Ultra HD workflows. Founded by world leading post production editors and engineers, Blackmagic Design has offices in the USA, UK, Japan, Singapore and Australia. For more information, please go to www.blackmagicdesign.com.
About Company 3 Company 3 is a group of post production facilities for features, commercials and music videos. Known for our creative color artistry, pioneering technology and global reach, Company 3 is trusted to deliver a quality product every time.
Company 3s incredible talent roster includes John Bonta, Sofie Borup, Sean Coleman, Paul Ensby, Siggy Ferstl, Bob Festa, Billy Gabor, Greg Fisher, Dave Hussey, Beau Leon, Tim Masick, Stephen Nakamura, Tom Poole, Tyler Roth, Rob Sciarratta, Stefan Sonnenfeld and Damien Van Der Cruyssen. www.company3.com. Twitter: @Company3
About Dolby Vision Co-developed with Christie Digital, Dolby Vision uses state of the art optics and image processing to deliver high dynamic range (HDR) with enhanced color technology and contrast ratio for a richer, more detailed viewing experience in the cinema. Dolby Vision delivers HDR with enhanced color that has been praised by filmmakers for its amazing contrast, high brightness and color range that more closely matches what the human eye can see. With Dolby Vision, the blacks are truly black and the colors are vibrant.
Unique to the Dolby Vision projection system, beyond its brightness and vivid color reproduction, is its ability to deliver HDR with the contrast ratio that exceeds 1,000,000:1. The Dolby Vision projection system has been able to achieve a contrast making it a powerful tool to showcase bright elements of the movie, while maintaining the details in the shadows.
About Disney's Tomorrowland From Disney comes two-time Oscar winner Brad Bird's Tomorrowland, a riveting mystery adventure starring Academy Award winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank (Clooney), jaded by disillusionment, and Casey (Britt Robertson), a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth t
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Company 3 Uses DaVinci Resolve for D-Cinema and Dolby Vision Grades for Disney's Tomorrowland' Fremont, CA - June 06, 2015 - Blackmagic Design today announced that grading for Disney's epic science fiction movie Tomorrowland was completed by Company 3's Stephen Nakamura using DaVinci Resolve. As Tomorrowland is the first title to be released in Dolby Vision , Nakamura also used DaVinci Resolve to create a pass for the new Dolby Vision projection system.
