• 12:00 Apr 17 LA

• 14:00 Apr 17 Lima

• 15:00 Apr 17 New York

• 16:00 Apr 17 Rio de Janeiro/ Buenos Aires

• 20:00 Apr 17 London

• 03:00 Apr 18 Singapore

• 05:00 Apr 18 Sydney

This session is sponsored by Portrait Displays.

Prize: 1-year license of Calman Studio, the complete calibration suite for studio professionals capable of calibrating a variety of monitors, panels, projectors and more across the entire production chain.

Portrait Displays will also be making a short announcement about some very exciting updates.

• 12:30 Apr 17 LA

• 14:30 Apr 17 Lima

• 15:30 Apr 17 New York

• 16:30 Apr 17 Rio de Janeiro/ Buenos Aires

• 20:30 Apr 17 London

• 03:30 Apr 18 Singapore

• 05:30 Apr 18 Sydney

In this session, iColorist instructors Blake Jones, Jeff Greenberg and Paco Howell will share a top tip.

Blake Jones is a world renowned colorist based in Germany. He has over 28 years of experience with all forms of color correction. He started as a tape operator and soon became a colorist in Hollywood. He started out color grading films and went on to color grade several major television shows and commercial color grading.

Blake then worked as Senior Colorist and Technical Director of Condor Post Production in Amsterdam for ten years, followed by Director of Training at Pandora, where he was also the author of the Pogle operator manual. He went on to teach Resolve for daVinci and write the Resolve operator manual.

Blake is the author of “Film into Video: A Guide To Merging The Technologies 2nd Edition” and “Video Color Correction For Non-Linear Editors: A Step By Step Guide” published by Focal Press. He is now a product developer, colorist instructor and engineer for Creative Tools/Videocation in Munich and remains active as a colorist. See a schedule of Blake’s upcoming classes >

Jeff Greenberg has over two decades of experience as a Post-Production consultant and Master Instructor for Adobe, Apple, Avid and Black Magic Designs, and specializes in editorial, workflow, compositing, sound, color grading, and compression. Jeff is consistently voted as one of the top seminar speakers/ interviewers in the industry. See a schedule of Jeff’s upcoming classes >

Francisco Ramos Howell is a professional colorist and HDR Workflow specialist with more than ten years of experience in the industry. He started his career as a Product Specialist at SGO, training international clients such as El Colorado, NHK Korea, Sky UK, OnSight UK and many others.

“Paco” continued his path as a Mistika Senior Colorist & Online Stereographer at Sky UK for the launch of the Sky3D channel. He also completed Color and Workflow design for many renowned Sky productions, such as the award-winning show Inside the Mind of Leonardo. In the last four years, Paco has been working as a Freelance artist, designing ACES color workflows for Films like “Unfortunate Stories” & the Netflix Series “Hache”, and training companies in ACES, SDR & HDR Color Management. See a schedule of Paco’s upcoming classes >

This session is sponsored by SGO.

Prize: SGO will give away a 1-year license of the full-finishing and color grading solution Mistika Boutique Professional Immersive Edition and 1-year license of media management, transcoding and delivery application Mistika Workflows with one-to-one introductory training.

In this session: Adrian Gonzalez Diaz, Mistika Boutique Product Manager, SGO will unveil a brand new version of Mistika Boutique, exclusively dedicated for education and training. He will also announce new and unique functionality for Mistika Boutique, further enhancing the color toolset and leveraging HDR workflows. Finally, SGO will introduce Mistika Workflows, which allows you to liberate any creative system of every-day media management, encoding and processing tasks.

About SGO & Mistika Technology
SGO is a Spanish high-end technology company with decades of experience in developing and integrating high-end post-production solutions. Built on years of research, development and production experience, Mistika Technology empowers users with new levels of creative power, performance, and efficiency in HDR, UHD/4K, 8K, S3D and VR workflows. As a part of its Multidimensional Workflow Concept, SGO has continued to slice toolsets of its globally-acclaimed Hero Suite Mistika Ultima to address specific industry needs and develop advanced workflow applications, offered on a pay-per-use basis with Mistika VR, Boutique and Workflows being the first to be introduced. Available for both Windows and macOS, Mistika Boutique is the only post-production system to natively integrate the most complete spectrum of professional finishing tools, including color grading, VFX, conforming, Stereo 3D, VR/360º – and so much more.

• 13:00 Apr 17 LA

• 15:00 Apr 17 Lima

• 16:00 Apr 17 New York

• 17:00 Apr 17 Rio de Janeiro/ Buenos Aires

• 21:00 Apr 17 London

• 04:00 Apr 18 Singapore

• 06:00 Apr 18 Sydney

Eric and Lynette will be interviewing each other, discussing the challenges of adapting to different styles, aesthetics, client expectations and technology in different global markets.

They will share their insights working on blockbusters such as Mad Max: Fury Road, Happy Feet and Lego Movie 2, as well as on how VFX grading has changed, color managed workflows, interpreting the filmmaker’s vision, animation v. live action, and mentoring.

Lynette Duensing is Senior Colorist at Instinctual LLC Hollywood, CSI Fellow, HPA/Young Entertainment Professionals Mentor, and Member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. During her 30 year career, she has worked in Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and Shanghai, grading Theatrical Trailers, Commercials, Independent Features, Restoration/Preservation projects, and Music Videos, using Lustre, Resolve, and Baselight color grading platforms.

 

Eric Whipp is Senior Colourist and Partner at alter ego. Born in Auckland New Zealand, Eric moved to Australia as a child where he started working as a film colourist in the mid 1990s. In his career as a colourist he has worked in both the commercial market and on a number of international hit movies, including the 2016 Academy Award Winning ™ Mad Max: Fury Road, directed by George Miller. Eric’s creativity and work on this film was acknowledged with a title card credit on the film. His passion for pushing technology and crafting the image keeps him at the top of the game. Eric is also a founding partner of Toronto post house “alter ego”, the leading commercial colour and VFX studio in Canada.

This session is sponsored by Dolby Vision.

Prize: 2 seats at the new Dolby Individual Training and Certification

The Benefits of Dolby Vision Derived SDR

Dolby Vision has been adopted by all the top studios for HDR content creation. Through the color grading process of creating the metadata, an SDR trim pass is created and approved. Several studios call for that version to be the finished SDR master, with creatives having some discussion as to the capabilities and resulting quality. In response, Dolby created a worldwide tour across 10 cities to demonstrate the capabilities of the tools and conducted a survey of over 550 people to see how the Dolby Vision derived SDR stood up against the ‘hand graded’ original SDR version on 8 clips from Hollywood Studio content (both live action and animation). This presentation will explain the methodology of the survey and share the findings, as well as some organic real-world observations.

• 13:30 Apr 17 LA

• 15:30 Apr 17 Lima

• 16:30 Apr 17 New York

• 17:30 Apr 17 Rio de Janeiro/Buenos Aires

• 21:30 Apr 17 London

• 04:30 Apr 18 Singapore

• 06:30 Apr 18 Sydney

This session, we will hold the Mixer quiz! Film trivia for everyone.

Then we will have a social hour, with some breakout rooms on

• Monitors
• Working in COVID
• Grading tips
• with Eric & Lynette

This session is sponsored by fxphd.

Prize: 1x Resolve MegaPack with Warren Eagles + 1x Introduction to HDR course with Kevin Shaw

fxphd is a professional online training site with courses covering Resolve and HDR, as well as a monthly membership including courses in visual effects, motion graphics, and 3D.  In May, fxphd will be celebrating their 15th year of providing training to artists, colorists, and editors around the world. 

• 14:30 Apr 17 LA

• 16:30 Apr 17 Lima

• 17:30 Apr 17 New York

• 18:30 Apr 17 Rio de Janeiro/Buenos Aires

• 22:30 Apr 17 London

• 05:30 Apr 18 Singapore

• 07:30 Apr 18 Sydney

Blake Jones and Dennis Rose will discuss the 5 big grading trends of 2021, namely:

• Cloud Computing
• Remote working
• Remote client sessions
• Cloud workflow process
• Online learning

Blake Jones is a world renowned colorist based in Germany. He has over 28 years of experience with all forms of color correction. He started as a tape operator and soon became a colorist in Hollywood. He started out color grading films and went on to color grade several major television shows and commercial color grading.

Blake then worked as Senior Colorist and Technical Director of Condor Post Production in Amsterdam for ten years, followed by Director of Training at Pandora, where he was also the author of the Pogle operator manual. He went on to teach Resolve for daVinci and write the Resolve operator manual.

Blake is the author of “Film into Video: A Guide To Merging The Technologies 2nd Edition” and “Video Color Correction For Non-Linear Editors: A Step By Step Guide” published by Focal Press. He is now a product developer, colorist instructor and engineer for Creative Tools/Videocation in Munich and remains active as a colorist. See a schedule of Blake’s upcoming classes >

Dennis Rose, Chief Revenue Officer Sohonet

• 15:00 Apr 17 LA

• 17:00 Apr 17 Lima

• 18:00 Apr 17 New York

• 19:00 Apr 17 Rio de Janeiro/Buenos Aires

• 23:00 Apr 17 London

• 06:00 Apr 18 Singapore

• 08:00 Apr 18 Sydney

2020 saw a seismic shift for many colorists, as facility artists began working from home. As things are starting to open up again, we’ll discuss what we will keep from the past year’s workflows and what will return to the way it was. But more interestingly, what comes after that? The path of technology and work has shifted. Where are we headed now, and what does it mean for both staff and freelancers?

Katie Hinsen, Executive Producer, Dailies and Digital Intermediate, Nice Shoes is an award-winning post-production executive with an extensive background as a finishing artist, engineer, editor, VFX artist, and colorist. She brings her technical expertise to bear in building, launching and running post production facilities globally, and is deeply engaged in exploring and researching the technical innovations that are transforming the entertainment industry. Katie is a passionate mentor and advocate for emerging talent, and the co-founder of Blue Collar Post Collective. Currently she is building and developing Digital Intermediate and Dailies facilities for Nice Shoes across North America, with a focus on innovative, forward-thinking talent and technology frameworks.

This session is sponsored by Kingston.

Mark Noland is currently the field applications engineer for data center products and is part of the Kingston SSD Product Engineering Department. As a field applications engineer Mark works in the field between the engineering team, the Kingston sales team and Kingston’s distributors, integrator, resellers and end-users on helping to engineer solutions from the desktop to the data center. Mark has an extensive background in manufacturing, architecture engineering & construction as well as media & entertainment solutions. Prior to Kingston Mark was a senior solutions architect at Fusion-io, Sandisk & WD, a sales engineer at Autodesk and a visual effects artist/engineer. Mark earner a BA in Fine and Applied Art at the University of Oregon, is a member of the Visual Effects Society, and enjoys great coffee, cooking and any tropical location with a nice beach.

• 15:30 Apr 17 LA

• 17:30 Apr 17 Lima

• 18:30 Apr 17 New York

• 19:30 Apr 17 Rio de Janeiro/Buenos Aires

• 23:30 Apr 17 London

• 06:30 Apr 18 Singapore

• 08:30 Apr 18 Sydney

This session is sponsored by Mixing Light.

Prize: Mixing Light will be giving away two annual memberships to Mixing Light, valued at $249 U.S. each.

• 16:00 Apr 17 LA

• 18:00 Apr 17 Lima

• 19:00 Apr 17 New York

• 20:00 Apr 17 Rio de Janeiro/Buenos Aires

• 00:00 Apr 17 London

• 07:00 Apr 18 Singapore

• 09:00 Apr 18 Sydney

This session, we will hold the second Mixer quiz! Film trivia for everyone.

This session is sponsored by FSI.

• 16:25 Apr 17 LA

• 18:25 Apr 17 Lima

• 19:25 Apr 17 New York

• 20:25 Apr 17 Rio de Janeiro/Buenos Aires

• 00:25 Apr 18 London

• 07:25 Apr 18 Singapore

• 09:25 Apr 18 Sydney

We will finish with a social hour, with some breakout rooms on

• Grading tips
• Remote grading
• Estimating your time on a movie
• Spanish speaking room