Hollywood Colorist Walter (CSI) about his color grading process

Hollywood Colorist Walter (CSI) about his color grading process

Walter Volpatto (CSI)

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W alter Volpatto (CSI) is one of Hollywood's most successful colorist and some of his movies include Green Book, Dunkirk, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and The Hateful Eight. He primarily works in DaVinci Resolve and uses a fixed node structure that he has developed over the years. 

Lowepost visited Walter at Company 3 LA with our camera team to learn in detail about how he builds his grades.

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3 hours ago, Jesper Hammarbäck said:

Hi :) Im wondering if you using Calman to calibrate your monitors?

Do you use Rec 709 Gamma 2.4 in the Timeline Color Space in Resolve?

If the client dosent ask for anything else.

At home I use lightillusion,  at work I have to ask the engineer team,  but the most difference is fine by the probes we use,  those are 20k...

 

Yes rec709/2.4 for tv, P3D65/2.6 for cinema (usually), p3PQ for hdr

 

Now,  if you're talking about the setting in the resolve color management,  that match the logarithmic hero camera (the log space im working on)

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Vincent Badia

Hi Walter,

May I ask you to clarify how you propagate/ripple the changes.

The way you describe it seems a very fast operation : Perform the change, select the shots to modify, propagate.
But since you don’t use pre/post groups for this, neither shared node. How do you concretely copy and propagate the changes that fast on so many shots at once ?

Thank you very much for your time.

 

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