Hollywood Colorist Walter (CSI) about his color grading process

Hollywood Colorist Walter (CSI) about his color grading process

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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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11 hours ago, Jesper Hammarbäck said:

Like a dream come true!
Do you often start work with a LUT (log - rec709) in timeline when you do the base grade?

Where do I apply for a job :) 

Love your work!

//Jesper

Lut, Look, whatever is appropriate for the project.

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13 minutes ago, Walter Volpatto said:

Lut, Look, whatever is appropriate for the project.

You most work in YRGB or Color managed?
Or maybe ACEScct?
Would love to hear how you think about the Color Management.

I often work in Color Managed and set my input for the camera and output Color Space to Rec.709 Gamma 2.4.

 

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3 minutes ago, Jesper Hammarbäck said:

You most work in YRGB or Color managed?
Or maybe ACEScct?
Would love to hear how you think about the Color Management.

I often work in Color Managed and set my input for the camera and output Color Space to Rec.709 Gamma 2.4.

 

If the client has no preference, I work in YRGB and i manage my own color.

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