October 28, Monday, 08:30-12:45 (4 hours)

Conveners and Speakers: Charles Poynton, independent researcher, and Laurens Orij, Crabsalad

Location: TBD - attendees are responsible for getting themselves to/from the venue. Venue details will be provided to attendees prior to the event. Ticket required for entry.

Description
Digital cinema is a demanding application of color image science; color grading is a central aspect of digital cinema. A digital cinema image/color scientist and an accomplished colorist team up to describe cinema color grading, and show you by example why cinema color grading involves much more than a “scene-to-screen” transfer. Using live demonstrations, this workshop delves into camera technology and camera image coding. It describes the “pipeline” of post-production and mastering, including the important scene rendering transform, and how and where art is introduced, with examples. The radiometric (linear-light) internals of modern grading systems such as Baselight and Resolve are detailed. It ends with a discussion of color coding for distribution – the DCI X’Y’Z’ scheme, with its standard DCI P3 primaries, and recently commercialized HDR distribution schemes including HDR10 and ICtCp-based Dolby Vision.

Charles Poynton is an independent researcher based in Toronto, Canada, who specializes in the physics, mathematics, and engineering of digital colour imaging systems.

Color scientist Laurens Orij is a colorist for movies and commercials at Crab Salad in the Netherlands.