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Sony is expanding their film business by adding a new business to their collection : Sony Colorworks.  A digital post arm to work with their existing Sony Pictures Imageworks, they’ve already completed work on a few films including “Zombieland”, “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”, and “Micheal Jackson’s This Is It” in relative silence.

“The idea is if you come here you can have everything done in one place,” said Chris Cookson, prexy of Sony Pictures Technologies and onetime tech exec at Warner. Technicolor ran a DI facility in the Stage 6 building but ankled earlier this year. Sony seized the opportunity to set up its own third-party post facility.

The DI field is very competitive, but Sony has a leg up given the tight integration they will have with Sony ImageWorks and Sony’s sound department, both already used by several companies.

via Sony creates new digital sector – Entertainment News, David Cohen, Media – Variety.

Graphics color correction, sony, vfx

Red Giant Software has just released its newest product “Magic Bullet Mojo” to bring the magic of color-adjustment to every VFX editor.

Now you can have one of Hollywood’s best tricks up your own sleeve. Modern blockbusters often use a subtle coloring effect to warm up actors’ skin tones while backgrounds and shadows get a cool blue treatment –– but the trick is to do it while keeping your talent in focus. Magic Bullet Mojo gives you this modern Hollywood look in seconds, with easy customizable controls to suit any footage.

It’s available for a mere $99, with a trial version for you to experiment with.

via Red Giant Software: Magic Bullet Mojo 1.0.

Graphics color correction, magic bullet mojo, redgiant, software, vfx

Scott Simmons at the studiodaily site has a great article on how to adapt a Kensington trackball to behave like a more advanced color correction system.

The Kensington trackball won’t give you control over more than one parameter at a time. But it will give you a bit more precise control over the color wheels. That’s lift/gamma/gain in Colorista and Blacks/Mids/Whites in the Final Cut Pro 3-way color corrector.  The secret lies in the Kensington MouseWorks software control panel.

Studio Daily Blog » Poor man’s control surface.

Hardware color correction, kensington