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FilmLight Extends Colour Awards Deadline
FilmLight extends the 2026 Colour Awards deadline to 10 August and announces the first 15 jurors from cinematography and colour grading.
Colour Awards deadline approaches
Entries for the 2026 colourist awards close 31 July, with documentaries folded into Spotlight and clear ProRes upload specs.
FilmLight fl-enhance: Baselight Tools Escape Into Python
FilmLight’s fl-enhance repository brings Baselight and Daylight scripts, shaders and FLAPI tools to GitHub, including LUT wrapping, ACES EXR transcoding and colour utilities.
Neat Video 6.1 updates OFX and host support
Neat Video 6.1 adds Baselight 7 support, new default profile controls and OFX updates across Windows, macOS and Linux.
Baselight v7 refines the colourist’s toolkit
FilmLight’s Baselight v7 adds smarter mattes, new depth tools and workflow upgrades for complex grading and VFX-heavy productions.
Analog Soul, Digital Body: ARRI Film Lab Arrives
ARRI’s new OpenFX plugin Film Lab emulates analog film’s grain, halation, and weave in real time for any camera. Free trial now via RE:Vision Effects.
Dolby Vision, Dolby Vision 2, and Beyond!
HDR isn’t just a jungle of acronyms on your TV box—though it may feel that way. To bring some order, we sat down with Michael Hackl from Dolby to talk about Dolby Vision, how it compares to HDR10 and HDR10+, how it is made, and what’s new in Dolby Vision 2.
Goodbye Adobe Premiere
I whispered, "Goodbye, Adobe!" as I pressed the unsubscribe button. To me it sounded very much like “Hasta la vista” but less dramatic. We had a good run, but it was time to move on.
Nara: Now with More Sync, Less Scream
Filmlight’s Nara adds remote realtime playback sync, review-in-Baselight, and more versioning features for collaborative post and color workflows.
Baselight Goes Mac: FilmLight Introduces Baselight S and M
Baselight S and Baselight M bring FilmLight’s high-end grading tools to macOS with subscription-based access for freelancers and facilities.
FilmLight sends your frames!
FilmLight’s Nara simplifies media workflows and improves collaboration. And you don't even need to have Baselight in your pipeline! The latest version enables seamless progress reviews, approvals, and compliance processes—all without proxies. Interested?
FilmLight REMOTE: Next-Generation Remote Color Grading
FilmLight introduces a new remote grading solution with JPEG-XS, NICE DCV, and full control surface integration.
Look development between DoP & colourist
There's a word on everyone's lips at the moment: "look development".
DoP Matthias Bolliger and colourist Louise "Lou" Temmesfeld take a look behind this term.
Grading tricks from a professional
Many of you come into contact with colour grading time and again, whether intentionally or unintentionally. For example, when thinking about colours in the context of a VFX workflow or, like me, because it has become part of my job as a filmmaker in the image film sector. It would be perfectly conceivable to have this work step done by a professional colourist, but the budget is often not sufficient for this...
Filmlight: Free event on the 25th of May!
Let's meet in Cologne: FilmLight's image processing specialists provide expert information on the latest in broadcast post-production!
Germany in Baselight
A look back: In DP 01:2019, we took a look at high-end grading with Baselight. We also spoke to Rotor Film about HDR material and the Amazon series "Deutschland 86".
Colour Award | Competition
Show your colours: Film Light presents its own award. Colourists wanted!
Tangent Wave 2 Control Panel
So one decision is that people need to straighten something. We take a closer look at the new edition of the wave panel and analyse the advantages and disadvantages compared to its predecessor and the alternatives.
Free Baselight Student Version
FilmLight wants to give the next generation of color graders access to Baselight and has therefore released a free version of the grading software, with some restrictions on its use.
BaseGrade and the evolution of colour grading
At NAB 2O16, colour grading specialist Filmlight caused quite a stir in the colourist scene. BaseGrade - a completely newly developed grading operator for Baselight - was presented, which is intended to replace classic tools such as Lift, Gamma and Gain. That sounds like a small revolution. Filmlight promises more consistent results and a more natural way of working. Reason enough not only for Baselight colourists to take a detailed look at it.
Sneak Peek – DP 03 : 17
One factor that makes working in the film and post-production industry so interesting: you never stop learning. That is why, in our first focus, we give you further-training tips and show paths into the CG industry beyond a traditional degree. To ensure that you also have enough time available for your education, in the second focus we present the most practical plug-ins.
Baselight Version 5.0
Colour control on a completely new level – that is what Filmlight promisses with version 5 of the Baselight colour finishing system.
Tidy Elements with the Rageboard
The grading panels of the "Element" series can be found in many grading suites - and usually in a hopeless mess. But now there is a chassis for this: the "Rageboard".
Visualising barley juice
Looking back: In DP 04 : 2013, we were thirsty for beer, because pilsner brand Warsteiner was celebrating its 260th birthday with an advertising campaign. The post-production studio nhb and the agency Kolle Rebbe created bottles in 3D for the Warsteiner brewery. Cheers!
Color-Correction Plug-in for Avid Tools
FilmLight has now released a plug-in for the two Avid tools Media Composer and Symphony that is intended to make real-time color correction possible.
Film Festival Premiere
Fassbinder classic digitally restored with the involvement of Michael Ballhaus.
PICTORION das werk Buys Company Licence for Nuke
dve Digital Video & Effects GmbH reports the sale of a company licence for The Foundry’s Nuke compositing software to PICTORION das werk.
Digital Film Cameras Compared at CinePostproduction
“Digital Cameras Compared” project led by Michael Ballhaus
Kino-Grading in a New Dimension
CinePostproduction now offers new suites for digital color grading, including installations in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne.
CINE PLUS Expands Its Camcorder Inventory
CINE PLUS adds eight Sony PDW-700 XDCAM HD 422 camcorders with SD options to its nationwide rental inventory.
Sebastian Gassner Takes Charge of Sales at CinePostproduction Geyer Cologne
Sebastian Gassner will take over sales at CinePostproduction Geyer Cologne on January 1, 2009. He previously spent four years at ma.ja.de. filmproduktion, where he had led the Leipzig office since 2007. As production manager, Gassner was responsible for the development, production, post-production and controlling of numerous national and international cinema and television documentaries.
Acht Frankfurt Wins Eyes & Ears Award
Service provider wins for “ZDF Unsere Besten — Die Größten Fernsehmomente” and sports title sequences for Swiss Television.