Revolutionary digital grading system available at introductory price of $75,000
FilmLight, pioneers of digital film technology, announced today the worldwide release of Baselight, its advanced digital film grading and finishing system. Baselight is a third generation product, designed and developed within a production environment, and used extensively on many high-end feature films including Cold Mountain, Love Actually, Thunderbirds, Bright Young Things, Tomb Raider II and the Harry Potter series.
The Baselight system is a proven software product running under Linux on PC hardware. It is both scalable and affordable, supporting a collaborative workflow through use of an open relational database. Baselight supports familiar control surfaces and is integrated with the FilmLight’s Truelight colour management system ensuring colour accuracy. Baselight is resolution independent, expanding creativity and flexibility through the use of unlimited primary and secondary grades and multiple soft-edged, spline shapes.
Optical Art, based in Hamburg, is one of the leading feature film post facilities in Germany, that have been early adopters of Baselight. The company has integrated Baselight into its “Digital Lab” as an alternative to a Specter System, recently having put it through its paces on a current German feature film.
Harald Lehmann, Managing Director, Optical Art comments; “The Baselight system is today’s best answer for grading systems in the world. It offers a great alternative in terms of quality, flexibility, tools and price. We are convinced from using it in real-life productions and from the close relationship that we have with FilmLight support, that this is the future for film technology.”
Product Information
- Film style grading tool, calibrated in printer points with toe, shoulder and gamma controls, gamma with a variable pivot point and saturation
- Telecine style grading controls – shadows, midtones and highlights (hue and master), range pivots and saturation
- Hue shift grading
- Linked grades for repeatable ‘look’ with material used more than once within job/scene
- Secondary grading through combined chroma/luma keys, multiple soft edged
- Bezier shapes and imported rotoscoped mattes
- Bezier keyframe interpolation of all parameters e.g. shapes, grades, filters and mattes, over time with selectable interpolation
- Advanced freeform matte shape features (multiple curve grouping, curve cloning, animated transforms etc.)
- Logical operators to combine multiple shapes and keys
- Filtering of image or secondary keys
- Support for formats with non-square pixel aspect ratios – e.g. Cinemascope
- Grain suppression [not in preview]
- Simple allocation of UI controls to physical devices (pen and tablet, trackballs, jog wheels)
Pricing And Availability
Baselight is available now at an introductory price of €75,000.
Contact – Deepa Parbhoo ([email protected]) +44 20 7292 0400
