CLAi Color Grading Reel in 4k "The Art of Color"

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The CLAi Color Grading Reel demonstrates some of the techniques that I use, primarily within Da Vinci Resolve Pro, to bring new life to old ideas, save projects that have major problems, and simply make well produced pieces look spectacular... it's the art of Color Grading.
The goal is always the same, to make your film or video look as good or better than when you saw it in your head - before reality stepped in! I achieve this by combining creative solutions and innovative technologies to craft exceptionally effective programs of every type, size and budget.
Good color grading should be invisible, but it should bring a little something extra to every story. Some of the many steps that I take in color work include: color correction to bring each scene in the footage to a happy place, color grading shot to shot to remove unwanted visual spikes in the sequences, creating one or more looks to enhance the mood, using motion mattes to focus attention to better tell the story, and removing unwanted elements from a film or video.
Much of my work is shot in 4k or 6k RAW or Log (RED and Arri shot material is something of a speciality), and then usually mastered to both UHD 4k and 1080P for delivery in multiple formats for theater, television, computer screening, web Vimeo and web KZbin, with fine color balance tuning where this is needed.
Colorist projects always used to be local, but recently this has flipped 180 degrees, and grading doesn't need to be done locally any more, and so while we are in the South San Francisco Bay | San Jose | Monterey area we work with clients anywhere there is an Internet connection for immediate interaction and file transfers, and next morning courier service for hard drive transfers.
To find out more about the Full Video Production and Creative/Technical Services provided by CLAi in the San Francisco Bay area go to www.CLAi.tv​
To find out more about Chris Layhe’s Post-Production Film and Video Services as an award winning Independent Editor and Colorist Society International color grading specialist go to
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