Color Grading Services for Film, Commercial, and Documentary Work
Flexible finishing support for productions anywhere in the world, from first look development through final delivery.
Commercial Color Grading
Polished color for agencies, brands, and production companies. Match cameras, protect skin tones, shape the look, and deliver clean versions for web, broadcast, and social campaigns.
Documentary Color Grading
Story-first color for interviews, verite scenes, archival material, and mixed-location footage, with natural skin tone and consistent scene-to-scene matching.
Narrative Feature Color Grading
Feature-film color built around story, continuity, performance, and final delivery. Develop the look, match scenes, manage review notes, and prepare festival or distribution masters.
Color Correction:
Color correction involves adjusting the color and tonal balance of footage to achieve a desired look or to correct any inconsistencies in color caused by variations in lighting conditions, camera settings, or other factors. This process ensures that each shot within a scene matches seamlessly and contributes to the overall visual narrative.
Color Balancing and Calibration:
Achieve accurate and consistent color representation across all media platforms with our precise color balancing and calibration techniques. Enhance the visual appeal of your content and deliver a polished and professional look that captivates your target audience.
Shot Matching:
For multi-camera productions or scenes shot across different days and locations, Jay balances exposure, color, contrast, and skin tone so the edit feels continuous. The goal is a smooth visual flow that keeps the viewer in the story instead of noticing camera or lighting differences.
Creative Effects:
Our team of skilled colorists can add a wide range of creative visual effects to enhance your storytelling or create a unique visual identity for your project. These effects include but are not limited to adding vignettes, re-lighting scenes, performing beauty work, removing unwanted objects, adding film grain or texture overlays, removing noise, or providing stylized looks to evoke a specific era, mood, or artistic vision.
Format Conversion and Delivery:
Our Colorists ensure that the final color-graded footage meets the technical specifications required for distribution across various platforms, whether SDR or HDR, such as cinema screens, television broadcasts, streaming services, or online platforms. This may involve converting footage to different color spaces, resolutions, or file formats while maintaining the integrity of the color grade.
Collaboration and Client Feedback:
Effective communication and collaboration with directors, cinematographers, and other production team members are essential for achieving the desired visual aesthetic. Our colorists work closely with clients to understand their creative vision and preferences, incorporating feedback throughout the color grading to achieve the best possible results.
Turn Key Color:
Our colorists offer various services, including custom IDTs, show looks, CDL, and ODT packages for film and TV productions. We also provide DIT services such as transcoding and consulting for both large and small productions and dailies creation.
Quality Control:
Our team of colorists conducts rigorous quality control checks on the color-graded footage before final delivery. These checks ensure the footage meets the highest technical quality and visual consistency standards. The colorists review the footage on calibrated monitors, identify any issues or artifacts, and make adjustments to achieve optimal results. This process guarantees that the final product is of superior quality and meets the client's expectations.
