Avid and FilmLight have announced a strategic partnership that will see a new Baselight-powered colour experience put natively into Avid Media Composer, “marking a major step toward a more connected colour pipeline for post production.”
“This partnership reflects how our products are actually used – by specialists collaborating to create some of the world’s most compelling film and television content,” said Rich Camp, Media Composer Product Manager, Avid. “By bringing FilmLight’s expertise deeper into the Media Composer workflow, we’re giving editors a native color experience with powerful tools directly in the timeline. That means editors can cut and craft their timeline while working more seamlessly with colourists, so more time and focus stays where it matters most: the story.”
FilmLight Co-founder Steve Chapman added: “FilmLight has always focused on creating colour tools that fit seamlessly into post production workflows. Our collaboration with Avid allows us to combine strengths and deliver new levels of color creativity and accuracy to the editorial experience.”
The new partnership will focus on bringing Baselight-powered colour capabilities deeper into the Media Composer experience, “so colour feels like part of the edit, not a separate step bolted on at the end.” The new tie up is also about keeping colour decisions open and connected throughout production, “helping teams move more fluidly between editorial, review, grading and finishing.”
Avid and Filmlight say the move will also extend FilmLight’s colour technology to a broader community of Media Composer users, “while preserving the depth, precision and control required by professional colourists and finishing teams inside the traditional Baselight environment.”
The partnership is designed to help creative teams carry colour decisions through production more seamlessly instead of treating editorial and colour as separate stages connected by exports, renders and conforms, “For editors, that means greater confidence in the timeline. For colorists, it means creative decisions can be reflected instantly between Media Composer editorial and Baselight finishing environments. For facilities and studios, it creates a workflow that can scale from editorial color through online and delivery, including renderless roundtrip with full Baselight for the highest-end finishing needs.”
Jon Creamer
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