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The short film “Lure” got its final color correction tonight at Tunnel Post in Santa Monica in preparation for its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.  The grading was done to the captured HD camera original footage from the offline, miniDV Final Cut Pro EDL.

After some fixes having to do with the offline/online conversion, we were on our way to grading the image in Final Touch.  Final Touch is a software based, color correction system that includes the usual accouterments like primary and secondary color correction, power windows, setting storage, etc.  Cutting to the chase, here are some of my first impressions from working with Final Touch…  The one big advantage I could see is the random access to the footage and the ease of moving from FCP (or I’m sure any other edit system) to grading.  The biggest disadvantage is its inability to play the footage in real-time.  In short order I have no doubt that the program’s shortcomings will be dealt with.  For now, I like it just fine.

Look into the trade magazines or production related websites and you’ll likely see some reference to Tunnel Post.  They’re rising star on the indie DI front.  Teig, at Tunnel, helped with the offline-to-online fixes and also did the color correction in Tunnel’s downstairs bunker.

Thanks a bunch to Tieg and Alan for their help with this project.  Can’t wait to see it on the big screen!