FilmLight to demo Baselight 5.0

The release includes an overhauled approach to HDR colour grading with some 50 new features designed to help colourists.

Baselight 5.0 also adds new paint and compositing functions which Filmlight said would make it the ideal hub for the complete finishing process.

FilmLight will also partner with Sony for an HDR demonstration using Sony displays and a Baselight with Slate control surface on the Sony stand.

Sessions at the FilmLight stand on productive workflows will be led by FilmLight workflow specialist Daniele Siragusano on Saturday 10.

They will show “the creative and economic benefits of future-proof workflows for today’s storytellers, which start with establishing a look, capturing it on set and refining it all the way through to the final grade.”

Siragusano will also introduce the new features in Baselight 5.0.

Wolfgang Lempp, founder and CEO of FilmLight, said: “We are seeing directors demanding new formats to realise their vision while producers are pushing for ever tighter timescales to get the content on screen.

“The solution lies in massively powerful tools allied to seamless workflows. We are leading the way with Baselight 5.0.

“Our new colour space architecture, for example, allows colourists to grade in a natural, photographic way, then instantly switch to the different colour spaces to create different versions with ease.

“And with our BLG (Baselight grade) metadata-driven approach, grading can start on set, continue through editorial and build to the final deliverables with seamless, render-free collaboration.”

For the first time in Europe, FilmLight will feature its premier hardware platform Baselight X alongside Baselight One and Two systems.

Baselight X is already in use at a number of sites including Deluxe and Dolby in Los Angeles and Toei Labo Tech in Japan.