Arab Telemedia Adopts FilmLight Colour Control Pipeline |
Arab Telemedia Productions has been producing television for the Arabian market for the past 30 years. In 2008 it won the first Emmy awarded for a foreign telenovela, titled ‘Al Ijtiyah’, or ‘The Invasion’. The company handles all aspects of a show’s creation, from idea development and production to post and final delivery. |
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In line with the way the Baselight grading environment functions, the colour grades FLIP imposes on set are not burnt in, but stored as metadata in FilmLight’s Baselight Linked Grade, or BLG, file format - the component that enables looks to be exchanged between all FilmLight systems. The BLG format contains all grade information, including Truelight cubes or models of your colour space, conform metadata and keyframes, and can be passed to their Baselight TWO colour grading workstations in post-production where the final grade is finessed. |
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TV series ‘Waed Al Ghareeb’ |
Also, with the new free-to-read capability in Baselight for Avid, which is now available and means that grades can be read accurately without purchasing a license, last minute grade changes can be supplied in an updated AAF to Media Composer systems without rendering or licensing. |
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FilmLight Baselight Editions for Avid plug-in. |
“We first used this set-up on ‘Waed Al Ghareeb’, or ‘The Promise’,” said Talal Awamleh, CEO of Arab Telemedia Group. “This is a high-value 30-part episodic and we wanted it to have great production quality, even in a tight timescale. We talked to the FilmLight team at IBC in 2014 and realised the potential of the renderless, metadata-driven colour environment they had built using Baselight tools and the BLG workflow. |
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‘Waed Al Ghareeb’ |
Arab Telemedia is currently producing two drama series, ‘Malik bin Al Rayeb’ and ‘Rakan Bin Hithleen’, both of which will be aired during the next Ramadan, June to July 2016, and are using the same FilmLight and Avid workflow. www.filmlight.ltd.uk |