Color grade & finishing
A filmic grade and clean finish on your locked edit — or mine. Conform, deliverables, and masters to spec.
For editors and producers who need the cut to look like cinema.
What you get
- Resolve grade from your media
- Look development & LUTs
- Skin-tone & sky management
- Noise / cleanup pass
- One revision round
- Stills & before/after frames
Deliverables
- Primary + secondary grade
- Shot matching & balancing
- Conform from your XML/EDL
- Deliverable masters (Rec.709 / HDR)
Recent color / finishing work
Common questions
Most work is priced per project from a clear scope (short-form from $220/clip, long-form from $650, commercials from $2,400). Documentary, color, and open-ended work can be a day rate or hourly ($95–$120/hr). You always get a fixed quote in writing before any work begins.
Whatever the platform needs: 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, and custom; H.264/H.265 for web, ProRes for masters, alpha ProRes 4444 for motion assets, burned-in or SRT captions, and HDR or Rec.709 masters. Tell me the spec and I’ll deliver to it.
You send footage via Frame.io, a shared drive, or cloud link — whatever’s easiest. I keep an organized project and a backup throughout. On delivery you get your masters plus, on request, the source project files and a full archive. Your footage is never reused or shared.
Commercial / Branded
Story-led brand films and ads. I take the assembly through grade, sound, and delivery — or step in for the cut alone.
Story from the rawDocumentary
Interview-driven story structure pulled from hundreds of hours of footage — the through-line, the act breaks, the pacing.