FLIP, the new FilmLight system

We are just a few days away from NAB and FilmLight has added new additions to the line of color management and manipulation products that will be on display, starting with FLIP.

It is a new system designed to work with it on set, allowing the creation of LUTs and color corrections to generate certain looks before reaching the post-production stage.

It works via HD-SDI connection, between the camera and a monitor, and employs a powerful GPU to accelerate graphics processing to generate and modify these looks in real time. In addition to the GPU, it also features FilmLight’s Truelight color management tool, combining its 3D LUTs technology with Baselight ‘s correction capabilities (secondary corrections and masks can be performed).

It has full interoperability with Baselight, being able to export and import LUTs and corrections from one to the other system without any problem. When exporting the looks, it can be done with embedded metadata or as a single file (in ASC CDL or in other formats for non-Baselight systems).

It is possible to work with the Avid Artist Color controller and an external DVI monitor.

FLIP can create and store an unlimited number of presets of looks and filters to work with. Thanks to all these tools, directors and cinematographers can establish a certain look before they even start shooting, refine it on set and carry it through to the post-production processes, always following the same line of work.

In addition to FLIP, a near-set dailies creation tool called Baselight Transfer, capable of processing 4K dailies in real time, will also be presented. It is designed to optimize the new workflows required by digital cameras, such as ARRI Alexa, Sony F65 or RED Epic. This system offers automatic color matching between the correction made on FLIP and the camera’s RAW material, to ensure absolute integrity with the look that was established on set. This does not mean that at any time the RAW files are affected, the looks are simply created as metadata, not destructively.

Thanks to the new editions that have been released recently, Baselight is also available to editors and visual effects technicians. For this reason, the Nuke version and a preview of the Avid Media Composer version will also be presented at NAB, in addition to Baselight version 4.3 itself.

Finally, they will present a preview of FLUX, a new data management platform created to handle post-production requirements with complex materials (such as 100:1 ratios).

At the moment this is all the information we have about FilmLight’s news, but here is the page with all the information about FLIP.