Baselight ONE “ACCESS

FilmLight has released the Baselight ONE “ACCESS” package, a promotion that will run through mid-September and offers Baselight ONE hardware and the latest software version for less than $50,000.

With this initiative, FilmLight aims to make its high-end color correction and finishing system available to more companies.

Baselight ONE, with a 3U rack chassis and 26 TB of storage in RAID 6, is a (hardware) solution that provides the necessary requirements for working with color correction and finishing. It is complemented by software, which offers a complete set of tools for these functions.

It is based on the same hardware, and incorporates the same features in software, as its companions TWO, FOUR and EIGHT; and now, thanks to this package, it is much more cost-effective.

Among its main qualities, we can find an interface with a logical and clear work system, which facilitates new users who want to learn how to use it. Baselight ONE is designed to work with the Blackboard 2 controller (from FilmLight), although it also supports other third-party controllers, such as Avid Artist Color.

It provides native support for most formats, such as DPX, R3D, ProRes or DNxHD, and several can be mixed in the same timeline. One of its features, “Multi-view display”, allows you to view material from several timelines (from the same or different projects) simultaneously, so that you can quickly make comparisons.

It can also work with RAW files from digital cameras, with or without additional hardware (for acceleration or decoding) and with OpenEXR, both for input and output.

As in other color correction systems, such as DaVinci for example, it has a gallery where you can save certain “looks” and apply them within the same project or share them among others.

For conforming, it supports EDLs (in various formats), AAF and XML.

In addition to the hardware and software version 4.3, which you can read about in this article, the package also includes Truelight, FilmLight’s color management system; the first year of technical support; and on-site training.