Mar
FilmLight has announced an upgrade to its Baselight system, with improved tools for color correction and 3D work.
In this new version, 4.3, improvements have been added to the rendering processes, including a “Rendering Background” that works automatically at idle times, reducing waiting times in the preparation of the material for final output.
An “Intermediate Cache Strip” has also been added, which allows to make a selection of what is to be rendered, allowing it to be rendered with a sorted grouping or on a given layer. In processes that require debayering, this new feature ensures that imported RAW images are only converted once.
Another enhancement is an automated tracking tool called “Object Tracker”, which allows the user to select an object and the software will automatically select its boundaries, graphically representing several tracking points. Position, scale or rotation tracking can be selected.
To provide a fully customizable configuration that adapts to each of the different tasks, the interface can now be displayed on up to three monitors, displaying any of the panels or tools on them and being able to change them easily and quickly. “Built-in Scopes is another new feature that makes the most of this last factor. It includes vectorscope, RGB and YCbCr Parade, and waveform. These scopes can be configured to perform image readout before or after the application of a LUT. They also signal with an indication when levels are out of norm.
The tools for 3D work have been improved and expanded. Functions for automatic convergence adjustments or alignment are included.
In addition to these, there are also other new features in the gallery, such as the “Drag-n-drop” tool (to perform multiple operations by simply clicking and dragging thumbnails), metadata display below the thumbnails of the shots or “YCbCr Grade” (to control luminance and chrominance separately).
Here you can see all the new features in detail.
Baselight version 4.3 will be unveiled at NAB along with Baselight for Final Cut Pro which was already announced in early February.
Although Final Cut X was released almost a year ago, Filmlight has so far only released the version for Final Cut Pro 7, as it is still the most standardized.
The way to import and export to Baselight is through XML, and then you can choose to render from the same system or return the material to FCP.
In addition to Baselight, the Truelight color management system, also from FilmLight, is also included.
The tools are completely based on the original Baselight, allowing multi-layer corrections, RGB and HSL curves, possibility of making secondaries or chromas, different filters, etc.
In this page you will find all the information about its characteristics.
It is available for $995 from the Filmlight website. Here you can download the 14-day trial version.
