SGO Mistika Managed Color-Grading and Stereo-3D Tweaks Across Multiple Deliverables

More dimensions means more deliverables – editing and finishing facilities are commonly adding stereo 3D to their versioning checklist. London editorial house Preditors handled post-production on the concert doc Kylie: Aphrodite – Les Folies Tour 2011 by leaning on the SGO Mistika post-production system to maintain color and stereo-3D decisions across a raft of deliverables that included a two-hour 3D digital cinema version, a 3D Blu-ray, a seven-part version for Sky 3D and a 2D HD version for broadcast on Sky HD. (It was shown on the UK’s Sky 3D and Sky One and in cinemas across the UK this summer.) Preditors ownere Reg Wrench and James Collett edited the project in Final Cut Pro and stereographer Ross Copeland finished it in the Mistika.

Copeland could bring in an EDL for a new version of the show and re-conform the Mistika timeline, applying all of his original color-grading and stereo-3D work correctly to the footage. Geometric alignment of individual stereo shots happened automatically, using Mistika’s new Equalize feature. “I was able to do three times more shots per hour than before,” he said in a prepared statament. “The new Mistika Equalize tool gives you the option to match the grade between the eys on a pixel-by-pixel basis, which can eliminate differences such as flares or reflections, as well as exposure and color-balance differences, all with one click.”

CREDITS

Project: Kylie: Aphrodite – Les Folies (3D and 2D)
Client: Blink TV / Sky
Directors: Marcus Viner and William Baker
Producer: Tom Colbourne
Edit: Reg Wrench and James Collett
Post Production Company: Preditors
Post Production System: SGO Mistika
Stereo 3D grade / Online: Ross Copeland
Audio: Toby Alington, Riverside Studios