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Reader SurveyColor of Nitris
Nov 1, 2004 12:00 PM, By Michael Goldman
Avid's DS Nitris HD system was used to finish Going Upriver and for all final color correction work.
Avid's DS Nitris HD finishing system continued to push into the film mastering realm on a recent documentary from filmmaker George Butler — Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry. The film is not the first feature documentary digitally mastered on Nitris (see “Indie Intermediates” in the February 2004 issue), but it is believed to be the first 35mm wide release to rely exclusively on Nitris for all final color correction in addition to the final digital assembly, according to Brandon Bussinger, online editor at Orbit Digital, New York.
Going into the project, Bussinger had questions about whether the Nitris color correction tools were powerful enough for a theatrical release DI. “One thing I ran into was the need to borrow from one color channel and use the properties of that color channel in another color channel because there were so many formats on this project, and much of the archival footage had degraded,” he explains. “I found channel blending is easy to do with Nitris' color correction tool.” He also found that the color correction functions were useful for bringing consistency to footage shot over 40 years in dozens of film and video formats.
Orbit also used Nitris (version 7.0.1) to conform edits, titles, and graphics, then up-rezzed the entire piece to HD in two separate passes (one for video footage and one for film footage) using a Teranex Xantus 6RU multi-format converter, and auto-conformed those pieces back into Nitris, where the final assembly and color correction were handled by Bussinger. He then created an HD master from which a film print was struck at EFilm, Hollywood.
