Thorough Control System™: A Method of Color-Accurate and Contrast Consistent Film Transfer to Video Dailies

The “Thorough Control System”™, from Gamma & Density Co., establishes a method to help cinematographers arrive at the “look” they desire during a film-to-tape transfer session and maintaining artistic and technical control over their images. The system begins on the set and establishes standards of communication with the telecine colorist in the film-to-tape transfer process. Now, instead of subjective and debatable opinions regarding images, the cameraman and telecine colorists are speaking a common language. — The key element of the system, the Gamma=lC Cinematographer's Control Chart, has one distinguished feature that sets this chart aside from any other charts: the idea of connecting brightness of the scene with scientifically calculated IRE unit equivalents printed right on each corresponding gray field. This chart creates a proper connection between the brightness of the scene and luminance of the electronically converted film signal. With the use of the system, the telecine colorist is able to transfer dailies with accurate and consistent contrast, color, and tone renditions. This continuity in dailies takes the guesswork out of the transfer set-up process.

Published

1996-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00111

ISBN

978-1-61482-925-6