Creative Grading - Or why a new way of broadcast camera control is needed

In the early days of television, camera shading was required to compensate for technical imperfections of the equipment. But today, camera shading is required to achieve a certain look and style or to adapt the camera's capabilities to a given lighting situation. — New formats such as HDR, WCG, 4K, IP and new workflows require more functions to be controlled simultaneously and/or interactively, and it becomes very difficult to oversee all the settings. But tools available for camera shading today are still very much the same as in early days of television; linear controls, trying to keep up with today's nonlinear reality. — The latest still photography graphical applications use a different way of controlling the look of an image, and a broadcast camera control solution which leverages these developments will benefit from new ideas and the new skills grown with these solutions. It's time for a change and creative grading is delivering this change. It's a completely new concept for broadcast camera applications and has the potential to change the way camera shading is done now, more than it ever has before. — This paper will explain the background of today's camera shading solutions and shows how it should develop in the future, based on extensive customer feedback in addition to lessons learned from other widely used image control applications.

Published

2018-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

Creative grading, image acquisition, CMOS imaging, camera shading, UHD, 4K, HDR, WCG, IP, image processing

DOI

10.5594/M001836

ISBN

978-1-61482-960-7