webinars

Join some of the most creative artists in the industry as they show you how they use SCRATCH and SCRATCH Lab to create the world's best stories.

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Webinar Archive

  • 09 February 2012 - VFX In The Color Bay
    SCRATCH
    Leandro Marini, founder of Local Hero Post, addresses the history of DI color correction, including the transition to digital and how much VFX can be done in the DI bay. He runs through projects using SCRATCH, including how to remove a boom from a shot, perform makeup and beauty work, and replace an entire sky.
  • 24 January 2012 - Get a Film Look Without Shooting Film
    SCRATCH
    Jerome Thelia, co-founder of Merge Group (NY), demonstrates the technique used in the making of Shawn Christensen's “Curfew” (January 2012), which was shot in RED MX, digitally graded in SCRATCH, and recorded out to film stock to achieve the best combination of grain structure and colorimetry.
  • 10 January 2012 - Working with SCRATCH in a Pipeline
    SCRATCH
    Mike Seymour of fxphd looks at the challenges of working in a multi-suite, modern day workflow. Rather than just using SCRATCH to complete jobs, he will show how it works with a variety of other systems and remains as a flexible backbone to your pipeline.
  • 15 December 2011 - Building Efficient Data Pipelines for Feature Film Production and VFX
    Lab
    Join Ken Locsmandi, VFX Artist and Founder/President of Filmworks/FX, as he details his best practices for building highly efficient VFX dailies and versioning pipelines. Kenny demonstrates how he used SCRATCH Lab as the production hub for features such as Red Riding Hood, The Tourist & White Space.
  • 6 December 2011 - Taming Luminance in a Digital Dailies Workflow
    Lab
    Are your dailies images too saturated, desaturated, or don't work for the Web? Join John “Pliny” Eremic, COO and chief of post-production at Offhollywood New York, as he guides you through SCRATCH Lab to solve the most common "freak-outs" for production dailies.
  • 27 October 2011 - Como realizar un Music Video con SCRATCH
    SCRATCH
    Acompaña a Leo Lovera, colorista y vfx artist, de la empresa Moving Forward Studios, en Miami, en su demostracion de tecnicas y trucos de como ha utilizado el SCRATCH para el music video del cantante Pitbull acompanado por T-pain "Hey Baby (Drop it to the Floor).
  • 3 November 2011 - Digital Intermediate for File Based Productions
    SCRATCH
    Explore the ever-advancing role of Digital Intermediate in today's era of digital productions. In this webinar, Emery Wells, founder and CTO of Katabatic Digital, focuses on the state of the art of file-based workflows from image acquisition, to editorial and VFX integration, to color grading and finishing.
  • 12 October 2011 - DITs Demystified
    Lab
    On set and on location, Digital Imaging Technicians (DITs) are transforming the way digital films are being made. In this webinar, we take a look at how the DIT's on-set role has dramatically changed and how directors, DPs and budgets can benefit from the right tools in capable DIT hands.
  • 9 August 2011 - Using Color to Convey Emotion with ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH
    SCRATCH
    In this webinar, Parke Gregg, editor, color-grading and DI artist, shows us how he used ASSIMILATE'S SCRATCH DI tools to help realize Director Jeff Nichols' vision for the award-winning feature, "Take Shelter", the psychological thriller, to be released by Sony Pictures Classics.
  • 30 June 2011 - RED’s EPIC HDRx Workflow in SCRATCH
    SCRATCH
    Leandro Marini, founder and DI Producer at Local Hero Post and Blair Paulsen, founder of 4-K Ninjas, demonstrate the best practices for photography and post-production workflows of RED EPIC RAW and EPIC HDRx files with ASSIMILATE SCRATCH.
  • 24 May 2011 - Create a Killer Music Video with a SCRATCH Grade and Finish
    SCRATCH
    Colorist and VFX artist Leo Lovera of Moving Forward Studios and Director David Rousseau demonstrate tips and tricks used to finish the music video Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor) by Pitbull, featuring T-Pain.
  • 14 July 2011 - Solving Digital Capture Workflow with the RED using SCRATCH
    SCRATCH
    Mike Seymour - Emmy nominee, AFI winner, and early RED and SCRATCH adopter, reviews the challenges faced by shooting on the new RED cameras and shows just how easily you can streamline productions using SCRATCH.