[Tig] FC color 1.0

[Alexis Hurkman]

On Jun 13, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Jeff Kreines wrote:

>>> At the risk of tooting my own horn, I wrote the Color manual
>
> I haven't read it all yet -- but one section was really odd -- the
> part about convention film grading, where it referred to "gluing"
> film together.  Was that yours as well?

Yes. I was referring to the process of conforming the negative prior  
to an actual film color timing session, where the film negative is  
cut apart and reassembled into A and B rolls in preparation for  
optical printing. I never participated in this process personally  
(the only film I worked with in the early nineties was as an offline  
editor on a flatbed, I avoided negative conforming as too harrowing  
for my fragile nerves), but I understand it required scraping part of  
the emulsion from half of a frame in order to cement the pieces  
together. I'm sure many folks out there know this process way better  
then me. I mentioned it in a section meant to convey some of the  
history of film grading and video color correction, to give new users  
some perspective on the process.

-Alexis