Codex has announced Codex Review Live, a new color management and look-creation system enabling set-to-post color confidence for feature and high-end episodic TV productions. Codex will demonstrate Codex Review Live during NAB 2015 in Las Vegas, at its new and larger booth at the front of Central Hall–located at #C1817–as it continues to focus on more than simply recording for motion pictures and broadcast production.
Codex Review Live features an easy-to-operate user-interface and enables users on-set to create and preview looks and color grades directly from multiple live HD-SDI camera feeds. These looks and grades are applied automatically when generating deliverables via Codex Review, or can be exported in various formats (ASC-CDL for example) for application downstream in the workflow. Crucially, the looks and grades delivered by Codex Review Live can be used to communicate the creative intent from the set, and form the starting point for color-consistent dailies and post-production deliverables.
Codex Review Live works seamlessly with Tangent panels for interactive on-set primary color grading, and third-party 3D LUT boxes, such as the Fujifilm IS-mini. The system can control and manage up to 32 3D LUT boxes, installed in-line with the HD-SDI outputs of the camera, and supply on-set monitors with color graded HD-SDI signals. Codex Review Live has simple controls to adjust a range of color parameters including offset/power/slope/saturation and is ASC-CDL and ACES-compliant.
Codex Review Live is optimised to work with Codex Backbone, the company’s secure digital production pipeline and media management system, where looks and user-defined look-related metadata are securely managed in the “Look Library” for collaborative use in downstream image-processing tasks.
“Whilst Codex products are known for streamlining the safe transition of images and metadata from production into post, there’s also need to establish equally secure color pipelines–so that the look created on-set is exactly what appears in the VFX and editorial deliverables, and in the DI grading suite,” said Brian Gaffney, VP business development at Codex. “Codex Review Live is a simple addition to the workflow, that supports creative color decisions and provides confidence in color consistency from the set and beyond.”
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More