Color Grading

Here is how this works in practice. Creative grading for productions finishing in Ireland routes through the Dublin and Belfast feature-finishing bench led by Egg Post Dublin (Gary Curran's principal Irish-feature suite with DaVinci Resolve Studio Advanced + Baselight + Sony BVM-HX310 + Dolby Vision HDR). Windmill Lane Dublin (combined audio and picture finishing with deep cinema credentials). Framestore Dublin. Yellowmoon Belfast for the Northern Ireland slate (Game of Thrones-era HDR finishing).

Here is the short of it. Common Travel Area cross-border routing into London's Goldcrest Post, Molinare, Company 3 London, and Picture Shop supplies the prestige global tier when the production's distribution and supervisor relationships call for it. The Irish colorist bench has shaped some of the most distinctive cinema palettes of the past decade. Banshees of Inisherin's desaturated Atlantic-coast palette (Achill Island + Inishmore), Belfast's monochrome with selective color (Branagh 2021). The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) natural-light Gaeltacht palette.

Here is the breakdown. Normal People's Trinity-and-Sligo texture grade, the Vikings ash-and-ochre look (the History Channel series shot in County Wicklow and County Dublin), and the GoT The North slate-grey palette across eight seasons.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Sessions run DaVinci Resolve Studio (the Irish cinema-finishing standard) and FilmLight Baselight in ACES color-managed pipelines or ARRI Reveal native workflows. Colorists work scene-by-scene with director, DP, and producer remote-working with via Streambox. Sohonet ClearView, or Resolve's Remote Grading. With deliverables encompassing Dolby Vision (HDR + SDR trim). HDR10 + HDR10+, HLG, Rec.709 SDR for broadcast, and DCI-P3 for theatrical DCP. Source material spans ARRIRAW, RED R3D, Sony Venice X-OCN, Blackmagic RAW, and ProRes 4444 XQ at 4K, 6K, and 8K resolution.

With monitoring on Sony BVM-HX310 and Flanders Scientific XM311K reference panels calibrated to PQ ST.2084 and HLG curves. Deliverables ship at Coimisiún na Meán + RTÉ Tech-Ops + BBC NI + Virgin Media + TG4 broadcast spec, Netflix Ireland office QC (with Dolby Vision needed for streaming flagships), HBO Max, Disney+. Apple TV+. Amazon Prime, and Sky Ireland.

Here is how the picture comes together. Plus DCP packages for Light House Cinema Dublin, Cineworld Ireland, IMC Cinemas, Movies@Dundrum, and the Galway Film Fleadh / Dublin Global / Cork Global / Belfast Film Festival / Dingle Film Festival theatrical-festival circuit. IFI (Irish Film Archive) preservation masters are produced alongside delivery for long-term archive preservation.