ABSTRACT
On some smaller productions, the DIT may be concerned with nothing more than downloading media files; in this case, they are more properly a data manager, digital acquisition manager, data wrangler or similar terminology. Grading is a creative process where decisions are made to further enhance or establish a new visual tone to the project including introducing new color themes, films stock emulations, color gradients, and a slew of other choices—in other words. In addition to separate controllers for each segment of the grayscale, most applications allow the cinematographers to draw curves for the image—to independently manipulate the response curve, usually with Bezier controls. The log controls have one other difference from lift/gamma/gain, and that is a fourth set of color balance and master wheel controls: the offset control, which lets the cinematographers make adjustments throughout the entire tonal range of the red, green, and blue channels.
