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Kays Alatrakchi wrote:I assure you that other colorists in the UK or elsewhere are not doing that as part of their color grading work.
You don't go to AE, Boris Continuum Complete has Mocha, built in, within either Avid Symphony or Resolve, if you have that plug in and it is ubiquitous here in every facility. I'm sorry but unless you work regularly as an online/grading editor, in the UK, alongside other such editors, day in day out, like I do, you can't tell me how it is done here, you can only speak for yourself, where you work. I blur, track, Animatte etc.etc. regularly, as part of my normal online/grading work, day in day out - so too does every other professional online grading editor, here in the UK, in Broadcast TV.
There are those who are purely 'Colourists', and do not online, as I have already mentioned and they are not editors. But they work on features, high end TV drama and sometimes big budget high end Netflix type documentaries. I think Marc above is such a top pro and this is no different to what you outline in most places. But even colourists have to be able to fix shots in other ways than pure colour, occasionally - this is why Resolve has such comprehensive tools, for that, on the color page too. The vast majority of TV here, though, is finished by people like me and 'VFX', is run of the mill in your work.
Let me give you an example, just to be clear: I am currently off lining on a big TV series and I was accidentally sent the online review notes, for one of the shows, since we have the same first name and I am known for both. I went to the facility site where it is being graded/onlined, since his name rang a bell. He is a Dolby Certified Colourist, described as such. Yet these notes were typical of what I get and included things like bluring. Clearly in this capacity he is not working as a pure 'colourist' and clearly he knows and can function, like I do, when doing this work, i.e he can fix pictures with all the tools at hand as well as grade.