FilmLight is to demonstrate remarkably powerful new functionality for its colour grading and management platform Baselight at IBC2018 (Amsterdam, 14–18 September, stand 7.B26). The latest software will be shown on Baselight grading stations, and also implemented across FilmLight’s product range, which includes Prelight for on-set visualisation, the Daylight dailies system and the expanding Baselight Editions range for editing and VFX.

For the 86th Le Mans 24 Hours/24 Heures du Mans, AMP VISUAL TV, a premier provider of support services for live and outside broadcasts, and CyanView partnered to enable AMP VISUAL to leverage the creative possibilities of specialty mini-cameras – without the image quality loss that is normally associated with the devices.

FilmLight is to stage one of its hugely popular colour tour masterclasses at IBC2018 (RAI Amsterdam) on Sunday 16 September. This intensive day of live presentations and practical discussions is designed to guide colourists, DoPs and the wider production and post industry through the opportunities and challenges that HDR and new delivery formats bring, via demonstrations of the exceptional colour management and finishing toolset in the latest version of FilmLight’s colour grading system, Baselight v5.

Boxer Systems, a leading a UK solution provider for the video, film and TV markets will arrive at IBC2018 fully prepared to help customers existing and new transform the perceived disruption permeating the industry into lucrative commercial opportunities.

Blackmagic Design today announced the Blackmagic eGPU, a high performance graphics processor for pro creative software such as DaVinci Resolve, 3D games and VR. Designed in collaboration with Apple, the Blackmagic eGPU features a built-in Radeon Pro 580, two Thunderbolt 3 ports, HDMI 2.0, 85W of charging power and four USB 3.1 connections. It comes in an integrated design that brings high-end desktop class graphics processing to MacBook Pro for professional video workflows, 3D games and immersive VR. And, the Blackmagic eGPU is the first to support Thunderbolt 3 displays.

The second series of National Geographic’s popular series Genius focuses on the extraordinary life of painter Pablo Picasso. Colourist Pankaj Bajpai at Encore in Hollywood was charged with creating the look that evoked the time and place as well as the art.

At NAB2018, FilmLight is launching BLG for Flame as the latest product in the popular Baselight Editions range. BLG for Flame is a Linux-only plugin for Autodesk Flame that applies a Baselight grade automatically, either from Baselight Linked Grade (BLG) files or directly from a Baselight scene.

To help colourists, DoPs and the wider production and post industry understand the opportunities and challenges that HDR and new delivery formats bring, FilmLight is taking intensive and specialist masterclasses on a world tour. Dates are already set for London (15 May), Mumbai (16 May), Hollywood (4 June) and Seoul (7 June), with more to be added.

Donbass, a new movie by Ukrainian writer/director Sergei Loznitsa, is to be shown as a work-in-progress version at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Post-production was to a tight timescale – shooting only wrapped in March – and Bucharest facility Digital Cube used a Baselight grading suite to ensure delivery while retaining full creative control over the look.

X-Rite Photo Europe, the specialist photo market distributor for X-Rite’s range of products, will be demonstrating on-stand colour grading tips at this year’s BVE 2018 (27thFebruary to 1st March) on the Color Confidence stand M26 with professional filmmakers Ollie Kenchington and Adrian Weinbrecht.

X-Rite Photo Europe, the specialist photo market distributor for X-Rite’s range of products, is offering a free Color Confidence GrafiLite worth £61.27 with every purchase of X-Rite i1Studio. This time-limited offer, which runs until 31st March 2018, delivers a saving of over £61.