• Color

    Color
    Color grading is the last step in the digital film pipeline yet it is one of the most important facets of the filmmaking process. A color grading session with a professional colorist is the key to stunning, visceral images that grab your audience and keep their attention focused on your work. Katabatic’s fully managed color pipeline and raw data workflow ensures the highest color fidelity with high-resolution footage up to 5K. If you want creative, original imagery with the best technical expertise, you want color by Katabatic.
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    K/Lab

    The conversion of production footage into dailies and off-line editing footage can have disastrous results if performed incorrectly. An improper workflow risks incorrect time code, frame rate, and color information. The specialists at Katabatic Digital expertly prepare hundreds of hours of dailies each month. Data lab services turn any camera format into dailies in ProRes and DNxHD for Final Cut Pro and Avid. Their expertise in digital film formats will safeguard your entire post workflow with high-quality footage that you will be able to watch virtually anywhere there is a screen.
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    Online/Finishing

    The on-line and finishing specialists at Katabatic combine expertise in editing, design, color, visual effects and digital formats to assemble final projects. When Katabatic’s finishing experts prepare a project for its final mastering, the process can include title design and motion graphics, complex visual effects, color manipulation, and mastering to professional tape formats. Katabatic’s finishing suite is a professional environment with high-end tools for viewing and evaluating your project before it is output to your choice of a variety high-end tape and digital formats.
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    Visual FX

    Invisible. Beautiful. Polishing. Eye-popping. Katabatic’s visual effects artists do it all. From paint and beauty work that nobody will know about to incredible CG animation, camera tracking, and particle effects, Katabatic’s visual effects grace numerous commercials, music videos, and features.
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    Cameras

    Katabatic Digital provided New York City with one of the first Red One digital cinema camera rentals and has since grown to be one of the premier providers of Red camera rentals and expertise. With the addition of the 5K Red Epic, Katabatic continues to live at the forefront of digital cinema camera providers.
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    Genius Bar

    The problem with groundbreaking is that it is hard to know where to stand. Katabatic has been dealing with groundbreaking digital cinema systems since 2007. Every day, the specialists at Katabatic advise filmmakers on the workflow of digital film production with high-end cameras like Alexa, Phantom, and Red or inexpensive solutions like DSLR and GoPro. From camera settings on-set to data archiving, conversion and post, the experts at Katabatic can consult with you on every aspect of digital production.