Highly anticipated films such as Elvis relied on Blackmagic Design gear throughout both production and post, with the film using Pocket Cinema Camera 6K for pick up shots and DaVinci Resolve Studio for on set grading, online editing and final color grading.
Summer blockbusters and breakout independent projects alike continued to use DaVinci Resolve Studio for their post production needs, including films such as Top Gun: Maverick, Nope, The Black Phone and Crimes of the Future.
Summer films that used Blackmagic Design cameras include:
- Poser DP Logan Floyd used URSA Mini Pro 6K G2s;
- Three Headed Beast Director and DP Fernando Andres used Pocket Cinema Camera 4K;
- Watcher DP Benjamin Kirk Nielsen used Pocket Cinema Camera 6K to capture VFX and news footage; and
- The Wrong Place DP Peter Holland and Second Unit DP Laura Nolan used Pocket Cinema Camera 6K for extensive second unit
Summer films that used Blackmagic Design products for editing and VFX:
- Elvis Editors Jonathan Redmond and Matt Villa used DaVinci Resolve Studio for the conform and grade, as well as UltraStudio capture and playback devices within their offline editing pipeline;
- Endangered VFX Supervisor Alex Noble of Wild Union Post used DaVinci Resolve Studio within his VFX pipeline;
- Neptune Frost Assistant Editor Skylar Zhang used DaVinci Resolve to create dailies as part of the editing pipeline;
- Resurrection VFX Supervisor Alex Noble of Wild Union Post used DaVinci Resolve Studio within his VFX pipeline;
- Samaritan VFX Supervisor David Lebensfeld of Ingenuity Studios used DaVinci Resolve Studio within the VFX pipeline; and
- Where the Crawdads Sing Editor Alan Bell used UltraStudio HD
Summer films that used DaVinci Resolve Studio for post production include:
- Allswell graded by Nicholas Lareau of Nice Shoes;
- Barbarian graded by Sam Daley of Light Iron;
- Beast graded by Stefan Sonnenfeld of Company 3;
- Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids co produced by NBCUniversal Syndication Studios and Believe Entertainment Group and graded by Sal Malfitano of Nice Shoes;
- The Black Phone graded by Supervising Colorist Nat Jencks of PostWorks New York and Additional Colorist Jason Fabbro of Picture Shop;
- The Bob’s Burgers Movie graded by Philip Beckner of FotoKem;
- Bullet Train graded by Dave Hussey of Company 3;
- Cha Cha Real Smooth graded by Nat Jencks of PostWorks New York;
- Crimes of the Future graded by Bill Ferwarda of Company 3;
- Don’t Make Me Go graded by Philip Beckner of FotoKem;
- Elvis graded by Colorists Kim Rene Bjørge and Kali Bateman and Supervising Colorist Brett Manson;
- Emily the Criminal graded by Walter Volpatto of Company 3;
- The Janes graded by Ken Sirulnick of Goldcrest;
- Jurassic World Dominion graded by Stefan Sonnenfeld of Company 3;
- The Man from Toronto graded by Stefan Sonnenfeld of Company 3;
- Neptune Frost graded by Catherine Pantazopoulos, and Nicolas Perret on behalf of Lobster Films;
- Nope graded by Greg Fisher of Company 3;
- Poser graded by Ori Segev using DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel;
- Resurrection graded by Nat Jencks of PostWorks New York;
- Sharp Stick graded by Nat Jencks of PostWorks New York;
- Thor: Love and Thunder graded by Jill Bogdanowicz of Company 3;
- Top Gun: Maverick graded by Stefan Sonnenfeld of Company 3; and
- Watcher graded by Stephen Nakamura of Company
Summer films that used Blackmagic Design products for production include:
- Beast DIT Lentsoe Mamatela used DaVinci Resolve, UltraStudio 4K Mini and DeckLink Mini Monitor playback card;
- The Black Phone DIT Jason Johnson used DaVinci Resolve Studio, Videohub routers and UltraStudios;
- Emily the Criminal DP Jeff Bierman used DaVinci Resolve Studio on set for grading select shots;
- Flux Gourmet DIT Richard Strong used DaVinci Resolve Studio for on set and dailies work;
- The Forgiven DIT Daniel Alexander of Digital Orchard used DaVinci Resolve Studio for on set and dailies work; and
- Samaritan DIT Stuart Huggins used DaVinci Resolve, ATEM Mini Pro ISO live production switcher, MultiView 16 monitor, Smart Videohub CleanSwitch 12×12, DeckLinks and UltraStudios.
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