I have been a software developer since 1985, solving problems for publishing houses,
the printing industry, photo agencies and audio studios.
Since 2014 I have
been very busy creating the fastest and most flexible pipeline tools for all kinds
of data the movie industry has to deal with. From 3d data, images, video, photogrammetry, lidar to hardware-level access to DSLR and industry CV cameras, indexing and, not the least, bringing decades of experience in color workflows into modern movie and game production.
Where my expertise will help you:
RAW level image procession: I "see RAW", having developed one of the fastest debayering/demosaicing pipeline tools on the market to "re-rawing" images, RAW-level denoising, lens-distortion calibration, CA correction to masking/compression on RAW level data to protect the maximum detail possible from any digitizing source studios use.
My Streampix SEQ thumbnail plugin for Windows (Linux on request) provides Explorer based thumbnails like for any image format users are accustomed to, no external tools required. This system is currently in rewrite to support more studio-typical fileformats and provide the fastest, seemless and integrated overview on data possible.
What data do you need to preview, thumbnail or mass-pipeline audit? Let's talk!
I speak color backwards, forwards and non-linear. With over two decades of hands-on experience in the printing industry, I understand additive and subtractive color models, gamuts, linearization, neutral spaces, linear and gamma workflows. I can bring camera data from various sources into the same color range and match colors before and after conversion.
I provide audits for existing or planned color workflows, crash-courses on any level of operation from decision making, cutting costs (wrong/non-matching color costs days of work and money!) to capture operators, wranglers, lighting crews and more.
I help creating workflows and tools to nail color issues, exposure clashes and help with finding out where that damned noise is coming from.
My guiding principle is to first understand what is at stake, what the core issues are and what needs to be resolved or fixed before we get into bells and whistles.
My job is to enable those who create the Pretty Pictures to do their jobs.