Phil Strahl C.S.I.

Phil Strahl C.S.I.

@philstrahl.bsky.social

🐘 @phil@mastodon.social Senior Colorist with Red Bull Media, Workflow Architect, VFX guy, tutor & self-proclaimed nerdy Jack of all Trades. CSI member; PVA certified. He/his.

75 Followers 5 Following 22 Posts Joined Sep 2023
1 day ago
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Fellow #colorists, I'm sure you've come across this game in your timeline: Spot where the color changes

www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

I'm certian you can do better. And, boy, never knew how dirty my phone screen was πŸ˜…

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3 weeks ago
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You know what would really be useful in #Premiere or #Resolve? Having a warning indicator when a clip you pull onto your timeline will overwrite/replace another that's outside the current view.

Here, I made a mock-up.

#postchat #postproduction #editing #videoeditor

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1 month ago
Screenshot of the pop-up menu when right-clicking in the gallery stills pane. The mouse pointer hovers over "Copy Grade: Copy All Node Layers" which has a tick mark in front and an arrow pointing at it.

Colorist quick tip when working Resolve: To retain any node cache status (auto/on/off) when copying a grade via middle-click:
1) Right click in the gallery pane
2) tick "Copy Grade: Copy All Node Layers"

Glad I finally figured this out! πŸ˜…

#colorist #resolve #videopost

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2 months ago
Screenshot of my Outlook inbox with 9 people responding with automatic replies that they are out of office.

Oh, the joys of working between Christmas and New Year’s and sending out emails πŸ˜…

Hope you all had a great* 2025, can't wait for 2026!

* not too horrible

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3 months ago
Hugh Jackman with a colour wheel face

Nobody:

My Brain: Hue Jackman

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3 months ago
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Girl Climber (2025) ⭐ 8.6 | Documentary, Sport 1h 23m

Lots of thing happening so I almost missed the North American release of Girl Climber which I graded. The low-light shots benefited from NeatVideo 6 and Topaz helped with reducing some highly compressed archival stuff.

www.imdb.com/title/tt3643...

#colorist #colorgrading #climbing #documentary

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4 months ago

As a video production professional I can say that emoji in files are definitely a thing for at least a year and were the cause of countless grueling shifts trying to figure out, why a render would crash πŸ’€

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4 months ago
A rather complex node tree in Resolve. We got Layer mixers, Splitters, Mergers, OFX, key mixers, etc.

The result is worth all this, I swear! 🫠

#colorist #resolve #colorgrading

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1 year ago
Table listing "Running time in Minutes" and "Number of Shots" by year starting from 2010 to 2024. In 2024, I graded 29110 shots, with a total runtime of 1873.2 minutes. In total, i graded 361515 shots with a total runtime of 26247.2 minutes

What a year! In 2024 I graded almost 30k shots. I hope 2025 will be a little quieter πŸ˜…

#colorist #colorgrading #postchat

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1 year ago

I should probably post more about #colorgrading since this is my new social home. What hot takes from the color suite would you be interested in? 😊

#postchat

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1 year ago
Photo taken with a Samsung S23 Ultra. It's a long shot of a bus in front of an illuminated parking lot at night in fog. It was taken with the phone's default camera app. The same photo but graded "cinematically" with a strong orange/teal look.

Color grading in a nutshell: Making images look nice and giving them a look that emphasizes the story and mood.

#color #colorist #colorgrading

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1 year ago
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Internship Video Editing - Wals - Red Bull Jobs Austria Hello and welcome to this unique opportunity to join our international, award-winning post-production team at Red Bull Media House in Austria. With the aim of developing your creative and professional...

Are you #videoeditor looking for an internship in Austria? Then have a look at our opportunities for 2025 here at Red Bull:

jobs.redbull.com/at-de/wals-i...

#postproduction #video #editing

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1 year ago
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Colorist RGB Parade Waveform Readout by Philipp Strahl | Redbubble Instantly start a conversation with anyone in video post production by donning htis design of the readout of a Red/Green/Blue waveform readout. But be prapared for some very nerdy discussions involvin...

You can get it from RedBubble:
β–Ί www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1633...

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1 year ago
Promotional image of my waveform parade readout design in red, green, and blue against a black background on a mousepad Promotional image of my waveform parade readout design in red, green, and blue against a black background on two black T-shirts Promotional image of my waveform parade readout design in red, green, and blue against a black background on two badly rendered mugs Promotional image of my waveform parade readout design in red, green, and blue against a black background on a zipper pouch.

Oh no, I made another design for my #colorist colleagues and other folks in #postproduction. Wearing this on a T-shirt is a conversation starter, believe me! πŸ˜…
#posttalk #video #editing

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2 years ago
Screenshot of a Mastodon toot by Bernd Kilga reading "Good easter-egg in the credits of the new #Disney movie #Wish: The names of the stereo composers (who decide on the depth of the 3D effect) were all elevated to the front."

I love this! #stereoscopy

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2 years ago
Screenshot of the welcome screen of the latest Adobe Premiere reading: Get more out of Premiere Pro - Make colors pop. See how to fast-track your color correction and give your video a polished…"

Pop goes the colorπŸ˜…

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2 years ago
Photo of a color suite with a big, fat, red Media Offline on the monitor (and timeline)

And how's your Friday going?

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2 years ago
A node tree showing a junction of a side-tree only used for pulling mattes via qualifiers. Their alpha is then fed into individual nodes where the grading happens. The results are combined in a parallel note at the end.

Today’s #Colorist Tip: Try to work modular, especially when you can expect changes.

For example, with this node tree I can tweak certain colors completely individually from the look in case the client wants to experiment but their brand colors should remain intact.

#colorgrading #color

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2 years ago
A DaVinci Resolve node tree with 19 nodes and various edges running netween them.

It's one of those days πŸ˜…

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2 years ago

I can only imagine! This must've taken hours. πŸ™ˆ

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2 years ago

I’m used to looming deadlines, but when you have 1 shift to deliver and the other end starts the transfer of your data late, you know you're in for a ride. Especially when you have to factor in conform, rendering, upload on your side, download+unzip on the client side again, etc.

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2 years ago
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F1 Drivers Vs WILD Japanese Game Show! πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix, Formula 1 team @redbullracing raced @alphataurif1 in TINY Honda Kei Trucks. Max Verstappen and F1 teammate Sergio Perez, ta...

The turnaround time on this one was wild: To-color delivery of a 60 GB ProRes4444 from Japan; I stared my 4.5 hrs of #colorgrading on an mp4, of which I lost 1 hr trying to online the ProRes; rendering; then 60 gigs to transfer back to Japan for final assemblyπŸ˜…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsNy...

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2 years ago

Hey thank you, Bill! Yeah, tools made quite some strides since the good old 3-Way Color Corrector in FCP for sure! 😊 There’s just so much more you can do now, I was faster in the old days πŸ˜…

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2 years ago
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Hello World! I’m Phil, digital colorist, post-pro workflow & VFX, and full-time nerd.
You might have seen my work in:
"Β‘Vamos, Vegas!"
🏎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoHE...
"The Old World"
🚲 www.redbull.com/int-en/films...
"DRIVEN"
πŸ‚ www.redbull.com/int-en/films...
and others

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