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West Post Digital, a boutique postproduction facility specializing in HD and SD online finishing and color correction, recently completed work for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition--After the Storm. The work was for a series of four shows featuring rebuilding projects in Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas following major destructive hurricanes.
West Post Digital had been handling online finishing for the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition reality series since its premiere in 2003. "We've been able to streamline processes to where we can completely finish an entire show in about 24 hours," says West Post Digital co-owner Kenny Fields.
It was this ability to make "Extreme" deadlines that led producers to select the facility to complete work on the special editions. The group did all the finishing process--assembling, conforming, and color-correcting the shots, as well as titling, in standard definition. The assembly/conform/titling was done on an Avid Symphony system and a Symphony Nitris running on a Unity. Meanwhile, the group performed the color grading on a da Vinci 2K system.
According to colorist Paul Roman, the ability to color-correct the show in ...