Pay-Per-Clip
Pricing for Color Grading
With a solution for every budget, we strive to make the world a more vibrant place.
★★★★★
“Thanks for the extraordinary color correction! Perfect & beautiful”
How can you offer such Great Rates?
Color grading is usually a really, really pricey kind of movie-magic.
Pick the Quality
We use different levels of Quality to get you the best-looking images for the budget.
Is the budget or the sky the limit?
Pick the Speed
If you are not in a rush, we will craft the color of your films in our down-time between feature films, top commercials, and series. Thus, getting you the best service at the most convenient time.
Base Price: 180 $ per Batch
Submit as many Clips from as many different projects as you like at one time.
The Base Price includes Ingest, Conform, Review, Technical Feedback, Export, and Upload – everything except the actual color grading.
Quality Selection for Color Grading
Pay per Clip, fair and simple. Pick a quality that suits your needs.
1. Stakeholder Quality
The most fancy-sounding quality tier aims to make stakeholders happy:
- The price is unbeatable.
- The images will look mostly good and balanced to the untrained eye.
- The grading will pass technical broadcast QC.
2. Artist Quality
If you’re emotionally involved in your film, you’ll want to make the images shine, giving them the respect they deserve for being shot with great lighting, attention to detail and proper exposure.
3. Hollywood Quality
Welcome to the fun part! This is what we love most: Turning beautifully shot images into memorable silver-screen magic.
This is the only tier that includes a feedback loop!
1 $ per Clip
You’ll have a color graded film that ticks all the boxes – in a very minimalist way.
4 $ per Clip
We will go beyond neutral balance to treat each shot as the individual they are, work with your suggestions for emotional tone in individual scenes, and add the finest film stocks and grains out there.
16 $ per Clip
Using all the tricks at the colorist’s disposal, we’ll dive into detail and distill the essence of each shot. And we’ll iterate with you along the way.
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Hollywood
Set white balance
Set exposure
Balance shadow- and highlight-detail
Balance skin tones
Match shots within a sequence to each other
Author in 2k resolution or less
Author in SDR
Handle footage in different formats and resolutions
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Work with your look references
Add film stock and other cinematic looks
Add global secondary corrections
* e.g. adjusting sky-blue hues and skin-tone saturation
Match details within a sequence to each other
* e.g. matching skies and grass and clothes individually
Add grain if desired
Add local corrections through masks
Author in 4k resolution or less
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Iterate once based on your Feedback
Support the edit by guiding the eye from shot to shot
Match color palettes from CI or art direction
Add animated effects
e.g. balancing auto-exposure errors
Add fancy effects
e.g. lense flares
Reduce noise
Author in any resolution, including VR 360
Author in HDR Dolby Vision or Hybrid Log Gamma
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Clip = one single video file from In to Out point, with a maximum duration of 10 seconds. Longer clips will be charged as 1 clip per 10 seconds.
1. Stakeholder Quality
It’s not ugly, and it’s cheap!
For the technically-minded among you: We will use only a single grading node for each shot to create neutrally balanced images.
2. Artist Quality
Makes our colorists happy, makes eyes happy, and hopefully makes you happy too!
3. Hollywood Quality
Lead your viewers into a world of visual pleasure.
- Show off your corporate identity color palette.
- Improve the edit with attention-guiding magic.
- Tackle tough shots that may seem unsalvagable.
- Iterate with us to get shots to match your vision.
- Get highest-quality denoise and restoration.
Noise Reduction
Tackle one of the most distracting issues with footage shot in low-light environments.
Corporate Identity
Showcase your values by consistently matching signature colors in your video to CI or an art direction palette.
Going Above and Beyond
In Hollywood, it’s not about what doesn’t work, but about making it work.
Frequently Asked Questions
Feel free to reach out in case you are pondering something else.
What if the Estimate is Off?
You will only pay for the finished color graded files that are actually completed.
Estimates just help to get an idea of the costs, and are based on an average of 15 clips per minute of edited video.
Only the actual amount of clips will be invoiced after delivery.
I can't give Feedback on cheap Quality Tiers?
Correct. Only Hollywood Quality includes a conversation with our colorists.
However, Artist Quality allows you to submit references to show us the look you want.
All results will be delivered as-is to the best of our conscience, abilities and understanding of your intentions, based on any supplied references.
Rest assured that we will put our decades of expertise into delivering a grade that matches the specifications you send us.
How many Clips per Day can you Color Grade?
Estimate to get about 400 clips per day done on rush orders. If your timeframe is even tighter, we will get several artists working on the same timeline, to meet your deadline.
How Long Until I get my Files if I don't pay for Speed?
We deliver within a fortnight.
You are welcome to let us know a desired delivery date no sooner than a week from now, by adding a note to your order.
If your videos are shorter than ten minutes, you may even receive them in a few days. We will send you estimated times for each individual job via email after booking.
Can I Upgrade Quality only on a few Clips?
Yes!
If you would like to add special looks, color match corporate colors, or iterate on some shots, you can always upgrade to Artist or Hollywood Quality on single clips.
When Speed is of the Essence
Choose between getting things done when they’re done and now:
- We deliver at no extra cost within a fortnight.
- Or get things done asap at double the price.
2 x Total Price
Depends on artist availability. After you book, we will revert to guarantee capacity. If no artist is available within your desired timeframe we will refund you 100% or we can finish the color grade in regular time at the discounted rate.