Jason Bowdach CSI: Reverse Engineering Color With A Creative Mindset

Accelerate your post-production career: https://mixinglight.com Full episode notes and additional links: https://mixinglight.com/color-grading-tutorials/colorist-jason-bowdach-pixeltools-color-timer-podcast/ Buy the Color Timer Shirt, now for sale: https://vincenttaylorcolor.myshopify.com/ === Today, I will be speaking to Jason Bowdach. Jason is a fellow contributor here on Mixing Light. He is a colorist and online editor with an impressive CV that includes major networks such as Fox and Disney. Jason creates a suite of colorist tools through his company, PixelTools. Jason shares what inspires him to create software offerings for the industry and his approach to a new project. He also has an interesting view on AI / Machine Learning and its likely impact on our industry. This is putting the shoe on the other foot at last. Jason has his very cool podcast, Color & Coffee, on which I was a guest, so now it’s time for Jason to answer some of my questions! Outside of Pixel Tools and his own grading work, Jason also teaches about color and post-workflow, so he keeps fairly busy, to say the least. - - - Editor: Rich Roddman Executive Producer: https://mixinglight.com Podcast Home: https://colortimerpodcast.mixinglight.com - - - Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:29 - Starting the Timer: What is Pixel Tools? 05:27 - How LUTs inspired PixelTools' first product 08:08 - How do you reverse engineering a LUT? 11:36 - How Jason got into DCTLs 14:53 - Exploring filmic contrast 18:20 - What is Jason's take on AI? 20:23 - Closing remarks