Jason Bowdach CSI: Reverse Engineering Color With A Creative Mindset

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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.

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Editor: Rich Roddman
Executive Producer: https://mixinglight.com
Podcast Home: https://colortimerpodcast.mixinglight.com

• (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