Baselight 6.0
Pure colour, infinite creativity

Redefining the possibilities for
professional colourists
Baselight 6.0 extends the palette of creative colour grading.
Go beyond traditional tools with revolutionary takes on
primary grading, look generation, tracking and much more.

These features coupled with Baselight’s unique and flexible
layer architecture – now enhanced with implicit alphahandling and expanded into a multitrack timeline – give you
the creativity, confidence and control to handle even themost complex of projects.

X Grade without secondaries
Since the advent of colour correction, artists
have developed numerous methods ofsecondary isolation to constrain the colours
being altered. But just how far could you go in a
primary tool without mattes or keys, and how
much quicker and productive could that be?

BeforeX Grade provides the answer. It allows you
to make multiple localised and complex
corrections in a single layer – without having tocreate a key or matte. It’s a totally new methodof creative primary correction, as revolutionary
as Base Grade was for HDR grading.
Working within its own perceptual colour
space, X Grade has a unique scope displaythat represents the colours contained within
the image and any edits that you have applied
to it. By processing zonal transforms without
the use of 3D LUTs, it allows multiple smoothand complex alterations to achieve naturally
beautiful pictures. Folds, edges, clipping... they’re
all consigned to the past. That means you canpush your shot as far as you want it to go – andthen apply that correction to similar shots on
your timeline.

After

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Chromogen brings look development to the modern age
Look development is not grading. It’s more
like engineering a new camera film stock,because a look has to work across a broad
range of source material under different lighting
conditions. Traditional grading tools, no matter
how good they are, are just not designed forthis work. And LUT generators are for thebygone age of limited dynamic range andrestricted deliverables.

Stages can be easily reordered, bypassed & reset

The Chromogen look development tool has
been produced by FilmLight’s image engineers
alongside the world’s foremost colour creatives,and is designed from the ground up to produce
scene-referred looks. It operates in FilmLight’s
new opponent colour space, specificallydeveloped to meet the challenges of modern
wide-dynamic-range camera data. And it
combines advanced colour sector manipulation
with stages – addressing characteristics suchas Colour Saturation, Colour Crosstalk, Highlight
Bleaching, Brilliance Reduction and more – thatcan be easily reordered.
FilmLight has recreated existing looks using
Chromogen to act as a guide to build your own,
as well as allowing you to make nuanced edits
to your established favourites. The finished lookcan be saved as a preset for easy access, andit can of course be exported as a LUT so you
can use it for on-set previsualization. Back in
Baselight or Daylight it is applied as a floatingpoint transform, which means it automaticallyworks across the full range of input material
and desired deliverables.

BeforeAfter

Chromogen look development

Accelerate beauty work with Face Track
Stories are told through people, so it’s nosurprise that considerable time in the grading
suite is spent on beauty work. It is an intricate
task to improve the aesthetic of a single pose,and therefore incredibly time-consuming torepeat that process for every single appearanceof each character.
Enter Face Track. Using an underlying machinelearning model Face Track finds all the faces ina scene and tracks them, adjusting smoothly
as each face moves and turns throughout ashot. Face Track attaches a polygon mesh toeach face, which allows perspective-aware
tools such as Paint and Shapes to distort withthe mesh.

Face Track

The major gain in productivity comes with thesimple application of Face Track across thewhole timeline – copy and paste the correction
to all desired instances of the same face, oreven other faces if appropriate. And if there are
multiple faces in the destination shot, Face
Track finds the most similar one automatically.

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A new vision for the Baselight timeline
Visualise
Baselight has a unique and powerful layer compositing
timeline. We’ve redesigned that timeline in 6.0 to provide aclearer view on the underlying node tree that it represents.
Blue line indicatesflow of image data

The processing tree overlay can help understanding whenconstructing multiple input composites. You can also
fold layers to simplify complex timelines, or entire shots
if editorial work is required. A folded layer displays visual
identifiers to let you know what it contains at a glance,
and it automatically unfolds when one of the elements isselected on a control panel too.

White lines indicate
matte data

Folded layer icons
indicate operators
within layer
Timeline processing tree

Edit

Green lines show handles

Editing icons

Editorial functionality has been
completely revamped. The new edit
mode is shot-aware, and when enabled
it behaves like a traditional editor,
providing editing functions with themouse on the timeline or via keyboard
shortcuts. To edit multiple shots atthe same time, just make a sweep
selection on the timeline.
Editing mode

Organise

BypassSquashEdit lock
Grade lockTimeline tracks

Squashed track

Baselight 6.0 adds track support tothe otherwise free-form timeline.
This means that you can segment
sophisticated scenes – where multiple
people are handling different aspectsof the project such as editorial, colour,
stereo and so on – much more easily.
Use track bypass to quickly see theeffect of a particular track, or simply
disable one track in favour of anotherfor different subtitle versions.
Entire tracks can be ‘squashed’ too,
to let you focus on the parts of thetimeline that need your attention.
Coupled with this is a powerful locking
mechanism – lock down the edit sono accidental editorial changes arepossible, or alternatively lock down
the grade so that grade changes aredisabled.

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Look again at Curve Grade
Curve Grade has been completely reworked to provide
enhanced, colour-space-aware curve processing foraccurate, floating-point grading that is LUT-free andHDR‑ready.
A new perceptual RGB colour space gives you intuitive
control over RGB curves, even when working with scenereferred images with a lot of dynamic range – providingsmooth and accurate handles throughout. Alternatively,
curves can also be applied to the Exposure channel only,with the same chromaticity stability as Base Grade’sacclaimed zonal model.
The scale-based curves in Hue, Saturation and Exposure
are derived from FilmLight’s new opponent colour space,which also drives X Grade, the enhanced Hue Angle andlook development in Chromogen. These new scales arespecifically designed for image stability and perceptual
uniformity for scene-referred image processing.

BeforeAnd all of these enhancements are packaged in a neweasier-to-use interface.

After
Curve Grade adjusting an image with (a) extended range RGB curvesand (b) a strong hue twist

Sophisticated composites via integrated alphaBaselight 6.0 now integrates alpha foreasy compositing. It is no longer treatedseparately like a matte, but is instead
passed through the compositing tree
along with the image data.
In this way, it is relatively simple tomake quite sophisticated composites– combining tracked elements andallowing many visual effects to be
finalised in the colour suite.

Alpha compositing

Scan, search and sort with ease in the new Gallery
In the Baselight 6.0 Gallery, sophisticatedsearching and sorting are second
nature.

Quick search
Saved filters

By adopting Baselight’s Shots View
metadata handling, grabbing an image
to the Gallery adds additional metadata
such as grab time, scene and record
timecode, and so on. These metadatafields can be combined into queries
that can be saved as filters, or you canperform a quick text search on-the-fly.

Gallery with metadata display

Column view
Metadata display

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Colour refined
A wealth of new and enhanced capabilities...

Sharpen Luma

BeforeThe new Sharpen Lumatool provides more
sympathetic and cleaner
image sharpening.
It is colour-space-aware,and limits its strength inhigh contrast areas toreduce ringing, and in low
contrast areas to reducenoise and compression
artefacts.

After

Sharpen Luma

Lens Flare

Orderable stages

Baselight now provides
an integrated Lens Flareeffect – rather thanthrough an external
plugin – that allows flares
to be built up in simple
individual stages, which
can be combined tocreate sophisticated andcomplex results.

Before

After

These can be realistic,
based on highlights in theimage and real lenses
including anamorphic, or
can be pushed further for
creative intent.

Lens Flare

Bokeh

Original

Bokeh is a simulated outof-focus camera effectthat can be combinedwith a depth matte
to produce beautifully
natural looking shotswith a more filmic depthof field.

Depth matte

You can use it to produce
circular, polygon or star
bokeh with or without amatte.
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Colour refined (continued)

Loupe
Quickly and accurately adjust tracking
points, shapes and so on in context
without zooming the image.
Enable the Loupe with a keystroke tomagnify the area of the image thatyou’re working on. It also includes anoffset mode so you can see the original
pixels at the same time. You can evenchoose to have Loupe automatically
activated whenever an action is
performed that requires accurate
placement.

Loupe

Hue Angle
The Hue Angle keyer, an integral partof Baselight since the beginning,has been upgraded to use a new,perceptually uniform colour space.
It provides more consistent, accurate
keys, and the substantially improved
user interface includes scopes andhistograms to make it even easier tocreate the best key possible.

Hue Angle

Machine Learning Optical Flow
The new machine learning Optical Flow deeply integrates the RIFE (Real-Time Intermediate Flow
Estimation) AI model to greatly improve the quality of retimed shots.

Continually enhanced

Specifications

Take a look at the new Baselight 6.0, and the first thing
you’ll notice is the new cleaner user interface, improved
layout, and ease of customisation as panels are scaled andmoved.

To use Baselight 6.0, you must be running:

But just under the hood are many enhancements toimprove the working day of the professional colourist,including T-CAM v3, support for HDR UI on macOS, andmany more...

»FLOS 8.4 or later on Generation V, VI, VII or VIII
hardware with a minimum VRAM of 11GB per GPU.
It is also recommended that the user interface GPU
is upgraded to a graphics card newer than an NVIDIA
NVS 510 or K600 to enable the use of the latest
NVIDIA drivers»

macOS 12 – 14 on Intel, or Apple Silicon

To use the new machine learning features, you must also:»FLOS 8.4 or later: Increase the minimum VRAM per
GPU to 16GB for 2K and 24GB for 4K»macOS: Use Apple Silicon platforms only with atleast 24GB of unified memoryBaselight 6.0

Baselight 6.0 user interface

Main and alpha images by Tikkho Maciel on Unsplash

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