Color Specialist

Role Description

- Color Matching & QC:

- Conduct meticulous color matching between stills and video footage, ensuring consistency across all deliverables.

- Identify and correct color shifts, banding, and artifacting in images and videos.

- Ensure seamless color continuity across multi-camera shoots and composited elements.

- Color Analysis & Correction:

- Use waveforms, vectorscopes, histograms, and false color tools to assess and adjust color balance.

- Perform primary and secondary color grading to enhance image quality while preserving natural tones.

- Develop and apply Look-Up Tables (LUTs) for consistent color reproduction.

- File Handling & Technical Compliance:

- Work with TIFF, JPEG, PSD, EXR, RAW, and log footage formats, ensuring correct color space conversions.

- Maintain color accuracy across SDR and HDR deliverables, understanding Rec.709, Rec.2020, ACES workflows, and gamma curves (sRGB, Gamma 2.2, Gamma 2.4, etc.).

- Ensure deliverables meet broadcast and digital platform color compliance standards (e.g., Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Adobe RGB, DCI-P3).

- Software & Hardware Proficiency:

- Proficient in DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, After Effects, Nuke, and Capture One.

- Familiarity with color-managed workflows in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and Baselight.

- Work with calibrated monitors (Eizo, Flanders Scientific, BenQ, etc.) and hardware colorimeters (X-Rite, Spyder, etc.) to maintain accuracy.

- Quality Assurance & Documentation:

- Develop and maintain color reference guides, style guides, and best practices for the production team.

- Conduct visual and instrument-based color assessments to ensure consistency in print, web, and video formats.

Qualifications

- 3+ years of experience in color correction, grading, or QC for video and image production.

- Strong understanding of color theory, color perception, and human visual psychology.

- Deep knowledge of ICC profiles, CMYK vs. RGB workflows, and display calibration techniques.

- Experience in handling log, raw, and HDR formats with an understanding of film emulation techniques.

- Ability to differentiate subtle hue shifts, white balance inconsistencies, and exposure mismatches.

- Excellent attention to detail with a methodical approach to quality control and troubleshooting.

- Strong communication skills to collaborate with creative teams, post-production, and clients.