Color Grading Services

Professional Color Grading Services

Color Grading for Whatever You Need

C&I Studios is an award winning production company with a dedicated color suite inside our 30,000 sq ft Los Angeles studio. Our colorists finish work for niche brands and household names alike. We grade the footage we shoot ourselves, and we grade footage delivered to us by other production companies, agencies, and independent filmmakers. With offices in New York City and Fort Lauderdale, we run supervised sessions in Los Angeles and remote review sessions for clients anywhere in the world.

Color grading is the final creative pass on your picture. Every shot gets balanced, matched to its neighbors, and shaped into a look that fits the story, the brand, and the screen it will play on. We grade in DaVinci Resolve Studio, the same software used to finish theatrical releases and streaming series, and we have been doing it on our own productions since 2006.

Cinematic

A grade should feel invisible and unforgettable at the same time. We build looks that serve the story, whether that is a rich, filmic image for a feature, a clean, bright palette for a product spot, or a muted, moody tone for a documentary. See the results in our work. Nothing is left flat.

Consistent

Footage from multiple cameras, days, and locations has to cut together as one piece. Shot matching, skin tone protection, and a locked color pipeline keep every frame in the same world, so your audience never notices a seam.

Color Is Emotion

The grade decides how your audience feels before a word is spoken. Warm or cold. Rich or restrained. Nostalgic or clinical. Long before anyone processes the dialogue, the color of an image has already told them how to feel about it. That is the power a good colorist puts in your hands. A real grade is not a filter or a preset. It is built shot by shot around your footage, your brand, and your audience. When you are ready to make your work feel as good as it looks, we bring the eyes, the suite, and the pipeline to get it there.

The Martial Artist

Feature Film Grade

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Our Color Grading Workflow

Look Development

It starts with a conversation and a few references. We talk through the mood of the piece, where it will play, and what the brand needs the image to say, then build the look on a handful of hero shots for your approval before touching the rest.

Conform and Prep

We bring your locked cut into DaVinci Resolve with the original camera files, RAW or log, so the grade works with the full dynamic range the camera captured rather than a compressed export.

Primary Correction

Exposure, white balance, and contrast get set shot by shot. This is the foundation. Every shot is brought to a clean, neutral starting point so the creative work sits on solid ground.

Shot Matching

Footage from different cameras, days, and lighting setups is matched so the edit plays as one continuous piece. Cut points disappear.

Secondaries and Skin

Isolated adjustments to skin, skies, product colors, and anything that needs its own treatment. Skin tones are protected first. Brand colors are held exactly where they need to be.

Creative Look

The approved look is carried across the entire timeline. Film emulation, split toning, texture, and grain are dialed in with restraint so the grade serves the story instead of shouting over it.

Supervised Sessions

Sit in the suite in Los Angeles and steer the grade in real time with the colorist. Directors, DPs, and brand teams are welcome.

Remote Review

Not in Los Angeles? We run remote review sessions for clients in Fort Lauderdale, New York, and anywhere else. You watch, we adjust, nothing waits for a flight.

Cleanup and Noise

Noise reduction, stabilization touch ups, and small fixes that keep the image clean without smearing detail.

Rec.709 and HDR Masters

Standard dynamic range for broadcast and web, plus HDR masters when the project calls for it. A color managed pipeline keeps the image consistent on a phone, a laptop, a broadcast monitor, and a cinema screen.

Deliverables

Graded masters in the codecs your distributor, platform, or agency asks for, with versions for social, broadcast, and web. Feature films move into our mastering and delivery service for DCP.

Raw Footage. Finished Look.

Every grade starts with a conversation about the look. We do not open a project and start turning wheels. Every grade begins with references, the mood of the piece, where it will play, and what the brand needs the image to say. Then our colorist builds a look on a few hero shots for your approval and carries that look through the entire timeline. You review a graded cut, we refine it together, and nothing is finalized until you sign off. Two rounds of revisions are included with every grade.

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DaVinci Resolve Studio

Every C&I grade is built in DaVinci Resolve Studio, the industry standard for color in feature films, television, and streaming. Node based grading gives our colorists precise control over every region of the frame. Camera RAW support keeps the full dynamic range of RED and other cinema cameras intact. A color managed pipeline makes sure what we see in the suite is what your audience sees on their screen. It is the same software we use to master feature films, applied to your commercial, brand film, or series.

8K RAW Gives the Colorist Room

Being a RED studio matters most in the grade. We film on RED Digital Cinema cameras, and that decision pays off most in the color suite. REDCODE RAW captures 16 bit color and more than 16 stops of dynamic range, so highlights that would clip on a lesser camera stay recoverable, shadows hold detail instead of noise, and skin tones can be pushed a long way without falling apart. When we grade our own footage we are working with the cleanest possible negative. When you bring us footage from another production, it gets the same care, whatever camera shot it.

The negative is only as good as the grade that finishes it.

What We Grade

Color grading at C&I Studios covers every format we produce and every format clients bring us. The question is always the same. What does this picture need to make the audience feel, and on what screen? The grade is built around that answer.

Go deeper into post production services for editing, sound, and finishing, or feature film mastering and delivery for DCP and theatrical masters.

Brand Films & Commercials

Broadcast spots, brand films, and product videos where the brand palette has to be exact and the image has to hold up next to the biggest campaigns on air. Commercial video production.

Feature Films & Series

Long form grades built for theatrical and streaming delivery, with a look that holds across every scene and every reel. Feature film and TV production.

Documentaries

Mixed cameras, mixed lighting, archival material, and interviews that all need to live in one honest, consistent world. Documentary film production.

Music Videos

Bold, stylized looks that push color as far as the artist wants to go while keeping skin and performance intact. Music video production.

Social & Digital Content

High volume content graded fast and consistently, so a month of posts looks like it came from one brand. Corporate video production.

Mastering & Delivery

Rec.709 and HDR masters, versioning, and DCP creation for festivals and theatrical runs. Feature film mastering and delivery.

Who We Work With

C&I Studios grades for global brands, advertising and marketing agencies, entertainment companies, and independent filmmakers. Recent client work includes H&M, Chaumet, Calvin Klein, P&G, Celsius, Sunbelt Rentals, SiriusXM, Mattel, and Anker, alongside directors, production companies, and agencies that send us their footage for color only. Whether you need a single spot matched to a brand guide or a feature film finished for festivals, the suite and the process scale to the project. We work with whoever needs our help. A national brand, a first time director, or a creator with a single video, if your footage needs color, we want to hear about it.

C&I Studios film crew on the House-17 masterclass set

Frame from a Celsius commercial of an athlete drinking a can of Celsius

House-17 masterclass cinema studio in Los Angeles

Color Grading in Los Angeles, Fort Lauderdale & New York

Los Angeles, the Suite

Our color suite lives inside the 30,000 sq ft Los Angeles studio alongside the edit bays and the audio room, with room for supervised client sessions. Video production in Los Angeles.

Fort Lauderdale

Our Southeast office. Fort Lauderdale clients review grades remotely or fly out to sit in the suite. Video production in South Florida.

New York

Our East Coast office, serving agencies and brands that need a colorist without a flight. Remote sessions run on your schedule. Video production in New York.

Remote color sessions are available anywhere in the US and worldwide. Tell us about your project and we’ll get back to you.

Q Guy

These stills are from Q Guy, a festival short film starring Bart McCarthy and directed by Tess McCarthy, graded start to finish. We were brought in for color only, on a tight turnaround, with one objective. Bring the film’s look in line with its narrative tone and festival standards. Each pair shows the flat camera footage on the left and our DaVinci Resolve grade on the right. Tones were matched across scenes, contrast was shaped, skin was refined, and the atmosphere of every location was built into one cohesive, cinematic look across the entire film.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between color correction and color grading?

Color correction balances exposure, white balance, and contrast so every shot looks natural and matches its neighbors. Color grading is the creative pass on top, where the look and the mood of the piece are built. Every C&I grade includes both, and correction always comes first.

How much does color grading cost?

Cost is driven by runtime, the number of shots, the camera format, the delivery specs, and whether you want supervised sessions or remote review. We quote flat, per project pricing after a short call. A thirty second spot and a feature film are very different jobs, and no project is too small to grade. For more detail read color grading services explained.

Can you grade footage we shot ourselves or with another company?

Yes. A large share of our color work is on footage other production companies, agencies, and filmmakers deliver to us. Send the original camera files, RAW or log, with a locked cut and we handle the conform. Any camera is welcome.

Do we need to be in Los Angeles for the session?

No. Supervised sessions happen in our Los Angeles suite, and remote review sessions are available for clients in Fort Lauderdale, New York, and anywhere else. You watch the grade, give notes, and we adjust while you are on the call.

What software and deliverables do you work with?

We grade in DaVinci Resolve Studio. Deliverables include Rec.709 masters for broadcast and web, HDR masters when the project calls for them, social and broadcast versions, and DCP through our feature film mastering and delivery service.

How long does a color grade take?

A thirty or sixty second spot is typically graded in a few days. A short film runs about a week, and a feature film runs a few weeks depending on runtime and review rounds. Two rounds of revisions are included, and tighter turnarounds are workable when the schedule demands it.

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