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What is a chip chart?

What is a chip chart?

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What is a chip chart?

- Hey there, I'm Robbie Carman. - And I'm Rich Harrington, and this week we're going to explore talking about a chip chart. Now, this is something that the photo industry has used for a long time, certain aspects of the higher end video and film communities have used these. And Rob, a chip chart is all about accuracy. Now, you make your living as a colorist, and how often does this stuff come in? Do you see this on a lot of footage? - Yeah, I mean, this is a chip chart right here, right? They come in a lot of different styles, that we'll explore a few different styles. It used to be back in the days, when I was working on a lot of film-based projects, that would be (mumbles) over to video tape and that kind of thing, you'd have a lot of high end DPs and camera assistants using chip charts, and the idea behind a chip chart is that later on in post-production, or doing traditional color timing, photo chemical color timing, later on with obviously video color correction. - [Rich] Yeah. -…

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