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Phil Strahl C.S.I.
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Senior Colorist with Red Bull Media, Workflow Architect, VFX guy, tutor & self-proclaimed nerdy Jack of all Trades. CSI member; PVA certified. He/his.
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Lots of thing happening so I almost missed the North American release of Girl Climber which I graded. The low-light shots benefited from NeatVideo 6 and Topaz helped with reducing some highly compressed archival stuff.

www.imdb.com/title/tt3643...

#colorist #colorgrading #climbing #documentary
Girl Climber (2025) ⭐ 8.6 | Documentary, Sport
1h 23m
www.imdb.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Reposted by Phil Strahl C.S.I.
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As a video production professional I can say that emoji in files are definitely a thing for at least a year and were the cause of countless grueling shifts trying to figure out, why a render would crash 💀
jtullock.bsky.social Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 29d
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
Screen grab from Dropbox saying Emojis in file names are finally here!
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
philstrahl.bsky.social
The result is worth all this, I swear! 🫠

#colorist #resolve #colorgrading
A rather complex node tree in Resolve. We got Layer mixers, Splitters, Mergers, OFX, key mixers, etc.
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
philstrahl.bsky.social
What a year! In 2024 I graded almost 30k shots. I hope 2025 will be a little quieter 😅

#colorist #colorgrading #postchat
Table listing "Running time in Minutes" and "Number of Shots" by year starting from 2010 to 2024. In 2024, I graded 29110 shots, with a total runtime of 1873.2 minutes. In total, i graded 361515 shots with a total runtime of 26247.2 minutes
January 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
philstrahl.bsky.social
I should probably post more about #colorgrading since this is my new social home. What hot takes from the color suite would you be interested in? 😊

#postchat
November 24, 2024 at 5:18 AM
philstrahl.bsky.social
Color grading in a nutshell: Making images look nice and giving them a look that emphasizes the story and mood.

#color #colorist #colorgrading
Photo taken with a Samsung S23 Ultra. It's a long shot of a bus in front of an illuminated parking lot at night in fog. It was taken with the phone's default camera app. The same photo but graded "cinematically" with a strong orange/teal look.
October 28, 2024 at 9:06 PM
philstrahl.bsky.social
Are you #videoeditor looking for an internship in Austria? Then have a look at our opportunities for 2025 here at Red Bull:

jobs.redbull.com/at-de/wals-i...

#postproduction #video #editing
Internship Video Editing - Wals - Red Bull Jobs Austria
Hello and welcome to this unique opportunity to join our international, award-winning post-production team at Red Bull Media House in Austria. With the aim of developing your creative and professional...
jobs.redbull.com
October 24, 2024 at 2:40 PM
philstrahl.bsky.social
Oh no, I made another design for my #colorist colleagues and other folks in #postproduction. Wearing this on a T-shirt is a conversation starter, believe me! 😅
#posttalk #video #editing
Promotional image of my waveform parade readout design in red, green, and blue against a black background on a mousepad Promotional image of my waveform parade readout design in red, green, and blue against a black background on two black T-shirts Promotional image of my waveform parade readout design in red, green, and blue against a black background on two badly rendered mugs Promotional image of my waveform parade readout design in red, green, and blue against a black background on a zipper pouch.
July 31, 2024 at 6:01 PM
philstrahl.bsky.social
I love this! #stereoscopy
Screenshot of a Mastodon toot by Bernd Kilga reading "Good easter-egg in the credits of the new #Disney movie #Wish: The names of the stereo composers (who decide on the depth of the 3D effect) were all elevated to the front."
January 3, 2024 at 2:37 PM
philstrahl.bsky.social
Pop goes the color😅
Screenshot of the welcome screen of the latest Adobe Premiere reading: Get more out of Premiere Pro - Make colors pop. See how to fast-track your color correction and give your video a polished…"
October 23, 2023 at 7:11 PM
philstrahl.bsky.social
And how's your Friday going?
Photo of a color suite with a big, fat, red Media Offline on the monitor (and timeline)
September 29, 2023 at 4:31 PM
philstrahl.bsky.social
Today’s #Colorist Tip: Try to work modular, especially when you can expect changes.

For example, with this node tree I can tweak certain colors completely individually from the look in case the client wants to experiment but their brand colors should remain intact.

#colorgrading #color
A node tree showing a junction of a side-tree only used for pulling mattes via qualifiers. Their alpha is then fed into individual nodes where the grading happens. The results are combined in a parallel note at the end.
September 28, 2023 at 7:49 PM
philstrahl.bsky.social
It's one of those days 😅
A DaVinci Resolve node tree with 19 nodes and various edges running netween them.
September 27, 2023 at 6:49 PM
philstrahl.bsky.social
The turnaround time on this one was wild: To-color delivery of a 60 GB ProRes4444 from Japan; I stared my 4.5 hrs of #colorgrading on an mp4, of which I lost 1 hr trying to online the ProRes; rendering; then 60 gigs to transfer back to Japan for final assembly😅
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsNy...
F1 Drivers Vs WILD Japanese Game Show! 🇯🇵
Ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix, Formula 1 team @redbullracing raced @alphataurif1 in TINY Honda Kei Trucks. Max Verstappen and F1 teammate Sergio Perez, ta...
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September 22, 2023 at 8:55 PM
philstrahl.bsky.social
Hello World! I’m Phil, digital colorist, post-pro workflow & VFX, and full-time nerd.
You might have seen my work in:
"¡Vamos, Vegas!"
🏎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoHE...
"The Old World"
🚲 www.redbull.com/int-en/films...
"DRIVEN"
🏂 www.redbull.com/int-en/films...
and others
September 1, 2023 at 4:55 PM