Production services.
Founded in 2007, Nice Dissolve is a boutique production company based in Brooklyn. We provide camera rental, conforming, color grading, transcoding, workflow support and other services to indie features, music videos and commercials.
Nice Dissolve bought one of the first 5% of Red cameras available to the public. We are Red camera and workflow experts.
Revolution 2.0.
Nice Dissolve is at the forefront of the second digital revolution — the move from high-cost specialty equipment to expertly integrated commodity hardware and software.
Our deep understanding of today's high-powered information technology enables us to separate fact from industry hype, and design workflows that achieve industry-leading results at a fraction of the cost.
Recent Projects:
- Narrative Feature
- Director: John Daschbach
- Cinematographer: Joe Foley
Services provided: MX Red camera, camera tech, digital workflow, dailies, online edit, color grading. Co-produced by Nice Dissolve.
- Art Installation — More Info
- Artist: Laurie Anderson
- Cinematographer: Jody Lee Lipes
Services provided: Red camera, color grading, digital workflow.
- Narrative Feature — IMDB Page
- Director: Peter Askin
- Cinematographer: Sean Kirby
Services provided: Digital workflow, dailies, online edit, color grading.
- Narrative Feature — IMDB Page
- Director: Philip Gelatt
- Cinematographer: Frederic Fasano
Services provided: Digital workflow, dailies, online edit, color grading, promotional materials.
- Narrative Feature — IMDB Page
- Director: Andrew Dosunmu
- Cinematographer: Bradford Young
Services provided: Red camera, digital workflow, dailies, online edit, color grading, promotional materials.
- Documentary Feature — IMDB Page
- Director: Daniel Zana
Services provided: Color grading, digital workflow.
We've also provided camera, color grading and workflow services on shoots for Amnesty International, General Mills, Cochlear, Unilever, Procter & Gamble and E*Trade, as well as artists including 50 Cent, Ludacris, Juelz Santana, Chris Brown, Keisha, Kid Cudi and Nona Hendryx.
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Color Grading.
Nice Dissolve has a fully-equipped Apple Color based grading suite that can finish projects in any format up through 2K DPX — the standard finishing format for Hollywood features. Color supports virtually all of the features of high-end systems like DaVinci; primaries, secondaries, power windows, curves and more. It even supports native access to the full raw color space of Red camera files.
For Red footage, we can also perform best-light grading of native media via our RedRocket, with real-time playback in production-quality 1080p. For projects that don't require extensive secondary color correction, this allows color and transcoding to be condensed into one step, at considerable time/cost savings.
Digital Dailies.
Based around our own custom-in house software for syncing audio and building dailies sequences, Nice Dissolve's proprietary dailies processing workflow can ensure fast turnaround for your digital dailies and editorial media, whether you plan to watch dailies on an HD projector, in your living room, or on your iPhone.
We now also offer iPad dailies — along with iPad rental — so you can have easy access to all previous days' footage (up to 45 hours) on set at 3x the quality of DVD — on a handheld device with enough battery life for an entire shooting day.
Digital Workflow + Storage.
Don't lose time (or footage!) to poor data management techniques. We've invested hundreds of hours in developing integrated approaches to digital workflow, from preproduction through on-set footage downloading to offline and online editing.
We can also develop backup/verification strategies to keep your data safe, build custom-specced RAID systems to store it, and help plan how data will flow from set into editorial, how it will be managed across different locations/facilities during post, and how it will move from application to application.
Red Camera Rental.
Rent from the Red experts. Nice Dissolve can provide complete Red packages at virtually any budget level, experienced Red camera and data techs, and on-set gear for downloading and reviewing footage.
New Mysterium-X Red cameras are now available.
Red Transcoding.
Nice Dissolve offers maximum-quality Red footage transcoding services with fast turnaround times — at prices about half standard industry rates. We'll even pick up and drop off hard drives in many parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn at no additional charge (terms apply).
All of our transcodes are done at full quality through the RedRocket accelerator — don't settle for half-quality software-based transcoding!
Red Workflow.
Red cameras can record images with astounding quality, capturing raw sensor data that allows enormous flexibility in post. With the wrong workflow, however, you leave substantial image quality on the table and risk post-production delays.
We've developed comprehensive Red workflow options that extend from developing looks in preproduction, to downloading footage on set, to wrangling footage through complex post pipelines. We know how to structure efficient workflows that preserve image integrity throughout.
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(718) 569-8325.
Or find Us.
We’re located at the heart of Brooklyn’s burgeoning production community, within easy walking distance of film/arts destinations like OfficeOps and 3rd Ward as well as two popular studio facilities. We're off the Morgan Ave. L stop — 10 minutes from Union Square.