Situated in the burgeoning production community of Brooklyn, Nice Dissolve is a boutique production services company catering to the indie film market.
We offer aggressively priced packages of production and post services including camera rental, digital dailies processing, online/offline editing, digital workflow + storage consulting, color grading and HD screening facilities.
Nice Dissolve was among the earliest 5% of Red camera customers worldwide. We are Red camera and workflow experts.
- 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: Camera rental, digital workflow, dailies, online edit, color grading, promotional materials.
- Documentary Feature — IMDB Page
- Director: Daniel Zana
Services provided: Color grading, digital workflow.
Due to licensing and confidentiality agreements, some images are for illustrative purposes only and are not taken from actual projects.
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 the power of today's high-powered information technology enables us to separate hype from reality, and build low-cost workflows that are capable of achieving stunning results at prices more traditional facilities can't hope to match.
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 also supports native access to the full raw color space of Red camera files.
Because Color integrates with Final Cut Studio, bringing in timelines from Final Cut Pro is easier than with any other grading system, potentially saving your production thousands in workflow costs. We can also bring in EDLs from Avid and most other editing packages.
Inadequate upfront digital workflow and storage planning can cost you dozens of extra hours in post production, and may even put your footage at risk from data loss. Nice Dissolve has a strong information technology background, and has invested hundreds of hours in workflow testing. We've developed integrated approaches to digital workflow, from preproduction through on-set footage management to offline and online editing.
With hardware-accelerated Blu-ray mastering, better than real-time DVD encoding, extensive web video knowledge, in-house short-run DVD replication capabilities, and custom-developed audio syncing tools, Nice Dissolve can ensure fast turnaround for your digital dailies, whether you plan to watch dailies on an HD projector, in your living room, or on your iPhone.
We can also provide files suitable for offline editing during the production process, so you can start cutting your feature before production even ends.
Watch your work on the 92" screen in our 1080p HD screening room. The room has a 5.1 surround sound system, a Blu-ray player, and a Mac capable of playing back most editing formats (like ProRes and DNxHD). In fact, with seating for up to four people in addition to the computer operator, the room is great for collaborative editing sessions.
Want to relax after a long editing or grading session? The room is also equipped with a PlayStation 3, and access to the Netflix and Hulu online streaming libraries.
Nice Dissolve can help you generate buzz around exclusive online content, reach out via Twitter and Facebook, set up your film's web site and IMDB pages, and create viral content.
We can even create entire distribution-quality DVD and Blu-ray versions of your film, complete with packaging, to help you promote your film to distributors — or if you want to take an unconventional approach, we can help with online distribution of your film.
The RED ONE digital cinema camera breaks free of the old limitations of digital acquisition — and at a breakthrough price. It’s a bit of the future of motion imaging, available now. As one of the first companies to adopt the Red One, Nice Dissolve has extensive experience making the Red work at indie budget levels.
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35mm Film |
HD Video |
Red One |
| 35mm-format shallow depth of field |
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only with adaptor* |
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| HD on-set monitoring |
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| Use PL-mount cine lenses |
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only with adaptor* |
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| Extensive metering tools on-camera |
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| Long continuous takes |
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| Record direct to editable digital files |
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some systems |
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| Raw sensor data recording |
N/A |
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| Capture resolution |
varies |
1920×1080
or less |
4096×2304 |
*35mm-format adaptors for HD cameras result in loss of light and resolution. The Red One avoids this loss of quality.
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.
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.
Nice Dissolve has spent over two years developing comprehensive Red workflow options that extend from the set into post, saving time and money and preserving image integrity throughout the pipeline.
Nice Dissolve offers professional Red footage transcoding services with fast turnaround times — at a price about half the standard industry rate. We'll even pick up and drop off hard drives anywhere in Manhattan or Brooklyn at no additional charge (terms apply).
The RED ONE shoots at resolutions of up to 4096×2304 or 4480×1920. That’s over four times as many pixels as 1080p high-definition video, nearly 27 times the resolution of standard definition DVDs or DV camcorders, and more than enough resolution to rival 35mm film.
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