Rovak Colorist Services

Rovak Colorist Services We specialize in Color Correction Services to movie studios, advertising agencies and music video producers. Our Equipment or Yours, Our Location or Yours.

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11/06/2024

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03/16/2020

Tom Rovak Colorist Commercial Demo Reel 2019

TB from 2010
05/25/2019

TB from 2010

When good enough is not good enough...When a partner in film finish is essential...When keeping your post budget is key....
02/15/2019

When good enough is not good enough...
When a partner in film finish is essential...
When keeping your post budget is key...
When you need an experienced post partner...
When you are tired of amateurs...
When the deadline is critical...
When you want post house quality, but freelance prices...
Then it's time for
ROVAK COLORIST SERVICES
(815)690-8323 [email protected]
https://colorist-rovak.com
Commercial Demo Reel 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvPYEUA2p6M&t=25s
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Rovak Colorist. Colorists Services Worldwide. We specialize in movie, video, digital and film Color Correction Services to movie studios, advertising agencies and music video producers. Our Equipment or Yours, Our Location or Yours. We can supplement your team or use ours!

01/31/2019

CASTING CALL - IMMEDIATE NEED

NOTE: date of shoot changed

1 adult male
2 adult females - brunette
ages 25-35

Heroic Age Studios is seeking talent for an educational video shoot in the Decatur IL area next week (tentative date February 12). Selected individuals will portray an agricultural profession/career. Small talent fee will be paid.

Email a current head shot and full body photo, along with a bio that includes your contact information and any previous film/modeling work, to:

[email protected]

Please put SWAG in the subject line.

Deadline is end of the day Tuesday, February 5.
Thank you.

06/12/2017

I have been a Sr. Colorist/Post Supervisor/Post Producer for over 30 years. I started and built several post houses and worked at a few more huge national ones.
A few years back I was forced into a semi-retirement type situation when the owners at the post company I was partnered with decided to leave Chicago for LA. I stayed in Chicago and started a work from home company, Rovak Colorist Services, to provide the high caliber, high quality work of major big time post studios in a work from home environment to be far more flexible with today's budgets. I am not a guy in his basement on a laptop, I have the same high end color system that many of my competitors have in the high end post studios, without the overhead.
In this work environment I have done a multitude of work from SuperBowl spots for Jimmy Johns to feature films that were approved for distribution negotiations with Warner Bros. Lindbergh E. Hollingsworth, VP Head of Acquisition Warner Bros., said "the color and quality of Rovak's work is certainly up to WB's standards of excellence."

Tom Rovak CSI- Executive Producer / Sr. Colorist / Post Production Supervisor
ROVAK COLORIST SERVICES
Commercials, Feature Films, Music Videos, Long Form
Color Correction, Dailies, Editorial, Finish/VFX
[email protected]
(815)690-8323
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1652946/?ref_=rvi_nm
Website / Commercial Reel: http://colorist-rovak.com/
YouTube Channel / Reels: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNTzBTECwt5K3wkqUjMN-UA
Music Video Reel: https://vimeo.com/208990644?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=29220

07/30/2015

Here is a short film by writer/director Aaron Lewis. I did the syncing, edited, colored, finished, and even did some audio effects and mix (very rough, ok audio engineers are still safe) all with DaVinci Resolve 12 Studio. The future is here. DaVinci has come a long, long way since the days of the Wiz and the Classic I first learned on back at Editel/Chicago.

06/03/2015

ROVAK COLORIST SERVICES
Hey Indie film makers. Are you looking for professional color grading at reasonable rates? Give me a call. Also, with my contacts, I have recently found distribution for 5 indie films I color graded. Give me a call today!
Tom Rovak - Executive Producer / Sr. Colorist / Post Production Supervisor
ROVAK COLORIST SERVICES
A Division Of The Annex Studios
Commercials, Feature Films, Music Videos, Long Form
Color Correction, Dailies, Editorial, Finish/VFX
[email protected]
(815)690-8323
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1652946/?ref_=rvi_nm
Website / Commercial Reel: http://colorist-rovak.com/

05/15/2015

ROVAK COLORIST SERVICES
Hey Indie film makers. Are you looking for professional color grading at reasonable rates? Give me a call. Also, with my contacts, I have recently found distribution for 5 indie films I color graded. Give me a call today!

Tom Rovak - Executive Producer / Sr. Colorist / Post Production Supervisor
ROVAK COLORIST SERVICES
A Division Of The Annex Studios
Commercials, Feature Films, Music Videos, Long Form
Color Correction, Dailies, Editorial, Finish/VFX
[email protected]
(815)690-8323
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1652946/?ref_=rvi_nm
Website / Commercial Reel: http://colorist-rovak.com/

03/21/2015

ROVAK COLORIST SERVICES:

Hi Filmmakers,

I was recently asked by a young filmmaker “when should I get my post people involved?”
My answer is, as soon as possible!!! During or even before pre-production. Post people are there to support the production and save you a lot of money, time and headaches.
I recently went to a shoot, first day luckily, and they were shooting with a RED One. I noticed they were shooting full 16:9. I asked the Director why he wasn't shooting 2:35 since this was a hopeful theatrical movie. He said he thought 16:9 was the same as 1:85. I said “it's not”. I also answered his second question “no, 1:85 is not the same as 2:35”. You can center crop 2:35 to fill a 16:9 screen easily or simply letterbox it for 16:9, I told him. Luckily not much time was wasted with the 16:9.
I recently did the color correction on a feature, and like 90% of indie filmmakers they came to me after they were done editing. The editor sent me a drive with all the R3D files, 7TB of footage, and an XML. Nothing re-linked. After a second looking through his XML I quickly realized that all his cuts on his XML had time codes in the minutes, no hours listed. At that point I checked all the R3d files to find them excellent. They were all recorded with the proper “time of day” SMPTE time code. So they all start with a designated hour. It seemed that all the footage was transcoded as H264 files to save space, but the program used maintained the source file names, but not the SMPTE time code. After many failed attempts to make something work, I re-transcoded all the footage for them to ProRes LT and the editor had to eye match all the cuts. Three months later I got a new XML and started the grade.
Just to say things don't always go that wrong on productions but, I have decades of experience in this industry and there isn't much I haven't seen and figured out a work around or a fix. Post people, because of the nature of where we are in the process have become real, everyday problem solvers. Most indie films go with a team of inexperienced post people for these reasons, friends, fellow students, and the number one reason, to save money. Take my advice and get at least one experienced post person, editor, colorist etc... to guide them. I can speak from my own experience and my job as colorist has always been the link between production and post. Back when everything was being shot on film, we colorists were in constant touch during the shoot with the Directors, Producers, Editors, and especially the DOPs. We scanned the film for the first time, after processing, creating dailies which the editors would cut with. We had to make sure that months later, sometimes in a different city, state or country that we or another colorist could use the editor's EDL, XML, or AAF to efficiently re-link back to the original negative for final color grading. So we also then created the elements for the VFX, and final finish as well. We have to really know all the work flows for every edit system, VFX and finish system. I have to say Colorists make the best Post Producers, Post Supervisors etc... or at leat as a consultant. Just think what some one with all that knowledge and experience could do for your next production.

Tom Rovak - Executive Producer / Sr. Colorist / Post Production Supervisor
ROVAK COLORIST SERVICES
A Division Of The Annex Studios
Commercials, Feature Films, Music Videos, Long Form
Color Correction, Dailies, Editorial, Finish/VFX
[email protected]
(815)690-8323
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1652946/?ref_=rvi_nm
Website / Commercial Reel: http://colorist-rovak.com/

02/08/2015

I am looking for a rep. If interested please contact me: trovak@ comcast.net (815)690-8323

Quiet on the set.....some people may be trying to read!Make sure to catch this weeks article, where we take a close-up o...
11/14/2014

Quiet on the set.....some people may be trying to read!
Make sure to catch this weeks article, where we take a close-up on Directors. That's a wrap!

http://rovakcoloristservices.wordpress.com/2014/11/14/lights-color-action/

Whether you’re a movie aficionado or just a casual viewer, at one point or another, you may have equated the name of a movie by the name of the director who produced it. Directors have a variety of...

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Here is a short film by writer/director Aaron Lewis. I did the syncing, edited, colored, finished, and even did some audio effects and mix (very rough, ok audio engineers are still safe) all with DaVinci Resolve 12 Studio. The future is here. DaVinci has come a long, long way since the days of the Wiz and the Classic I first learned on back at Editel/Chicago.

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