Secondaries with the Pros - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 209

Fig. 6.5 Football image without vignette. Image courtesy of Artbeats.

Fig. 6.6 Football image with vignette. Image courtesy of Artbeats. This vignette is pretty strong and obvi-
ous for the purposes of being seen in print. This was created with an oval Window in Resolve, darkening
mids and shadows outside of the oval.

“It's clearly more filmic. Maybe it's because early on in Pandora (Pan-
dora's grading system was called Pogle), people had to use square win-
dows and a lot of people had a problem getting a good vignette with a
square based window. But in the round, oval-based world, I have no
problem making it work within the confines of safe action in a tasteful
way.”
Another colorist who is unapologetic for using vignettes is Chris Pep-
perman-formerly of NFL Films, now senior colorist at NASCAR-despite
chiding from some of his colorist coworkers.

D e f i n i t i o n
Pandora: Pandora is one
of the major, high-end color
correction manufacturers.
Though they have several
product lines, the best
known was Pogle. Now
their software product is
called Revolution. When
Apple's Color was being
developed, Pogle and
DaVinci colorists were the
main ones solicited for
feedback.

I use vignetting on everything that I do in my commercial work.
- Chris Pepperman, NASCAR