The Offset Podcast

In this episode of The Offset Podcast, we're once again joined by L.A. based colorist and facility owner Nick Hasson.  

If you haven't checked out Part 1 of our chat with Nick be sure to do so as it details Nick's climb through the facility ranks in L.A. 

In this episode, we get a little more big picture with Nick and explore the state of affairs of color, finishing and post production in 2026.  

Specific topics include:

• Is the facility life right for everyone?
• Having the stomach for freelance life
• Vibe coding, gear and technology
• The perceptual impact of commercial space
• L.A. as the canary in the coal mine
• A.I. and its impact on post
• The right things to focus on for young colorists
• And more!

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In this episode of The Offset Podcast we're joined by friend, amazing colorist, and all around great human Nick Hasson.

We've been wanting to have Nick on for a long time and we're excited to finally get the opportunity. 

Nick has spent the past 25 years at some of the biggest postproduction & color companies in the world including ILM, Technicolor, RIOT, Company3, Light Iron, Modern VideoFilm, and Harbor Picture Company. 

He recently opened his own studio in Burbank, CA called THE END

In this first part of a two part series with Nick we talk about his background, what larges facilities taught him and more.

Specific topics include:

• Joining ILM & launching a professional career
• Moving to L.A. and joining RIOT & Company3
• Developing 'soft skills' while at Technicolor
• Camaraderie & the early days of D.I. at Light Iron
• The pandemic and launching a freelance career
• And more!

If you enjoy the topics and discussion of The Offset Podcast you can join in the conversation with our new Discord community

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In this episode of The Offset Podcast we're discussing how to determine your rate(s) and bid on a project. 

Pricing, discounts, and proposals are challenging for many people - and lets face it - these topics while are important, are decidedly not the fun part of running a postproduction business.

In this show, we'll explore how we go about thinking about setting rates, building proposals, handling discounts and more.  Some of the specific topics we discuss include:

• How your market, experience, overhead and perceptual goals all influence determining rates
• Picking a rate type - hourly, day or flat
• The importance of scoping to flat rates + having 'special' rates for evening and weekend work
• Building a rate card
• Building a project order/proposal & handling discounts
• Consistency in pricing

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In this episode we're discussing a question we got from viewer/listener Matt S. who in part wrote:

'I’d love to hear your thoughts on working with GFX and VFX through color. I run a motion design studio in Denver and we are often delivering GFX to DI houses. We’ve gotten surprised a few times seeing how our material gets laid into a show, and sometimes heavily graded'

Thanks Matt for writing in!  It's a deep topic, but in this episode we do our best to explore it.  Some of the specifics we discuss include:

• Understanding GFX vs VFX and why they're sometimes used interchangeably
• The importance of communication in a GFX/VFX pipeline
• Working with GFX in a color pipeline
• Context & keeping GFX updated with the grade
• Working with VFX in a color pipeline
• The benefit of working with mattes from VFX
• Color management and how it impacts GFX/VFX workflows
• HDR and its impact on the pipeline 

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In this episode of The Offset Podcast we’re discussing online communities and their value.  

Way back when, it used to be ‘community’ was those you worked with and people in your local/regional geographic area. At the birth of the modern internet, community took on a different form that has progressed greatly over the past 30 or so years.  

Some of the specifics we explore this episode include:

• The early days of online communities
• Online forums and the power of search & moderation
• The rise of OEM communities, private training websites and the modern YouTuber
• Evaluating an online community
• Introducing The Offset Podcast Discord community

As mentioned in the episode, if you enjoy the topics and discussion of The Offset Podcast you can join in the conversation with our new Discord community

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It’s our 60th episode!  Thanks to our amazing audience for keeping the show going over the past 3 years.  Huge thanks to our sponsors @flanderscientific, @conform.tools.  Thanks to our editor Stella that cut so many of these episodes.  We have 100 episodes in our sights.  

Thank you - Robbie & Joey

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In this installment of The Offset Podcast we’re addressing a message we got on Instagram from 16-Year old budding colorist Mehdi who asks:

‘(I) would love to know if you guys could talk more about getting into the color industry, breaking through, any advice for young colorists trying to make it’

First, congrats Mehdi for being so motivated at such a young age - and thanks listening to the show. 

We’ve covered this topic in various ways over the years, but in this episode we thought we’d take a look at some of the personal characteristics and attitudes that working in post requires.  Specific topics covered include:

• Overview of desirable personal characteristics
• Being a sponge, self-motivated, and a team player
• Ownership & not making excuses
• Knowledge & demonstration of learning
• Attitude & professionalism 
• And more!

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In this installment of The Offset Podcast we're discussing quality control or QC for short.  

If you've worked in production & post for long enough, you've probably encountered QC challenges and QC reports.  While passing QC can sometimes be challenging - understanding what it is, how it works, and how (at least most of the time) that its not personal attack can go a long way to treating QC as just like any part of a project pipeline.  

Some of the specifics we'll explore in this episode include:

• When & where does QC happen?
• Understanding QC specs & why they're sometimes challenging
• The importance of communication in the QC process
• What are the goals of QC
• How is QC performed?
• Internal QC & client trust
• QC severity flags & understanding 'inherent to source'

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In this episode we're revisiting our very first episode from all the way back in early 2024 - Client Communication.  

In the past two years a lot as changed, and in service based industry like postproduction revisiting your approaches every once and while is a useful exercise. While we hit on some familiar themes, there's lots of new topics and viewpoints discussed in this episode.  

Some of the specifics discussed in this episode include:

• How post is still (and will always be) a people/communication business
• The good & bad of video conferencing
• Asynchronous text communication
• Review comments
• Synchronous text communication
• The role of no communication

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Recently we've been thinking a lot about how quickly time seems to go by and nothing demonstrates this more than how our kids have gone from being to toddlers to graduating high school and moving on to their next stage in life.  

While there isn't anything novel about this transition, it got us thinking about the unique challenges of being a parent who's also a post production professional. 

In this episode of The Offset Podcast we're exploring this topic in detail.  

Some specifics include:

• Time management & being present
• How the work around the work is a big parenting challenge
• Parenting when your partner isn't in the post business
• Giving a peak behind the curtain to your family
• Is post a good career path for kids?
• How knowledge won in post applies to other careers & industries

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In this installment of The Offset Podcast we’re discussing why there’s been an obsession with film print emulation over the past few years and if we’re ever going to move on from the FPE mania that has been gripping the color world recently.

The 2020s at least in most western media, could easily be defined as the FPE era. One only has to look to the plethora of FPE tools available and to their screens to see that FPE is everywhere.  But is that a good thing?  What constitutes good FPE and poorly executed FPE? Will we ever move past the obsession with the film print look?

Specifics covered in this episode include:

• What's good vs poorly executed FPE?
• How the goal posts for FPE keep moving
• What about HDR in an FPE world?
• Remastering of film orginated projects
• Why developers are choosing FPE for products
• End user fatigue & is FPE popular everywhere?

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