Colour / Online / Finishing

Post-production finishing in Melbourne

Colour grading, online editing and delivery, from one pair of hands.

I am Matteo Curcio, a Melbourne-based colourist and online editor. I take commercial and branded jobs from a locked cut to approved masters — grade, conform, versioning, QC and delivery — remotely, for production companies and agencies here and overseas.

Finishing is not a stage at the end of a job. It is where every earlier decision gets tested at once.

A look that held on three hero frames and comes apart across the cut. An online that survived four rounds of notes and then met a 1:1 crop. A master returned the day before air over a flag nobody set deliberately. None of those are creative failures, and they all arrive where the schedule has least room to absorb them.

That is the work. Not rescue — specification, early enough that rescue is not needed.

Colour grading

Look development, then the slow part: matching across mixed cameras and mixed light. The tell is skin warm on one angle, green on the reverse, and nobody able to say why the cut feels uneven. Colour management settled before the first node.

Online editing and conform

Rebuilding the offline against camera originals and finding what the EDL quietly lost — a speed ramp that resolves differently, a nested effect that did not travel, handles that were never there. Versions built from one source, not fifteen times by hand.

Finishing and delivery

Masters cut to the spec the broadcaster published, not the one someone remembered. Correct codec, colour metadata, loudness, naming. Most QC rejections are not creative disagreements. They are a flag set wrong in an export preset three weeks earlier.

Workflow support

The unglamorous half. Relinks that fail, timelines too fragile to reopen, naming that made sense to one person in one week. Worth paying for when the process itself has become the risk.

FAQ

Before you send the job.

How do you charge?

Day rate, or a fixed quote where the scope is clear enough to price as a package. Versioning and delivery quote flat more easily than the grade.

Can we attend the grade?

I work remotely rather than hosting attended sessions. Review goes out as files and notes come back over email or a call. It keeps room and attendance costs out of the quote — on a commercial, not a small share of it.

What do I send you?

A locked cut, the project file, camera originals, your delivery specs, and anything the client has already signed off. If the specs are the part you are unsure about, send what you have and I will tell you what is missing.

What do you work in?

DaVinci Resolve for grade and finish. Conform comes in from Premiere, Final Cut Pro or Resolve — an XML with handles is enough to start.

Start here

Post-house finish, without the post house.

Tell me what you are making, where it is up to, and what has to be delivered. I will come back with an approach and a quote.