Ray Roman was a police officer for fifteen years and often wondered if there was something else out there that he could “build a passion for,” much like he did for his police work. One day he decided that he was going to simply transfer some old family video footage of his kids to DVD. He made a visit to a local electronics retail store to purchase an inexpensive transfer mechanism so that he could begin the conversion process. This little piece of equipment also came with a limited version of an editing software program. He imported his family video into the program and thought that what he was creating looked like a movie.

Now, a self-taught home-movie filmmaker turned to internationally renowned award winning cinematographer, Ray Roman is a highly sought after and well respected cinematographer who excels in wedding filmmaking. In 2009 at the 19th Annual International Wedding and Event Video Expo (WEVA), which is the largest convention and trade show for professional videographers, Roman won the coveted and most prestigious Gold Award for Short-Form Wedding Production. This is a form of video production that Roman takes to a level of cinematic experience, think Francis Ford Coppola and The Godfather wedding sequence. In addition to all of this, Roman is also a sponsored shooter for cinema toolmakers, Cinevate.

As you can tell, Roman is a highly motivated individual who wants the best for his clients. He is also in continual pursuit of effective visual communication with a desire to achieve specific looks. He wants, needs all of this packaged in an effective and efficient post-production workflow.

Recently, Roman and company went on a location shoot for a wedding in Greece. According to Roman

“we were looking to achieve a specific look similar to the movie 300 for certain parts. Using Color Fixer Plus and Tint plug-ins, we were able to quickly achieve this look.”

Color Fixer Plus and Tint are both included in the award winning Video Essentials package.

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“Not only has NewBlueFX equipped us with an amazing set of tools for post-production, the quick render times have sped up our workflow, which is critical in certain situations such as same day edits.”

Says Ray,

“The best part for us is the ease-of-use. The plug-ins are very intuitive and a few tweaks of the controls allow us to quickly create spectacular looking imagery.”

“NewBlueFX has become a very important part of our post-production workflow. We’ve created and saved custom looks that we are able to quickly apply to our footage to give it that extra ‘punch.’ I can’t see ever using that other program ‘Render Bullet’ again.”

To view more of Roman’s work, please visit http://rayromanfilms.com/.