Join us at the free Adobe Color After Dark industry mixer, which takes place June 5 in Burbank, following Cine Gear Expo. Live Color Mode demos, partner hardware, free drinks, and a taco truck: what more could you want?
If you're heading to Cine Gear Expo at Universal Studios on June 5th, don't be in a rush to move on elsewhere after the show closes. Eight minutes down the road at Key Code Media in Burbank, we're throwing a party.
Adobe Color After Dark is a free industry mixer running from 6pm to 9pm, and it's already looking like it will be one of the better ways to end an industry-oriented Friday in LA. Think less trade show, more social evening with the right people in the room and genuinely interesting kit to get your hands on.
The floor will have a curated set of Adobe's technology partners running hands-on demos across acquisition, storage, post and delivery. Companies at the event include AJA, AMD, Atomos, ColourlabAI, EIZO, FSI, ioDyne, OWC, and RED/Nikon, as well as Adobe and Key Code Media themselves. We’ve got more detail below on some of the demos that will take place, though some companies are keeping what they’re showing under wraps until the night.
These are the companies that power professional Adobe workflows day in, day out, and this is a rare chance to talk directly to the people who build the products, not just the people who sell them.
The headline draw is Adobe's Color Mode Live Sessions. Adobe will be running two scheduled demonstrations of Color Mode, its powerful new grading toolset for Premiere Pro editors that's been turning heads since NAB. What’s more, they’ll be doing it on an LED wall in the Key Code Media training space. If you haven't seen it in action yet, it's worth showing up for. Each session is limited to 30 people, so if you want a seat, register early.
There will be raffle prizes on the night from the partner companies too.
The whole evening is free. Yes, free. Food comes from a taco truck, there's beer, wine and soft drinks rather than badge scanners, keynotes, and queues. Bring friends. Come and go as you like.
If your work touches color in any part of the chain, whether that’s shooting, grading, finishing, or signing off, then this evening is aimed squarely at you.
Registration is free via Eventbrite, but places are limited. Search Adobe Color After Dark, or register here.
As we said, some of the partners are keeping their powder dry ahead of the show. Here’s what we know will be there.
Atomos will be showing the new Sumo PRO-19 4K monitor-recorder-switcher working with Fujifilm’s GFX ETERNA 55 camera. The Sumo PRO-19 supports Fujifilm’s F-Loc2C color science, and is going to be the first monitor-recorder to support EL Zone natively with the ETERNA, which is going to be pretty cool to see.
EIZO will be showcasing the newly announced ColorEdge CS3200X UHD 31.5-inch calibration monitor, as well as the company’s extremely popular UHD 27-inch self-calibrating ColorEdge CG2700X. The CS3200X looked good when it was announced at NAB, and features 99% Adobe RGB and 96% DCI‑P3 coverage, as well as both industry-standard transfer functions: Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) for broadcast and Perceptual Quantization (PQ) for film and streaming production.
FSI will be highlighting the XMP270 reference display that has been built specifically for HDR and colour critical monitoring. It brings FSI's trusted QDOLED reference monitoring to a compact 26.5-inch form factor, and with 1000 nits peak luminance is a strong fit for edit bays, colour suites, DIT carts and onset HDR workflows.
OWC will show the Express 1M2 80G and Express 4M2 Ultra drives working with Premiere Pro. Adobe used the Express 1M2 80G for its booth demos at NAB, so you know that it’s a robust and reliable USB4 NVMe SSD. The company bills the Express 4M2 Ultra, which debuted at NAB in turn, as “the fastest compact DIY NVMe RAID. Period.” It gives users the freedom to choose any NVMe M.2 drive, configure their storage exactly how they need it, and boosts workflow efficiency with Thunderbolt 5 bandwidth up to 6622 MB/s.