Sam Fischer

Colorist & Finishing ArtistAvailable locally in NYC or remotely anywhere

Brands & Studios I’ve Worked With

Things I can do for you:

– Color Correction & Grading

Bring the vision of your project to life. Dirty it up or clean it up to emulate film or achieve a completely polished aesthetic. Adjust the lighting that wasn’t quite right or make sure your viewer’s eye goes exactly where you want it.

– Show LUT Creation

Establish the look for your project before you even start rolling! Create one or multiple custom show LUTs to keep things looking how you want it – across cameras – through the shoot, edit, and post. This saves time during the final color pass.

– Conform

A smooth transition from the offline edit to the original high-resolution camera masters. Speed ramps and keyframed repositions are perfectly recreated for delivery.

– Beauty Work & Retouching

Perfect those skin tones. Subtle and detailed retouching can soften lines or enhance features, smooth out texture, and remove distractions without affecting performance.

– Expert color assisting

With 7 years of specialized, high-end assistant experience, get a helping hand for seamless project support from initial ingest through the final renders. Whether starting up a project for another colorist, jumping in on any task in the middle, or handing off for final delivery – let yourself spend more time on the creative.

– Dailies

Keep your post pipeline running smooth. Color-matched proxies can be made for your editors, producers, directors, and other key stakeholders complete with perfect framing, synced sound, labeled takes, custom burn-ins, and metadata perfectly maintained for a smooth post pipeline.

– Mastering & Deliverables

Create all the necessary aspect ratios, color spaces, mixes, and final export formats to make your project compatible with any environment.

– Workflow & Pipeline Consulting

Figure out what resolutions to shoot at, cameras to use, color spaces to work in, file formats to deliver, round trips between artists, timeline exchanges, SDR to HDR, managing multiple aspect ratios, finishing best practices, and all the other things that make your brain hurt.

What People are Saying

Sam is one of those people who makes the post-production process easier for everyone involved. He’s collaborative, responsive, and always finds a way to keep projects moving, even when schedules tighten up and client notes start flying. We know we can count on him to communicate clearly, solve problems quickly, and deliver beautiful work. Just as importantly, he’s someone our team genuinely enjoys working with, which goes a long way.

Luke Lanter

Executive Producer @ Capture This

Working with Sam was awesome. He’s incredibly talented and has a great instinct for color. He really helped us dial in the look we were after and elevated the footage even more than we could’ve imagined. It was a genuinely fun collaboration and the project ended up looking absolutely gorgeous! I can’t wait to work with him again!

Ksusha Genenfeld

Director of Photography

Brands + Studios I’ve Worked With