Ron Nichols

Ron Nichols
Role:	Color Timer
BSG Universe:	Re-imagined Series and Caprica
Date of Birth:
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Ron Nichols is a colorist who worked on the Re-imagined Series as a color timer. His career in post-production color services spans five decades, from the 1970s through his retirement in the 2020s, working extensively on episodic television, sitcoms, reality shows, and feature films.

Career

Nichols began his professional colorist career at Level 3 Post in August 1997, where he worked for twelve years until August 2009. During this period, he performed color timing work on numerous television productions, including his contributions to Battlestar Galactica and its prequel series Caprica.

From 2009 through July 2014, Nichols worked as a colorist at UDS NBC-Universal, where he specialized in remastering television shows and movies for contemporary broadcast and home video release. During this same period, he maintained concurrent positions at multiple post-production facilities, including work at The Post House (February 2011 to July 2014) on network reality shows such as Inside Job, and at Atlas Digital (January 2011 to August 2013), where he provided color services for The Real Housewives of Orange County. He also performed pre-color work for episodic television at Level 3 Post from November 2011 to July 2014.

In August 2014, Nichols joined CCI Digital in Burbank as a staff colorist, remaining with the facility through 2018. CCI Digital has served the entertainment industry for over thirty years, providing color services, editorial, digital distribution, audio, and Blu-Ray/DVD production for major studios and television productions.

Since August 2016, Nichols has operated as a freelance colorist, establishing his own service under the name "Colorby.ron" (October 2017 to August 2021) and continuing to accept both freelance and staff positions. He specializes in final color correction for episodic television, sitcoms, reality programming, and feature films, utilizing DaVinci Resolve for file-based color correction work.

After approximately fifty years in the industry, Nichols officially retired from regular work, though he described his career as "blessed" and remained available for select projects.

Notable Credits

Beyond his work on the Battlestar Galactica franchise, Nichols' extensive filmography includes the original Magnum, P.I. series (1980-1988), the feature films Enfants terribles (2005) and Little Athens (2005), and numerous contemporary television programs including Shimmer and Shine (2016), Breaking Big (2018), Shark Week (2018), and We Need to Talk About America (2022).

External links

• Ron Nichols at the Internet Movie Database