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| | '''Ron Nichols''' is the [[w:Color grading|Color Timer]] for the [[Battlestar Galactica (TRS)|Re-imagined Series]]. |
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| '''Ron Nichols''' is a [[w:Color grading|colorist]] who worked on the [[Battlestar Galactica (TRS)|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.
| | Nichols has worked on such films as ''[[imdb:0424999|Enfants terribles]]'' and ''[[w:Little Athens|Little Athens]]''.<ref name="imdb">{{cite_web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1722205/|title=Internet Movie Database|date=|accessdate=10 November 2011|last=|first=|format=|language=English}}</ref> |
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| == Career ==
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| Nichols began his professional colorist career at [[w:Level 3 Communications|Level 3 Post]] in August 1997, where he worked for twelve years until August 2009.<ref name="linkedin">{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-nichols-381a6514/#:~:text=Officially%20Retired%20after%20a%20blessed%2050%20yr%20career|title=Ron Nichols|publisher=LinkedIn|accessdate=14 November 2025|language=English}}</ref> During this period, he performed color timing work on numerous television productions, including his contributions to ''Battlestar Galactica'' and its prequel series ''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]''.<ref name="imdb">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1722205/#:~:text=Ron%20Nichols%20is%20known%20for%20Magnum%2C%20P.I.,Battlestar%20Galactica%20(2004)%20and%20Caprica%20(2009)|title=Ron Nichols|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=14 November 2025|language=English}}</ref>
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| From 2009 through July 2014, Nichols worked as a colorist at [[w:NBCUniversal|UDS NBC-Universal]], where he specialized in remastering television shows and movies for contemporary broadcast and home video release.<ref name="linkedin"/> 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 ''[[w:The Real Housewives of Orange County|The Real Housewives of Orange County]]''.<ref name="linkedin"/> He also performed pre-color work for episodic television at Level 3 Post from November 2011 to July 2014.<ref name="linkedin"/>
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| In August 2014, Nichols joined [[w:CCI Digital|CCI Digital]] in Burbank as a staff colorist, remaining with the facility through 2018.<ref name="linkedin"/> 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.<ref name="cci_linkedin">{{cite web|url=https://do.linkedin.com/company/cci-digital#:~:text=CCI%20has%20been%20serving%20the%20entertainment%20community%20for%20over%2030%20years|title=CCI Digital|publisher=LinkedIn|accessdate=14 November 2025|language=English}}</ref>
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| 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.<ref name="linkedin"/> He specializes in final color correction for episodic television, sitcoms, reality programming, and feature films, utilizing [[w:DaVinci Resolve|DaVinci Resolve]] for file-based color correction work.<ref name="linkedin"/>
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| 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.<ref name="linkedin"/>
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| === Notable Credits ===
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| Beyond his work on the ''Battlestar Galactica'' franchise, Nichols' extensive filmography includes the original ''[[w:Magnum, P.I.|Magnum, P.I.]]'' series (1980-1988),<ref name="imdb"/> the feature films ''[[imdb:0424999|Enfants terribles]]'' (2005) and ''[[w:Little Athens|Little Athens]]'' (2005),<ref name="imdb"/> and numerous contemporary television programs including ''Shimmer and Shine'' (2016), ''Breaking Big'' (2018), ''Shark Week'' (2018), and ''We Need to Talk About America'' (2022).<ref name="imdb"/>
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| == External links ==
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| * {{imdb name|id=1722205|name=Ron Nichols}}
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