Best Color Grading Studios in Vancouver (2026)

Introduction

Vancouver has six colour grading studios worth shortlisting in 2026, ranging from the local arms of Company 3 and Picture Shop to independent finishing boutiques in Railtown and Mount Pleasant. Between them they cover episodic, feature and streaming work shot in British Columbia, plus a steady run of commercials.

The market is shaped by service production for US studios and streamers. Recent Vancouver grades include Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie and Crew Girl at Company 3, Disney’s Descendants: Wicked Wonderland at Picture Shop, and Canadian features such as Holy Days at Elemental Post. New capacity keeps arriving despite the slower production years after the 2023 strikes: Toronto’s Alter Ego opened a Vancouver studio in 2025, and Flow Post Partners, backed by MTI Film, opened its East 6th Avenue facility in December 2025.

Every studio here has a working colour suite in Greater Vancouver in 2026, confirmed through its own site or credits published by the Vancouver Post Alliance. The list is unranked, as the right studio depends on the format, the deliverables and the colourist you want in the room.

The best color grading studios in Vancouver

1. Company 3 Vancouver

Company 3 Studios · Vancouver · company3.com

Company 3 runs a large episodic and feature finishing operation in Vancouver. The Vancouver studio grew out of Deluxe Vancouver and Encore, and its roster includes senior colourists Thor Roos (the studio’s Creative Post Council lead), Anne Boyle and Jimmy Hsu. Roos has graded Snowpiercer, The Man in the High Castle and an ASC Award-winning episode of The Terror: Infamy.

Credits from 2025 and 2026 include House of David and Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie (both graded by Roos), Netflix’s Crew Girl (Hsu) and American Hostage (Boyle and Hsu). Clients can also review sessions remotely through Company 3’s Virtual Outpost rooms, which suits US producers who cannot fly up.

2. Picture Shop Vancouver

Part of Streamland Media · Mount Pleasant · pictureshop.com

Picture Shop is the picture division of Streamland Media, and its Vancouver operation traces back to Finalé Post, a long-standing local lab. The flagship studio on Columbia Street handles colour, editorial and VFX, with theatrical grading suites running DaVinci Resolve, and a second site handles dailies.

In 2026 its colourists graded Descendants: Wicked Wonderland for Disney (Claudio Sepulveda, finishing colourist), School Spirits season three (Lorne Wright) and CBC’s Wild Cards season three (Matt Wells). Sepulveda’s earlier credits include Virgin River and Firefly Lane.

3. Alter Ego Vancouver

Partner-owned · Railtown · alteregopost.com

Alter Ego is a Toronto colour, VFX and finishing company that opened a Vancouver studio in 2025, focused on local productions and staffed locally. Eric Whipp, its head of colour, graded Mad Max: Fury Road and Furiosa, and the company grades and delivers in Dolby Vision. Managing partner Craig Harris runs the Vancouver office on Alexander Street.

Its work leans further towards advertising than most studios on this list, with recent spots for RBC, Air Canada, Sephora, KFC and Volkswagen alongside features. That makes it a natural first call for agencies and brands that want commercial grading without sending the job east.

4. Elemental Post

Independent · Railtown · elementalpost.com

Elemental Post is a boutique facility on Powell Street that keeps colour, sound and finishing under one roof, along with a 4K screening theatre, DCP creation and film restoration for productions shot on film. Colourist and executive producer David Tomiak leads the grading side.

Recent credits include Holy Days (colour, sound and theatrical delivery, 2026), the series YAGA (colour and sound, October 2026) and Eternity (colour and finishing, 2025). Earlier features include Riceboy Sleeps and Clown in a Cornfield. It suits Canadian and US independent features that want one team from grade to delivery.

5. FrameRiver

Independent · Mount Pleasant · frameriver.net

FrameRiver opened in July 2019 as a post and VFX management company with its own facility, now a 6,000 square foot space on East 6th Avenue. Grading runs in DaVinci Resolve and Baselight suites, with Matteo Saradini as senior colourist, and the company also handles titles and VFX in house.

Lionel Barton graded CBC’s Cheetah: Fast & Wild there in 2026. FrameRiver’s producing credits include The Order for MGM/Amazon and Anna Kendrick’s Woman of the Hour for Netflix, and listed clients include AGC Studios, Paramount, Stan and Bell Media.

6. Infinity Post & VFX

Independent · East Vancouver · infinitypost.com

Infinity Post & VFX runs three DaVinci Resolve colour suites on Franklin Street, grading at up to 8K, with conform, VFX and the full set of distribution deliverables (closed captions, descriptive video, subtitles and DCPs) handled in the same building. The studio cites more than 200 credits.

Colourist Gary Shaw graded the feature Whatcha Want there in 2026, and the studio provided post on the series YAGA. Client logos on its site include Netflix, Paramount, CBC, ITV, Starz and the NFB.

What to look for in a Vancouver color grading studio

Start with the deliverable. Studio and streamer work arrives with fixed specifications for HDR, Dolby Vision, colour space and archive formats, and the larger Vancouver facilities deliver against those every week. Commercial and independent work has more room, and a boutique may give you more of a senior colourist’s time for the same budget.

Choose the colourist as much as the facility. Most Vancouver studios list named colourists with credits, and it is worth asking who will grade your project, who handles dailies, and whether the same person sets the look and finishes it. A LUT built at dailies can carry the look through the edit, but only if the studio and the DIT agree on it early.

Think about the room. Episodic grading in Vancouver often runs with producers in Los Angeles, so remote review streams, calibrated client monitors and screening theatres matter. If you need a theatrical grade or DCP, check that the studio has a projection room rather than only a reference monitor. The guide to what colour grading involves covers the stages if you are briefing a grade for the first time.

Finally, plan how notes and files move. A grade produces many versions, and notes from directors, DOPs, producers and agencies arrive from different places. Studios with one clear review route, and a single location for the latest exports, keep rounds short and avoid grading against old notes.

How Fabric helps color grading teams

Fabric gives a colour team one workspace for reference stills, exports, LUTs, look books and client feedback, with AI search across all of it. Producers and colourists working between Vancouver and Los Angeles can keep each project in its own shared folder, so everyone sees the latest version.

Large exports and review files sit in Fabric’s cloud drive, which streams files on demand without taking local disk space, and the built-in viewer plays video without a full download. Search works by meaning across documents, images and transcribed video, and colour search finds stills and frames by shade, which helps when building a look from past grades. There is more on structuring this in how to manage video project files.

For review, share a file or folder with the client as a commenter; shared links work without sign-up. Through annotations, commenters can leave timestamped comments on video, draw on a frame to point at a sky or a skin tone, and draw on stills with a comment attached. The team marks each comment completed as it is addressed, so the note list works like a checklist (see how to mark client feedback as done). Live collaboration adds threaded comments, @mentions and viewer, commenter and editor roles.

When a grade is signed off, a folder of final deliverables can be shared with password protection, and link analytics shows when each named recipient opened it. Fabric uses AES-256 encryption and is CASA Tier 2 assessed, and workspace data is not used to train AI models; check studio security requirements with your own security team.

Password protection and link analytics are included on Pro and Team plans. See plans for teams.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best colour grading studio in Vancouver?

It depends on the project. For studio and streaming episodic work, Company 3 Vancouver and Picture Shop Vancouver carry the largest 2026 credit lists. For commercials, Alter Ego brings a strong advertising roster, and Elemental Post and FrameRiver suit independent features that want colour and finishing from one team.

Which Vancouver studios grade commercials?

Alter Ego Vancouver has the most advertising work on this list, with spots for RBC, Air Canada and Volkswagen. Agencies that need the edit and sound as well can start with the best post-production companies in Vancouver.

What happened to Finalé Post and Encore Vancouver?

Both now trade under larger brands. Finalé Post became Picture Shop Vancouver, part of Streamland Media, and Encore Vancouver’s colourists work under the Company 3 Vancouver name.

Can I grade a Vancouver shoot remotely?

Yes. Company 3 offers remote sessions through its Virtual Outpost rooms, and Alter Ego supports remote collaboration and also has studios in Toronto and Los Angeles. Ask for a calibrated stream and agree a reference display before the first session.

Which Vancouver studios handle Dolby Vision?

Alter Ego grades and delivers in Dolby Vision, and Infinity Post & VFX grades at up to 8K. The larger facilities deliver HDR versions for streamers as standard, but confirm the exact deliverables list with any studio before booking.

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