[TaoColorist] Sunday Morning Reading (Edumacate Yer'self Edition)
Published: Sun, 10/23/11
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The Tao Colorist
for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sunday.
Issue LXVII Brought to you by: Tao of Color.com
Editor's Note: This week was rather light on color grading stories. But I did find a bunch of educational links. So I built this edition around that and sprinkled in some other news. We're shorter this week. But it's Sunday. I suspect you won't mind.
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Tools We Use
- Lessons Learned From My FCPx to Resolve Roundtrip - While testing the FCPx to Resolve roundtrip, Scott Simmons finds some flaws with FCPx (and Premeire Pro) when using the same source footage with Avid Media Composer via Avid Media Access. He also discovers that Resolve doesn't pass through the audio mix back to FCPx and shares his FCPx workaround to getting the mix from the 'locked picture' back into the graded timeline. Good stuff. (ProVideoCoalition.com)
Tools We Might Use
- Project X to 7 - Philip Hodgetts has released his FCP X to FCP 7 project migration tool. Nifty if your client starts in X and decides to bail and finish in 7. (IntelligentAssistance.com)
- First Look: Plasma Lighting - Abel Cine has an interview with Hive Lighting about their forthcoming Plasma lights. Twice as efficient as HMI, flicker free. Just like lighting with the sun (without the nuclear reaction). Watch to the end to see the tiny size of the lighting element. Ridiculous how much light it throws off. (blog.abelcine.com)
Tools We Used to Use
- After 123 Years, Motion Picture Film Cameras Go Out Of Production - A nice summary from NoFilmSchool on a much longer article covering the end of film camera production. (NoFilmSchool.com)
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Edumacate Yer'self
- 2011 SMPTE Conference - 24 - 27 October, Hollywood, CA. If you've got the time, then make the effort to check out some impressive sounding presentations about the future of our business. (SMPTE.org)
- Boston FCP SuperMeet - This Thursday, $10. Featuring Oscar Winning editor Walter Murch. Plus presentations on DaVinci Resolve, Autodesk Smoke, the state of DSLR filmmaking, and the craft of editing from the editors of Black Swan. Plus the SuperMeet's usual super-charged raffle. (Supermeet.com)
- [Video] DaVinci Resolve Presentation - Colorist Patrick Woodward demos Resolve to the Los Angeles FCP User Group. This is Part 1. Part 2 can be found in the list of videos on the right of the page. (YouTube.com)
- [Video] Webinar: DITs Demysitifed - We linked to this a few issues ago before it had been recorded. Assimilate has now uploaded this Webinar to Vimeo. Enjoy. (Vimeo.com)
- [Video] Fonts Are Fun! - Continuing my font kick... a terrific video designed to educate you about selecting and using fonts. It really is fun. And kudos to Veer for using education as a promotional tool. (YouTube.com)
- Watch Webinar, Win Copy of Scratch Lab - This live FREE Webinar is about 'DI for File-Based Productions' (let's ignore for a moment if it isn't going out to film it's not 'Intermediate'). If you're watching this webinar Live you've got a shot of winning a copy of Scratch Lab. Learn and earn. What's not to like? (FilmmakingWebinars.com)
- Steve Jobs: The Biography - Biographies of wildly successful people? Yes, it's educational. I just ordered my copy. The big question... Hard Cover or Kindle? The Pre-order price for the Hardcover is pretty good at just under $18. Book is released on Monday, October 24. (Amazon.com)
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Sunday Morning Fun(nies)
- [Video] Quantum Leviation - This is just freaking... freaky. And awesome. And so Jetsons! The second video explains some of the physics of it. (Kottke.org)
- [Video] $58k Red Epic Camera on a Remote Control Helicopter (Geek.com)
- This Is NOT A Cheesesteak - A terrific new Tumbleblog dedicated to highlighting one of America's most pervasive culinary lies... the Philly Cheesesteak. Almost every restaurant, deli, bodega and fast-food joint on the North American Continent willfully misrepresents this most heart-stopping of purely American cuisines. And this blog is dedicated to exposing the lies one greasy faux sandwich at a time. (ThisIsNotACheesesteak.tumblr.com)
- A Sprinkle of Salt Could Allow Hard Drives to Reach 20 TB - I wonder if sprinkling the salt is an End-User mod. (HardMac.com)
Saving Me the Trouble
- Final Cut Pro X News - A big shout-out to NotesOnVideo for their nice round-up of FCPx articles and blog posts. Now I don't feel guilty about not covering this stuff (or guilty for cluttering up a Color Grading newsletter with FCPx news). (NotesOnVideo.blogspot.com)
Pirate THIS!
- UltraViolet Reviewers Hate Hollywood's Digital Locker - But if you talk to the Studio's, the reviewers are just cranky and can't see the Big Picture of just how awesome this technology is . . . for Hollywood. (Gigom.com)
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Your Career
- Your First Job Doesn't Really Matter (blogs.hbr.org)
Quote of the Week
- He who works with his hands is a Laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a Craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an Artist.
- St. Francis of Assisi (b.aking.ca)
A Step Too Far?
- Place Your Order: The Lytro Light Field Camera - Decide where to focus your image AFTER the image is taken. And then send it to someone else who can decide to re-focus it. (Tidbits.com)
- Lytro Camera: Focus After The Fact (Lytro.com)
The Next Step Isn't Here? Why Not? Come'on already!!!
- How Does Google's Self-Driving Car Drive? Short Answer: Lasers! Awesome. Where's mine? (MacWorld.com)
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