[TaoColorist] Sunday Morning Reading (CES On Displays)
Published: Sun, 01/15/12
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The Tao Colorist
for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sunday.
Issue LXXVI Brought to you by: Tao of Color.com
The Craft
- [Video] Tutorial: Grading RED in Resolve for a Sunrise Look - Good tutorial with nice little Resolve tips and tricks... including the only way to see your softness settings with the Polygon Power Window. (presynkt.com)
- Color Grading 'Nocturnal Migration' - Colorist Warren Eagles shares the twists and turns as he pre-grades (and then does the final grade) on a beer commercial. He offers some good thoughts on building a client relationship. (iColorist.com)
- Review: Precision Panels for Nucoda - Colorgrader.net has a good review of the new panels for Nucoda's color grading system. I got to see them in action just before the holidays and they're impressive. (ColorGrader.net)
- [iBook] Color Uncovered - An interesting-looking ebook all about Color. Includes interactive features for exploring the colors around us. I'll be checking it out this weekend. (iTunes.apple.com via Marcin Zwolski)
- 24p Judder and 60i Conversion - Yes. The annoying little artifact of 24p recording... judder. And how 60i conversion can reduce it - unless you're a 24fps fundamentalist, in which case you like judder. Which reminds me - I once got into a huge HUGE fight with a good friend who refused to believe that theatrical projectors use special shutters to project each frame of 24fps up to three times... (blogs.abelcine.com)
The Tools
- Assimilate Announces Scratch 6.1 and Support for RED SDK 4.2 - New options for working with HDR images, support for the upcoming Tangent Element control surface, SDI outputs via AJA Kona cards. Read the press release for more details. (AssimilateInc.com)
- Top 5 Ways to Avoid Catastrophe In Post - Point #2 says it all. Read the details to understand what it takes. (StudioDaily.com)
- Avid Media Composer and Avid Symphony: What's the Difference? - Not as big as you might think. Reminds me of the difference between Davinci Resolve and Davinci Resolve Lite. (zsyst.com)
- Avid Media Composer in a DSLR World - I think I missed this post when it first went up... (DylanReeve.com)
- Avid or Adobe Premiere: A False Choice - Who says it's an either / or decision? (BiscardiCreative.com)
- Are PCs Poised to Take Back the Edit Suite? I've been wondering the same thing myself. Included are good links looking at the render speeds of PC-based edit suites. (SpliceVine.com)
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The Business
- CES 2012: The Goods - Lots of news coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show this year. Including lots of developments with monitors. From giant LED TVs, to 4k displays, to a huge range of 3D TVs - this post give nice commentary. (NegativeSpaces.com)
- Getting Immersed in Hugo and 3D - This article is a great example of one line of thinking about Scorsese's 'Hugo'. Me? I still don't buy it. (DigitalCinemaReport.com)
- Movie Crowds Dip To A 16-Year Low - And if you factor in population growth, which this article does not, the picture is even more bleached. (news.yahoo.com)
- Is The Entertainment Industry Dying? - Ummm... Not. (PhilipHodgetts.com)
- JVC's 4k camera for $5k - Records to a Variable Bit Rate h.264 codec. [sarcasm] O' joy o' happy day [/sarcasm]. (NoFilmSchool.com)
Outside 'The Box'
- Lighting Strategies: 'Hard Light' vs 'Soft Light' - What's the diff? (ProVideoCoalition.com)
- Essential Typography for Screen Design - Because finishers should have a basic grasp of this stuff. (FilmmakerIQ.com)
- 'Similaar Flaat' DSLR Picture Profile - Designed to achieve more natural skin tones. (NoFilmSchool.com)
- Sony FS100 Picture Profile: Emulating Kodachrome (FrankGlencairn.com)
- Sound Is Not That Important - I believe the title for this post is is written with a heavy dose of irony. (MasteringFilm.com)
Edumacate Yer'self
- San Francisco SuperMeet - They have a variety of Workshops including several DaVinci Resolve Workshops (hosted by good friend of the Tao, Alexis Van Hurkman) and two workshops on D-Cinema. Friday, January 27. (EventBrite.com)
- New York City: New & Portable Studio Recorders - AbelCine is hosting a 3-hour workshop featuring five different digital recorders, including a presentation on the new CineDeckRX recorder. Tuesday, January 17. (EventBrite.com)
- Why Join A User Group? - As a former User Group President, I completely agree with this post. (MasteringFilm.com)
- [Free Demo] NYC: Resolve with Warren Eagles - Warren's in NYC later this month for his small group training. He'll also be giving a free demo at Tekserve on DaVinci Resolve. (MEWShop.com)
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Sunday Morning Fun(nies)
- [Video] Fotoshop: The Beauty Regimen - Hilarious spoof of a beauty product guaranteed to make you look like the cover of a fashion magazine. (Vimeo.com via James Wicks)
- The Sketchbook of Susan Kare - She designed many of the original icons for the Macintosh interface. Includes an fun explanation of the 'command' symbol found on every Mac keyboard since... forever. (blogs.plos.org)
- [Video] The Muppets: Saw Trailer - Don't let the kids see this one. There are no happy endings in this Muppet movie. (YouTube.com)
- [iApp] Action Movie FX - Alien invasion, car blowing up, machine gun attack... all in your backyard (or happening to your neighbor's house) and all on your iPhone. (HeroComplex.latimes.com)
- [Video] Touch Interfaces Everywhere - If you can put a transducer and receiver on it, it can be a touch interface. (Kottke.org)
- [Podcast] Why Did Lard Fall Out of Favor? - Yes foodies, I've wondered this myself. (Kottke.org)
- Plunge Your iPhone Into Water, No Case Required - After coating it in some new polymer. I wonder if I could do the same with an FSI LCD for undersea grading while vacationing in the Caribbean? (MacWorld.co.uk)
Gear Heads
- [Video] CES 2012: Sony's 'Crystal LED' - Technology preview of a new class of LED display. It's not an LCD backlit with LED. Rather each pixel is made up of 3 LEDs - Red, Green and Blue and the LEDs are viewed directly. That's 6 million individual LED lights in a 1080p display and burns only 70 watts. (YouTube.com)
- Keeping Up With the Firmware - You know how every time you buy a product they collect your email address for 'warranty purposes'? You know how they never use that email address to alert you when there's a firmware update to aforementioned product? Apparently the folks at AbelCine noticed too... Here's an update on the latest Firmware releases for a few displays and cameras. (blog.abelcine.com)
- BlackMagic Intensity Shuttle with Thunderbolt - 10-bit capture and playback via HDMI from your computer's Thunderbolt connection. (ProVideoCoalition.com)
- LaCie Announces Latest High-Speed Thunderbolt Drives (StudioDaily.com)
- MOTU Debuts It's First Thunderbolt Capture Device - Looks like the Big Daddy to BlackMagic's Intensity Shuttle. Price is TBD... meaning it ain't shipping yet. (StudioDaily.com)
- Will 2012 Be the Year of Thunderbolt? In case you want more to read on this topic... (ArsTechnica.com)
- How to Properly Clean All Your Gadgets - Without ruining them. (LifeHacker.com)
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Your Career
- How To Keep Your Home Office Professional and Productive - I really need to print out this article and keep it posted on the refrigerator. (DareDreamerMag.com via NotesOnVideo.blogspot.com)
- Understanding Tiredness and Self-Control - And understanding that your brain has a limited capacity for sustained, focused, directed concentration. Don't fight it. Take a break instead. (Psycotactics.com)
- Why Inspiration Matters - But first, how do you define inspiration? And how does inspiration relate to creativity? (blogs.hbr.org)
- The 10 Happiest Jobs - The key to these jobs? A sense of meaningful work. (Forbes.com via @hurkman)
- How To Keep Your Cool During A Performance Review - These tips also work for client reviews of your color grades. (blogs.hbr.org)
fYou
- Stolen iPhone? Your iMessages May Be Going to the Wrong Place - Yup. Apple's messaging service continues sends your iMessages to your stolen phone even after it's been wiped and you've changed your passwords. Apple's solution? Turn off iMessaging on your stolen iPhone. Gee - how simple. (ArsTechnica.com)
The Next Step Is A Doozy
- Someday, Writing Code Will Be As Common As Farming? - Might writing software code become as core and as basic a skill as growing tomatoes or learning the three R's? (PhilipHodgetts.com)
A Step Too Far?
- Magisto: Software That Edits For You - Lots of discussions around the InterTubes about this new 'cloud-based' service that lets you upload your footage and you'll get back a magically edited piece. It cuts out all the boring stuff. And it only runs on your iOS phone. (imNotBruce.blogspot.com)
Inconceivable
- Twinkies Maker Hostess Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Did I already say, "Inconceivable!"? I guess that word doesn't mean what I thought it did. (online.wsj.com via Papa Tao)
Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. Happy Grading!
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