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Editor's Note: This is a new-product-launch-with-a-sudden-impending-Hurricane shortened edition of the Newsletter. If I manage to maintain power throughout Hurricane Sandy, expect my latest training, Dead Man's Lake: The Grade-Along to launch at MIDNIGHT on Halloween (Eastern Time). Very exciting times. Too exciting, thanks to Sandy... 

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Dead Man's Lake: The Grade-Along

Launch Date: Midnight* Halloween.

*new york city time

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The Craft

• [Video] The Effect of Color - From PBS Digital comes a short 7-minute treatise on all aspects of color. I particularly like the interview with the two GIF animation artists. My favorite piece of advice, "Throw in some black & white". Worth the watch. (filmmakeriq.com)

The Tools

• [Video] Resolve and Premiere CS 6: Working with Unsupported Media - The title is misleading. It's really about unsupported effects and transitions, what happens when those effects and transitions get imported into Resolve and what happens when those all get sent from Resolve back into Premiere. The upshot? It's a mess. Note: The bit in the video that Premiere Pro CS6 is equivalent to the FCP XML... not so much. From what I can tell, Premiere Pro is using a 5 year old version of the FCP XML language (version 4). Resolve supports version 5. (youtube.com via @JimWicks)

• DaVinci Resolve V9 Shortcut Cheat Sheet - Title says it all. (iLoveHue.net via liftgammagain.com)

• SpeedGrade: Applying Creative Looks across Multiple Clips - How to use Grading Tracks in SpeedGrade. (blogs.adobe.com)

• Scopebox 3.1 Update - "New Palette: HML Balance - shows 3 vectorscope-like traces of your source, separated into Highs, Mids and Lows". I'm looking forward to upgrading my rig next month and finally giving ScopeBox a nice long look... precisely for this 3 vectorscope trace. (divergentmedia.com)

• Creating a Film Look on a Video Budget - A tutorial that focuses on using Tiffen's DFX software. (richardharringtonblog.com)

 

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The Business

• Canon reduces forecast - As Smartphones start replacing Cameras. I ask: What's the Over / Under on the Galaxy implementing RAW 4:4:4 before the iPhone? (businessweek.com)

• Amazon Eyeing Everyone's Lunch: Bezos going after Apple, Netflix, Big Data, and Cloud Computing - Basically, it's 'The World or Bust'. (forbes.com)

Outside 'The Box'

• Stunning fluid sculptures - "Although he dabbles in other wildlife photography, his primary focus has been water drops--or, more precisely, the collision of water drops dyed in contrasting colors." (fastcodesign.com via @Millchannel)

Edumacate Yer'self

• Black Magic Camera presentation in NYC - At my old stomping grounds, The Moving Pictures Collective of NYC... the Diamond brothers are presenting the camera. November 8 at AbelCine. (eventbrite.com)

• Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 / Switch Coupon - Switchers can save 40% on Adobe products. I've been digging the Creative Cloud subscription at $30 / month. Can't be beat. Ends Nov. 30 (unless they extend it. Again). (adobe.com  via @iamcolorist)

• [Video] We Make Movies U - A collection of tutorials for FCPx with a heavy focus on RED integration. (themovieswemake.com)