[TaoColorist] Sunday Morning Reading (The Waxes Edition)

Published: Sun, 05/12/13

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The Tao Colorist

Curated links of news, reviews, thoughts, career advice, and humor 
for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sunday.
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The Craft

  • Colorful Watercolor Art - Looking for color inspiration? Here's a good place to start. (colourlovers.com)
  • Illusion: Body Painted To Look Like Black & White Photo -  For a reality show, Drag Queen 'Detox' did 'her' makeup to look like she had stepped out of a black & white movie. That's right, these photos are not retouched to create this effect. Rather, it's a real-life makeup job. (huffingtonpost.ca via Gray Marshall)
  • DCP Explained: A pithy post on the difference between Interop and SMPTE DCP packages. (niwa.nu)
  • EDL Trouble: Hidden Characters - Having trouble loading up an EDL? It could be hidden characters that are ruining your day. (niwa.nu)

The Tools

  • [Resolve] The Summer Blockbuster 101 Tutorial - A pretty deep tutorial on the classic Orange and Teal look. Scroll down for an in-depth blog post that supplements the tutorial. (juanmelara.com.au)
  • [Forum] Calibration Puck For HP Dreamcolor? - One of the big selling points of HP's Dreamcolor is its specially created 10-bit capable calibration puck. According to this forum thread... it might not be quite so reliable. (liftgammagain.com)
  • H.265 Linkage - Want to get up to speed on the anointed successor to h.264? There are some good links in here to get you edumacated. Includes a contrary opinion. (splicevine.com)
  • [AE] Color Correcting: Typewriter - The grade shown in this post isn't dramatic. But it is interesting in how Stu used an After Effects 3D tracking layer to help isolate and track his grade. (prolost.com)
  • [Resolve] Log Mode: Differences When Using Mouse Versus Trackball - A forum thread identifying how Log corrections work differently if you're using the mouse versus a control surface in Resolve. (forums.creativecow.net)
  • Matching Shots and Working with Vectorscopes - "You'll probably want to cheat the overall color balance of one of these clips to match the other, and you can only really do this by eye. At the end of the day, viewer perception trumps the scopes". A good read. (provideocoalition.com)
  • Pimp Your Precision Panel - Got Nucoda panels? Want to know how to modify the config file to put your logo on the startup screen? Click through. (niwa.nu)
 

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Friends and Family

  • Tao of Color's 3-Day Color Correction Workshops - Learn the foundational principles of color grading while learning DaVinci Resolve in my brand-new 3-day workshops. Atlanta is in 17 days. Austin at the end of June. Sign up now! Only 10 seats per workshop are available. (TaoOfColor.com)
  • [Video] Hello SpeedGrade CC - 'CC' is the new moniker for the next version of Adobe's Creative Suite. Robbie Carman blogs his Top 10 new features of SpeedGrade CC (to be released mid next month). (MixingLight.com)
  • Arri Alexa Workflows with Premiere Pro CC and SpeedGrade CC - In this Members-only article (non-members can sign up for 24 hour access) Robbie looks at how LUT-style workflows now integrate PrPro and SpeedGrade. (MixingLight.com)
  • [Audio] From the Mailbag: Cranky Clients and 'Grandma's Pink TV' - Team Mixing Light mixes it up in this members-only podcast answering two questions about dealing with clients. (mixinglight.com)
  • [Video] SpeedGrade CC Learning Channel - Seven of these eight 'Intro to SpeedGrade CC' videos were done by MixingLight's Robbie Carman. Good stuff. (tv.adobe.com)

The Business

  • Will We Get A La Carte Cable Channel Selection? - Not according to a recent Variety article. The reasoning is interesting. (philiphodgetts.com)
  • Netflix Loses A Chunk Of Content As Studios Switch Alliances - I predict: In a few years Netflix will have them back. (reelseo.com)
  • YouTube Launches First Paid Channel Subscriptions - "Corman, a producer and director whose influential cult classics like "Deathrace 2000" and "Piranha" earned him an honorary Oscar in 2009, said he's kept his 400-film library off of video streaming sites until now." (tvnewscheck.com)

Outside 'The Box'

Edumacate Yer'self

  • [Webinar] Shooting, Color, and Post With The Sony F5, F55 and F65 - For Scratch. May 29, 10 PST. I'm assuming that's military time. This page also contains an archive of their past webinars. (assimilateinc.com)
  • [Workshop] Cine-tal Color Workflow Session - Lejeune, Singapore, June 21. "This class provides a working knowledge of color management for digital film and video production, digital intermediate (DI) and video post-production, VFX, HD and film print dailies, and digital projection." (media-asylum.com)
  • [Conference] Inside The Cutting Room: Sight, Sound and Story - "Anyone interested in what happens when the cameras stop rolling in the fast-evolving craft of visual storytelling is going to find something that speaks to them here." June 8, NYC (nycppnews.com)
  • [Training] DaVinci Resolve: Creative Looks - I don't remember if I featured this training from friend of the Tao, Alexis Van Hurkman, when it was released just before NAB. I've heard nothing but good things about it. (rippletraining.com)
 
Current Colorist Control Surface Drivers
 JL Cooper Eclipse Avid Artist Color Tangent

Software: v2.9.3

 Mac: v2.7.1

Hub: v1.0.9

Color Plug-in: v 1.0.5
 PC: v2.7.1
Wave Firmware: v1.9

Updated:
Jan. 2

 Updated: April 15 Updated: Feb. 7, 2012
 

Sunday Morning Fun(nies)

  • [Video] Superb Stop Motion Car Chase - Not safe for kids. (topgear.com)
  • [Video] My thoughts EXACTLY - What was my reaction the first time I found my Wacom secret nib holder? Precisely. Note: Lower your speakers - someone might think that you are sick (or having an orgasm). NSFK.  (youtube.com via @twainrichardson)
  • [Video] Hitler Learns About Adobe's New Creative Cloud Model - You know the scene. This one is well executed. (youtube.com)
  • Those Ridiculous Cell Tower Trees - A collection of images. (kottke.org)
  • Turn Your Smart Phone Into A Tricorder - With these apps. The Tao Treasurer has already downloaded the leaf and bug apps. (io9.com)

Weekend Warriors

  • The End Of Plasma? - Kind of like one of those 'How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse' articles. A look at alternatives to Plasma displays. (reviews.cnet.com)
  • [Video] IlluminRoom Projector Explodes XBox Action Out Of Your TV - Alright... this absolutely talks to the teenager in me! (news.cnet.com)
  • Ask For Cash Instead Of A Voucher - When you're bumped from a flight. (lifehacker.com)
  • [Video] Add A Car Horn To Your Bike - So others can hear you. This is a special item I've put in just for my Mixing Light partner Dan Moran, now that he's riding his bike to work through London traffic. At 3:06 into this video you can hear the horn. (lifehacker.com)

Gear Heads

  • Building A CustoMac: Buyer's Guide April 2013 - Updated. (tonymacx86.com)
  • GPUs: Are They Faster on 2010 Mac Pro Than On The 2008 / 2009? Cick through to find out. (barefeats.com)
  • 'Fixing' Slow Wake For MacBook Pro With Retina Display - How to disable this battery saving feature. (ewal.net)     
 
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New Kid on the Block

  • Adobe Adopts Subscription-Only Model - The backdrop to this week's social media explosion. (studiodaily.com)
  • Adobe In The Cloud - A summary of the social media explosion. (dylanreeve.com)
  • Adobe CEO: The Truth About Creative Cloud - Answering common misconceptions (and yes, there was a lot of F.U.D. out there this week). (mashable.com via @TheGenesisProj)
  • Partly Cloudy - Oliver Peters turns his eye on Adobe's new subscription model and offeres a mixed review. (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
  • Improved GPU Support In Adobe Premiere - A list of graphics cards supported in the new version (giving you a compelling reason not to sit on CS 6). (blogs.adobe.com via @Noctylux)

Career

  • Why You Should Wait Before Reacting To Bad Ideas - The danger of responding to 'bad' creative work immediately. And the power of sitting on your initial reaction.(99u.com)
  • To Succeed In Work and Life, Be Mr. T - "A T-shaped man has two characteristics. First, he has a depth of knowledge and a focused expertise in one skill or discipline. . . Second, he has an interest in and a willingness to use a broad range of skills and disciplines outside his area of expertise." I'm down with this. (artofmanliness.com)
  • [Video] The Proper Form For A  7 Minute Full Workout - An interval workout featured in the NY Times. Takes only 7 minutes a day. (lifehacker.com)

Tweet of the Week

Whenever I pull up to a stop light and no ones in front of me, I roll down the window and yell "#FIRST!", just to establish dominance. @DoubleDag

Next Step Is A Doozy

  • The Perfectly Secure Quantum Internet - "So any attempt to eavesdrop on a quantum message cannot fail to leave telltale signs of snooping that the receiver can detect. That allows anybody to send a "one-time pad" over a quantum network which can then be used for secure communication using conventional classical communication." Alright. That's cool. And then if they can make it wireless! (mashable.com)

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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. Happy Grading!
  
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