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The Craft |
- Name that blue - Take a sip from your morning cup of java, and see how many company brands you can correctly identify from their particular hue of blue. One problem: the game isn't much fun if you don't know most of the brands. (namethatblue.com)
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Timing is everything - Canadian-based photographer Dan Carr delves into an interesting topic... When should you convert your image to black and white? (prophotocoalition.com)
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The Tools |
- Creating vintage looks - This is the final part of a 4-part series by Colorist Aaron Williams on creating a vintage look. If you're wondering how colorists build their node trees in DaVinci Resolve, this is a good example. (aaronwilliams.tv)
- [DaVinci Resolve] Fovea Aspect: PowerGrade - 24 grading presets for DaVinci Resolve. Available for $99 (U.S.), includes video tutorial. (helloluxx.com)
- GoPro Studio 2.0: Get Your GoPro Footage Into FCPX
- A review of the new GoPro StudioPro 2 app designed to prep your footage for import into an NLE. Plus some interesting details on the color grading options if you keep the footage in the Cineform codec. (fcp.co)
- [download] Blackmagic Pocket Camera: Download 6 Green-Screen Clips - In case you want to play with the format. (
nofilmschool.com by V Renee)
- Making Sense of File Organization - Colorist Aaron Williams has a very good blog story on the importance of organizing your project's data management properly. (aaronwilliams.tv
via @videoaaron)
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The Business |
- 4K Footage: What's the Diff? - Ultra HD, Quad HD, 4K HD, and just simply 4K. Are all these names the same thing? Should you shoot 4k even for 1080p delivery? Click to see some real-life samples - of down-sampled images. (blog.artbeats.com)
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Human Eyesight & 4K Viewing - Higher resolutions are only one of the factors contributing to our perception of detail. RED goes in-depth on the science of visual acuity in the world of 4K and higher resolutions. (red.com)
- Popcorn and ads, not a good combo
- According to a new study, eating popcorn at the movies makes you immune to the ads. Perhaps we should try this at home, watching TV. I love the last paragraph… which contains a suggestion that I doubt would go over well with movie-goers. (hollywoodreporter.com)
- Captain Philips
- A PR piece that does offer some insights into the workflow for director Paul Greengrass' film 'Captain Philips.' Company 3 London Senior Colorist Rob Pizzey discusses bits of the workflow. (fcp.co)
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Friends & Family |
- [members] Determining Your Rate: Hourly or Flat Rate? - The eternal question. Answered. (mixinglight.com)
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[members] Tinting Your Shadows to Create a 'Look' - My rule of thumb: Keep your deepest shadows black and you can sell almost any look. But once you've mastered that rule of thumb - you're free to break it. Dan Moran shows you how. (mixinglight.com)
- [members] Film LUTs in Resolve 10
- Using some new LUTs in Resolve 10 to help you get closer to the elusive 'film look'. (mixinglight.com)
- [blog] Colorist Profile: Juan Salvo - One of the MixingLight'ers (Robbie Carman) spends a half hour chatting with one of the Coloristos (Juan Salvo). The first in a new free series. (
mixinglight.com)
- [discount offer] SpectraCal Tao Colorist Newsletter Special Offer - In case you missed it in September, here's the link detailing an $800 savings on a hardware / software bundle to test the accuracy of your reference monitor and decide if it's time to get the display re-calibrated. Offer ends October 31, 2013. (archive.aweber.com
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Outside 'The Box' |
- Star Wars: 'Black Angel' - It is a 25-minute film, written, directed, and produced by Star Wars art director Roger Christian. It was made in 1979 with George Lucas' stamp of approval, playing before The Empire Strikes Back in European theaters and never seen again. Until now. Cool story. Click through for more details. (
latimes.com)
- [bts] Gravity - Mike Seymour from FXGuide goes in-depth on 'Gravity'. Interesting to note that in Mike's behind the scenes story, he states up front that the word 'post,' as in post-production, does NOT apply to this film. Want to know why? Read on. (
fxguide.com)
- [video] How to be creative - Being creative is considerably more complex than you know. Thought-provoking 10 minute video from PBS. (youtube.com)
- [video] Blast from the past
- 'How Animated Cartoons Are Made' is a documentary from the silent era of movies. It runs 10 minutes and was made in 1919. (cartoonresearch.com)
- [video] A Godfather meets a Goodfella
- Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese in an hour long conversation from 1997. Love those comfy sofas, like something out of an old Monty Python skit. That aside, this is good stuff, and well worth your time. (youtube.com)
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Edumacate Yer'self |
- LA ACM SIGGRAPH and VES: Color Grading - An update on the current trends in color science including Log, LUTs and DI workflows. Thursday October 27, 2013, Los Angeles (la.siggraph.org)
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Tao of Color 3-Day Workshop Fall Tour: Grade A Film, Learn DaVinci Resolve 10 - Intensive workshops offered by the Publisher of this newsletter. Put theory into action grading a real-life project. We'll be using Resove 10 Public Beta. Orlando starts November 1. After that - it'll 2014 before the next round of workshops!(TaoOfColor.com)
- Southeast Creative Summit
: October 25, 26, 27. The Tao and MixingLight will be doing a half-dozen workshops on color grading plus a few on business. The overall agenda is much broader than our craft, from pre- through post- production. Some very interesting workshops. Save $100 with the code: tao2013 (southeastcreativesummit.com)
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Sunday Morning Fun(nies) |
- [photos] It's a small world after all - It's amazing what you can do with a $250 camera, some die-cast miniature models and forced perspective. (petapixel.com)
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[video] Do not try this at home - You've heard of running with the bulls, but how about driving with the bulls? See if you can figure what this long-form commercial is trying to demonstrate, before they tell you at the end. (youtube.com)
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Gear Heads |
- [video] 40TB HDDs - Need more disk space? Try cookin' 'em with a laser. TDK has developed heat-assisted recording technology that dramatically increases your HDD's capacity. Should be cooked and ready to serve by 2020. (diginfo.tv)
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Getting Ahead |
- How to get more business - Filmmaker Mike Wilkinson offers up a bountiful list of tips on how to get more clients. Hint: make a better demo reel. Mike offers up video examples and plenty of easy to follow advice. (Part 1) (
Part 2)
- [review] The Lo-Down on In-Flight Wi-Fi - This is a decent roundup of the technologies behind inflight Wi-Fi. What you want, and what you don't. (nycaviation.com
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- [insight] Your Career IS Your Business - As a creative you wear two hats: artist and business owner. It's not easy making a living doing both, Author Rhonda Shaller offers some advice from her book, Create your Art Career. (99u.com via
@twainrichardson)
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Tweet of the Week |
I really love colour grading, I really do. Sometimes though I just want to mow lawns.
@BionicVincent
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Showcase |
- [video] Making art by hand - The craft of letterpress printing is artfully told in this edition of the Showcase. The filmmakers emailed us to say, "For this film we used a Canon 5Dii with Zeiss ZFs for 95% of shooting and 5% Red Scarlet with Leica R Primes. We colored in Davinci Resolve, going blue in the shadows and warm in the mids and highs. It made the reds and skin tones pop even more." Nice work. (
vimeo.com)
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The Next Step is a Doozy Yummy |
- The Scientific Secret of Fluffy Pancakes - Loyal readers of The Tao Colorist love to read the newsletter with their Sunday morning breakfast. If pancakes are on the menu this AM, we serve up the answer to an age old question - what makes pancakes so fluffy? Includes a recipe that allows you to turn making pancakes into a scientific experiment for the family. (
scientificamerican.com)
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A Step Too Far? |
- Oreos = Crack - According to a new study, Oreos are as addictive as cocaine - well, if you're a lab rat. (Seriously, they did a study on this... I suppose it provided a legal basis for having cocaine in the lab.) (
11alive.com via @walterbiscardi)
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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. Happy Grading!
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