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The Tools |
- Muscle-memory, control panels, and you - Swedish-based filmmaker, editor, Colorist, and friend of the Tao, Nikolai Waldman, goes in-depth on control panels. He brings up one of my pet peeves in DaVinci Resolve: inefficient control surface layouts. (niwa.nu
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- [video] After Effects: Selective glow FX tutorial - If for some reason your color grading program isn't handy but After Effects is, Andrew Kramer shows you how to add a glow effect to a specific color in After Effects. (vimeo.com)
- Color Grading With Canon C-Log LUT
- Thoughts on his experience grading with Log footage. (tomparish.com)
- How To Break Into A Computer (and Prevent It From Happening To You) - Now you can't say you didn't know. (
lifehacker.com)
- Amazon's Cloud Player - App that streams, syncs and play your music offline for those long-day grading sessions (
lifehacker.com)
- Creating A Feature Film DCP USing OpenDCP - An update to an older article that benefits from a year of additional experience creating DCPs. (thefilmbakery.com)
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The Business |
- Netflix wants to replace the movie theater - The company's Chief Content Officer may have tipped off what the company is planning in a speech at the Film Independent Forum. Hint: Netflix wants to become a major studio. (huffingtonpost.com)
- Mobile 4K - Philip Bloom looks at why anyone would want to shoot 4K with their mobile phone. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 shoots 4K, although the company isn't really pushing that feature. Interesting post. (philipbloom.net)
- VFX then and now
- Star Wars without John Dykstra wouldn't have been the same movie. Neither would Star Trek, Spiderman, X-Men First Class, and many more great films. Dykstra looks back on his career, and share his thoughts on the state of VFX today. (library.creativecow.net)
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Friends & Family |
- [Member's Only] Resolve 10: Using Node Based PTZR For Lens Spot Removal - (mixinglight.com)
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Outside 'The Box' |
- [free] Low budget filmmaking - Vashi Nedomansky is offering a free plugin to emulate anamorphic lenses for After Effects at his website. In addition to the free project, Vashi has a great post on the anamorphic look. Very cool. (vashivisuals.com
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- Offline to Online - Adobe's Premiere Pro and Apple's FCP X are in the spotlight as Master Editor Oliver Peters shows you how both nle's make it very easy to do this. (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- [video] Run Like Hell
- Special effects guru Stu Maschwitz goes outside the box to get a movie made by creating a pitch trailer and posting it on YouTube. Watch for the link to the behind the scenes video at the end. (youtube.com)
- Duke it out - Cinematographer Shane Hurlbut, ASC, does an exhaustive test of ARRI Alexa vs Canon C300. It's a 2.8K vs 4K smackdown. I can't say I like the new horizontal site layout, though. (
hurlbutvisuals.com)
- [video] Shot by shot - Missouri University of Science and Technology's Max Tohline deconstructs the art of editing in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. This is a very well done 15 minute video revealing patterns, images of thought, and pure musical rhythm. (vimeo.com
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- Pay it forward - freelance film editor, Jonny Elwyn, is writing an ebook on how to be a successful freelance creative. He needs input from you through a 6 question survey on his site. Take a brief moment and help him out by answering the questions. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
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[video] Assassin's Creed - RED takes you behind the scenes with Corridor Digital, a full-fledged production company on YouTube. Corridor is in production on their latest fan film 'AC4: The Devil's Spear,' shot on EPIC and SCARLET. (red.com)
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Edumacate Yer'self |
- DaVinci Resolve 10: Color For Non-Colorist - Taught by Andrew Balis. November 9th, West Hollywood, CA (easyresolve.eventbrite.com)
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Current Colorist Control Surface Drivers |
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Sunday Morning Fun(nies) |
- Scared silly - Saturday Night Live parody of what a Wes Anderson Horror film might look like. (nbc.com)
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Go ahead, make my day - Filmmaker Vashi Nedomansky has an old school editing tip from the steenbeck days. What's the proper length of film for a gunshot click (here). And if you asked: What is a steenbeck? Click (here). (
@vashikoo)
- [video] Buckle up and get down - The inflight video goes to crazy new heights. Virgin Atlantic enlists the help of Jon M. Chu, the director of GI Joe: Retaliation, to create an over the top safety video with an ultra-hip song-and-dance number. (youtube.com
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- [video] Skate, rinse & mop - A video that takes the Huckleberry Finn approach to cleaning your crib . . . make it so much fun that anyone will volunteer to do it. (youtube.com)
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Gear Heads |
- Hot Rodding Your Mac Pro Tower - With A 3.46GHz Twelve Core Processor. In case you're not thrilled by jumping to the new MacPro's un-Tower form factor. (
barefeats.com)
- CalDigit's $199 Thunderbolt Station - Shipping November 4th. (macrumors.com)
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New Kids on the Block |
- Oops, they did it again - Apple shows, once again, that its not against changing up its software, no matter what customers want. iMovie for iOS projects no longer import into the Mac. (macworld.com
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- [review] Thinner, lighter, best? - CNET reviews the new iPad Air. (reviews.cnet.com)
- Blackmagic updates
- Desktop Video 9.8.1 software supports OS X Mavericks for DeckLink, UltraStudio and Intensity. (blackmagicdesign.com)
- Ready, set, shoot - Cinematographer Shane Hurlbut, ASC, shows you how to set up menus for Cinematic Capture on the Canon 1DC. (hurlbutvisuals.com
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Getting Ahead |
- Never Let Success Get in the Way of Creativity - New York-based artist and designer Joshua Davis tackles a subject that few of us think about when we reach the top: don't let success get in the way of your creativity. (99u.com
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- 4 ways you can use body language - To help influence your success. (99u.com)
- 8 Pitfalls on the Path to Success - The most dangerous? Check out #8. (
inc.com)
- Climbing to the top - Why is it some are successful and others are not? What is the one key difference between massive success and a face plant. (linkedin.com
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Showcase |
- [video] Borsen
- We'll be honest and say upfront that we have no idea what the narrator of this 90 second commercial is saying. But we're not showcasing it for the words, it's the visuals that caught our eye. It's the creative work of a Norwegian production company. The grade on this spot (or advert, as our European readers call it) is tight and consistent, particularly in the shadows. Well done. (vimeo.com)
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The Next Step is a Doozy |
- Imagine - empowering children through photography is the goal of the website, 100 Cameras. The children in the program live in poverty. By sharing their stories through photography, they are given the opportunity to help improve their communities. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of the photos goes back to that child's community. Awesome! (
100cameras.org)
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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. Happy Grading!
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