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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. Issue CLXXX A TaoOfColor.com Publication Publisher: Pat Inhofer Managing Editor: Jim
Wicks
The Craft |
- How Colors Got Their Names - Across the ages of human linguistic development, when we start naming colors we usually name them in the same order. Think for a moment the first two colors
that usually get named. Then click through to see if you're right. (gizmodo.com)
- Colour Relationalism and the Real Deliverances of Introspection - About how people perceive colors. Given that I don't understand the Abstract of this paper, I don't think I'll be reading it. Instead, I'll keep an eye out on ArsTechnica for someone to transcribe it into normal English. (link.springer.com via TIG Mailing List)
- Color Theory - A good page to bookmark. Links to tools to help you choose colors, color palettes, etc. (zzolo.org via Tom Parish)
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The Tools |
- [Video] DaVinci Resolve and the New
Mac Pro - colorist Dado Valentic runs a suite of codecs through the New Mac Pro and sees which ones can maintain real-time playback while applying blur layers. If you grade with RED or Sony RAW codecs, this video will definitely interest you. (vimeo.com)
- Viewing Alexa LogC footage in FCPx - I had missed this built-in feature. (blog.abelcine.com)
- LUTs and FCPx - a 'behind-the-scenes' look at FCPx auto-recognizing which type of normalizing LUT to apply to your footage. Oliver also points out the shortcomings of
how FCPx implements this feature and offers up a more robust plug-in. (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- Scoping out Premiere Pro - a primer tutorial on using the reference monitor and video scopes in Adobe Premiere Pro. (premiumbeat.com)
- [video] Reinterpreting Image Analysis - a mostly
tongue-in-cheek tutorial on using the free app zoneSCOPE with DaVinci Resolve. The app is Windows-only and tries to show you pixel values within the Ansel Adams Zone system. (vimeo.com) More about this app (m2port.com).
- [Video] How to color correct video in Photoshop - Like the headline says. (fstoppers.com)
- Music to Edit, er... Color Grade by - If you're looking for fresh ideas for your music library. (provideocoalition.com)
- DaVinci Resolve 10 Keyboard - Blackmagic still hasn't released their keyboard shortcuts PDF. But Logitech has done their homework and produced a keyboard with the shortcuts burned on the keycaps. (logickeyboard.com)
- Creative Black and White Techniques in Premiere Pro - Using the Calculations effect and how it differs from the other (boring) filters you'll probably reach for first. (youtu.be via nofilmschool.com)
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The Business |
- No more film? Not so fast - At Paramount Pictures all-digital distribution doesn't actually mean all-digital. Less than two weeks after their widely reported announcement, they backtrack. (slashfilm.com)
- [video] Scoping things out - spend 52 minutes with Film Theorist and Historian David Bordwell as he explains how CinemaScope came to be, and how artists use the widescreen format. (vimeo.com)
- Britan sets new broadband speed record - in case you're worried that internet video is going
to saturate the internet. (stopthecap.com)
- CES 2014: TVs you don't need - thoughts on all the stuff that's trying to be shoved down consumers throats. Good read. (prolost.com)
- UHD content slow to grow in 2014 - good write-up on the
status of 4K TV sales and UHD content delivery. (hdtvtest.co.uk)
- If High Frame Rate projection is 'Uncanny Valley', can we improve upon 24 frames per second? - "Too high a frame rate seems to conflict with the willing suspension of disbelief. There may be a correlation here with the "uncanny valley" effect
that animators talk about . . . demonstrations showed quite conclusively that increasing the frame rate 25%, from 24 to 30 fps, delivered a substantial improvement in image quality." Great article. If you're fascinated by this subject then you need to read it. (filmjournal.com)
- UK DI scene undergoing shakeup - Goldcrest poached a
top Company3 executive... while several of Company3's colorists resigned. London is a-buzz. (broadcastnow.co.uk)
- Booth Babes don't work - NAB isn't far away and all those vendors are busy deciding if they need to hire scantily clad booth babes to woo in potential clients. This
article suggests they'd be wasting their money. (techcrunch.com)
- OLED gets the backseat to 4K TV - "it'll be several years before OLED TV hits the mainstream, as all bar one television maker focus their efforts on ultra high-definition (UHD) displays instead." Plus other interesting observations about the introduction of affordable OLED TVs. (hdtvtest.co.uk)
- Which cameras were used on 2014 Oscar-Nominated films? - Interesting. Mostly for the domination of a single camera. (nofilmschool.com)
- Tesla and Adobe: Why continuous deployment may mean continuous customer disappointment - "While it may seem
irrational, inefficient and illogical, the reality is that people like shiny new toys. They want newer things. Often. And they want to be the ones who own them, control them and decide when they want to change them." (linkedin.com)
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Friends & Family |
MixingLight.com is a companion membership website to TaoOfColor.com. Want to read a story listed here but not a member? A free 24-hour test drive is available. - [Resolve] Dealing with timecode: when rushes and proxies don't match - great Insight on how to deal with poorly created proxies. (mixinglight.com)
- Using the Tangent Element with SpeedGrade CC - this is
a free Insight demo'ing the Tangent Element and using it with SpeedGrade CC. (mixinglight.com)
- Resolve Live Grading Essentials - Get the low-down and demo of how this Resolve 10 feature works. (mixinglight.com)
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Outside 'The Box' |
- [video]
Cinematographer Phil Rhodes shows you the color styles on the Canon EOS-5D Mk. II, and how using different picture styles can affect the footage after color grading. (vimeo.com)
- Learn to be a better photographer - Dive into this post with
40 - count, 'em - 40 tips to help improve your photography. (petapixel.com)
- 10 films that can teach you about filmmaking - Check out #7, The Matrix. The filmmakers used color as an important part of the story-telling. (tasteofcinema.com)
- A brief history of retouching - as Colorists you are sometimes called upon to do more
than just grade video. Sometimes our work includes photos, and then some. Be sure to click the embeds to find many source articles. (fastcodesign.com)
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Edumacate Yerself |
- [Webinar] Crafting the perfect
image: from camera to color grading - a webinar on working in Adobe's Creative Cloud ecosystem. Click through to sign up for this free webinar on Feb. 6. (adobe.com)
- Tech Breakfast: Grading with Avid and FilmLight - Learn about the Baselight for Avid plug-in. Breakfast then seminar. Feb. 5, London. (root6.com)
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Sunday Morning Fun(nies) |
- How to Live-Stream the Super Bowl on your
iPad or iPhone - (9to5mac.com)
- The Humorous guide to American Football - in under 3 minutes. (vimeo.com)
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Amazing ideas to make your house awesome - In a ridiculous kind of way. (boredpanda.com)
- A Conference Call in Real-Life - Kind'a funny. (youtu.be)
- Everyday Technology You're Using Wrong - Yeah, I won't be doing that thing with my car remote any time soon... (youtu.be)
- [Video] Space Oddity - this music video shot on board the International Space Station has just hit 20 million views. We featured it early last year. It's worth another watch. (youtu.be)
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Gear Heads |
- AJA ships Io 4K - for Thunderbolt 2 devices. Press Release (cgw.com)
- A pro reviews the Mac Pro - There's a TON of info in
here for video pros to digest. Including this juicy morsel about the sad state of OpenCL support on the Mac: "Third-party developers receive almost no technical support from Apple, which is why it is more difficult to develop anything OpenCL on Mac than in Windows/Linux." Put on a fresh pot of coffee, then click the link. You'll be reading for a while. (arstechnica.com via @CarolinaFCPUG)
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Getting Ahead |
- Don't get screwed - you know your craft, you're good at it, but do you know
contracts? This is the business stuff that every creative should know. (99u.com)
- Want to be truly productive? - End each day like this... - (inc.com)
- How to do self-criticism right -
Links to several articles on ways of being productively critical of yourself. (inc.com)
- 10 LinkedIn blunders that make you look like an amateur - some good tips in here if you haven't updated your LinkedIn profile in a while. (inc.com)
- Seven 52-Week challenges for a productive year - No. You don't have to do all seven of them! Just pick one. (lifehacker.com)
- On doing the work - "Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens." Yup. That's the point of my Grade-Alongs. Read the full post for its context. (sethgodin.typepad.com)
- Debunking the 10,000 Hour Rule - Not so much
debunking as restating that putting in the time is one small part of the 'rule'. (brainpickings.org)
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The Next Step is a Doozy |
- Elderly color-blind man sees color for the first time - after
falling. Interesting. (seattle.cbslocal.com)
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A Step Too Far? |
- The Congressman who went off the grid - Could you do this? And if you could, should you? This retired Congressman thinks so. And he has his reasons. (politico.com)
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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. Happy Grading!
5,450+ Stories Now Shared The Book Shelf
- Color Correction Handbook, Updated - Alexis Van Hurkman has updated his Color Correction Handbook, which has set the standard for learning all things color correction. (amazon.com)
- Color Correction Look Book - This is the second part of the Color Correction Handbook, exploring the creative techniques for over 200 different visual looks. A sort-of recipe book for
colorists. (amazon.com)
- The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - Read how a dozen different colorists grade the same footage with the same gear, differently. A fantastic approach to learning the craft of color grading by Steve Hullfish. (amazon.com)
- Autodesk Smoke Essentials - Walk through grading a short sci-fi film (with downloadable ProRes4444 source material) while learning the ultimate online finishing app... Autodesk Smoke. (amazon.com)
- Color Grading with Avid and Symphony - Written for version 6. Fully applicable to version 7. I was a contributor. (amazon.com)
- Adobe Speedgrade CC: Classroom in a Book - A solid book for a solid grading app. (amazon.com)
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