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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 CCV
A TaoOfColor.com Publication Publisher: Pat Inhofer Managing Editor: Jim Wicks
From the Publisher |
- Final Reminder: The
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[change of subject] - Summer is in full swing here in the Northern Hemisphere.
- And with the recent Tao HQ move to tropically sunny (and thunderstormy) Orlando,
your humble publisher has made an executive decision:
- Every August the Tao Colorist Newsletter will go semimonthly.
- We'll pick up our normal schedule the Sunday following Labor Day Weekend, here in the USA.
- And this week's edition is a good example of why...
- We're running short on Tools and Gear stories - as the rest of the internet is also preparing to take August off
(or so it seems).
- As they say: If you can't beat them...
- And ever since Jim Wicks came on board last year, we've been publishing so consistently—I just don't feel bad about this decision!
- Besides - I'm neck deep in
recording an 11-hour training series about DaVinci Resolve 11 and could really use a few extra Saturdays to wrap up the recordings by mid-August.
- Enjoy these upcoming alternating Sundays where you can turn off the internet and not feel bad about missing the Tao Colorist Newsletter!
- We'll see you in two weeks.
Happy
Grading! |
The Craft |
- Working with a Colorist - check out this pithy blog piece by a filmmaker who posted his top 19 tips for working with a color professional. We cannot say enough how much the first one is so right on... (chrisjonesblog.com)
- The Notebooks of Paul Klee - "The writings which compose Paul Klee's theory of form production and pictorial form have the same importance and the same meaning for modern art as had Leonardo's writings which composed his theory of painting for Renaissance art." Includes links to PDFs of this work. Good stuff. (farnamstreetblog.com)
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The Tools |
- NLE Color Tools - some
people would rather use the basic color correction tools within an NLE instead of a dedicated grading app. Master Editor Oliver Peters says Apple and Adobe are not treating their color tools as an afterthought. (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- Color for the Masses - ColorDirector2 Ultra is a prosumer app worth checking out as color grading starts
gaining mindshare in that market. Click through for a review. (provideocoalition.com)
- Grading the Sony A7S with SLog2 - Blog post includes a few downloadable LUTs for working with this camera. (eoshd.com via Marc Wielage)
- Download LUTs - for
Blackmagic, Canon EOS, GoPro moving those images to Rec709. (divisiontv.com)
- How to get vibrant color from your flat footage - with links to a video and additional reading. (nofilmschool.com)
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The Business |
- Why Filmmakers Fail - ever
been on a production that went nowhere? Marketing and Production Consultant David K. Greenwald offers 6 reasons why. (trulyfreefilm.hopeforfilm.com)
- 4K tvs: 5% of global market share - "Fairly minimal, but still steady progress considering 4K made up four
percent of all TVs shipped in April, three percent in March and two percent in February." (hdtvtest.co.uk)
- [PDF] EBU policy statement on Ultra HD TV - "This document contains an important and fairly complex statement. It may only be reproduced and distributed in its entirety. Partial quotation is strictly forbidden." This ridiculous restriction
prevents me from quoting their conclusion, "The TC believes that the current '4K Ultra-HD' approach of the consumer electronics industry is unsatisfactory and will be of limited success in broadcasting." I suppose you'll have to click the link to read the full 4-page PDF of their carefully crafted, un-quotable-lest-it-crumbles reasoning. (tech.ebu.ch)
- Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa - "Verizon is deliberately
constraining capacity from network providers like Level 3 who were chosen by Netflix to deliver video content requested by Verizon's own paying broadband consumers." And Verizon has provided the data that seems to prove it. The comments are interesting, too. (blog.level3.com via @timbray)
- LG to Develop 60"+ Flexible Transparent 4K OLED - by 2014. You'll be able to roll it into a tight little tube. (hdtvtest.co.uk)
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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 MixingLIght member? A free 24-hour test drive is
available. - Attended Grading: Starting a Color Grading Session -
"Our job in that first hour of a color grading session is not to pick one shot and finish it to 100% with windows, qualifiers and 20 nodes. No! Our job in that first critical hour is to show the director as much various options and looks across as many scenes as possible so we can build a profile in our minds of what they DO want." Great advice in here from Dan Moran. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Resolve 11's Render Cache, Part 2: Smart Caching - "with Smart cache enabled, Resolve automatically renders out the initial debayering using the settings I've set for each shot - and if I enable 'background rendering', idle time becomes render time! Very useful on long-form projects." My Insight covers the additional features enabled with the
'Smart' option selected for Caching. (mixinglight.com)
- Improving the Client Experience - "In this Insight, I want to share with you a sort of a check list for how I've been able to bring many of the things that makes the client experience great at a larger facility to my own small shop." Lots of good ideas from colorist Robbie Carman in here. (mixinglight.com)
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Outside 'The Box' |
- ProRes by the Numbers -
dive into this interesting blog post that compares the quality of the ProRes images coming from the Blackmagic Pocket Camera. (divisiontv.com)
- How to incorporate the Color of the Year into your site - Find out Pantone's Color of 2014 and how to incorporate it into your web design. (colourlovers.com)
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Edumacate Yer'self |
- Blackmagic Design Day - Register to attend. New York City. August 13th. Your humble Tao Newsletter editor will be manning the Resolve station in NYC. If you drop in, say hi and
let me know you're a reader! (blackmagicdesign.com)
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Sunday Morning Fun(nies) |
- [video] Father Knows Best - Dads: How to do your daughter's hair in 17 seconds. Forget the complicated buns and braids ...this Dad Method is tried and true. (youtube.com)
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Weekend Warriors |
- [video]
Premium Cables: Do you need them? - the answer to the question. (filmmakeriq.com)
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Gear Heads |
- GeForce GTX 780 6G - Got an older Mac Pro tower? This graphics card may just sit in the sweet spot between speed and price (unless your apps rely mostly on OpenCL). (barefeats.com)
Fastest Laptop in the World - what's the opposite of a Macbook Air? Maybe the Dell M6800. Big, square and packed with RAM, CPU and GPU power. Dell claims it's the fastest laptop on the planet. Is it? (redsharknews.com)
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Getting Ahead |
- Wave: An
online accounting tool for indie creatives - a quick overview of this invoicing tool. Personally, I've become fond of Harvest, which makes time tracking and invoicing insanely easy... allowing the Tao Treasurer to invoice clients without missing a beat. (nofilmschool.com)
- Get it in writing - why you absolutely must have a written job offer. (themuse.com)
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Showcase |
- [video] Toyota Today - the tone of this new Toyota commercial is very nice, in both color and storyline. (vimeo.com)
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The Next Step Is a Doozy |
- [video] Wood You Try This? - if you have dirty vinyl records and want to hear a satisfying sound try cleaning your vinyls
with wood glue. The proof is in the listening. (youtube.com)
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A Step Too Far? |
- Brick-A-Pic: Turn Selfies into vanity Lego artwork? - Just upload your selfie, get your Lego bricks self-portrait arranged automagically. It's a Kickstarter project, so there's time yet to (not) fund it. (arstechnica.com)
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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you in two weeks. Happy Grading!
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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)
- Digital Cinematography: Fundamentals, Tools, Techniques and Workflows - Don't let the title fool you. I'm only a third way through this book and its explanations of how digital images are recorded, sampled and viewed is essential knowledge for anyone who's craft intersects with digital images. Not light reading. But not filled with math either. I highly recommend this book. (amazon.com)
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