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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 CCIX
A TaoOfColor.com Publication
Publisher: Pat Inhofer Managing Editor: Jim Wicks
The Craft |
- The History of a Color - the author of the books, 'Blue' and 'Black' adds a third color to his library. 'Green: The History of a Color' is a beautiful and richly illustrated book about the color green from prehistoric times to today. The New York Times has a review. (Amazon.com)
- [video] Going Dark: The Final Days Of Film Projection - "Going Dark profiles two projectionists during their last days on the job." (vimeo.com via Marc Wielage)
- What is Blue Light from our screens doing to our eyes? - "We've known for a
while that excessive screen time is not good for your sleep schedule, but the latest findings are overwhelmingly gloomy - and extend well beyond insomnia." Bad news not only for colorists but the entire post-production industry. (gigaom.com)
- [video] Clean your computer screens - after all this talk about computer screens and your eyes how do you clean your screens as
fast as possible? In less than 3 minutes you'll know how. (youtube.com)
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The Tools |
- [video] Color Grading in Speedgrade CC - director Stu Maschwitz shows you how to use Creative cloud 2014's mask tracking tools to color grade with Colorista II and Magic Bullet Looks 2.5. (redgiant.com)
- Nuke 9, Nukex, and Nuke Studio: Now in Open Beta - existing customers, go get your Open Beta. (thefoundry.co.uk)
- Resolve 11's Color Match: Or Does It? - Friend of the Tao Gray Marshall does a nice experiment on what others are finding... Resolve's Color Chart auto matching tool will give you very different results
depending on the angle of the camera to the chart itself. (vimeo.com via Rich Roddman)
- Convert 3D LUTs for free in OS X - convert between the CUBE and 3DL file formats to share LUTs. This blog post will show you how using a free Python script using Terminal commands. (jasonmyres.com via Marc Wielage)
- Updated: DaVinci Resolve 11.1 - click through for the full details of new features. And some instant reactions. (liftgammagain.com)
- [Forum] Oxygentec: New DaVinci
Panel - a new set of panels is being supported in DaVinci Resolve 11. Looks like it's targeted at the Chinese market. The link is to a forum discussion about these minimalist panels. (liftgammagain.com via Marc Wielage)
- [Forum] Resolve 11.1: Updated Tangent Element Mapping - Long-time Resolve colorists know that the one area completely neglected the last few years of Resolve development: Improvements using Colorist Control Surfaces. Colorist Paul Provost sums up my feeling nicely with their latest update that includes updated mapping, "If you starve someone and
then give them a bowl of soup, cold, straight out of the can, they are immensely grateful..." At every level, control surface users of Resolve have been starving for attention for years. This mapping update? Cold soup. (liftgammagain.com)
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The Business |
- Analyzing the Movies - spend some time ruminating on this blog post. There's some interesting analysis of how movie-making has changed over the past century. Especially note the average shot-length... which is why I think color grading has become more essential, as we help our viewers know where to look - instantly. (wired.com)
- Restoring The Beatle's 'A Hard's Day Night' In 4K - good article. (studiodaily.com)
- IBC: Filmlight launches Daylight - "AJA SDI output; shot filtering and sorting; HTML report generation; RED GPU decoding; media consolidation tools; multi-format deliverables; and, just like Baselight, support for the latest camera codecs." (filmlight.ltd.uk)
- [forum] IBC: DaVinci Resolve 11.1 - click through for full details on the new features. My favorite, trimming Quicktime and MXF clips (previously only available for RED clips). (liftgammagain.com)
- [forum] IBC: BlackMagic Acquires Eyeon Software - developers of the node-based compositing system, it'll be interesting to see if Blackmagic integrates the compositing tools, turning Resolve into a complete suite featuring editorial, color grading and compositing. (liftgammagain.com)
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Friends & Family |
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available. - [audio]
Mailbag: No Client Direction & That National Spot Look - Dan, Robbie and I answer two member questions about working with clients and getting a high-gloss look. (mixinglight.com)
- [audio] Mailbag: Resolve 11 New Features - the team answers member questions about using Resolve 11's new Broadcast Safe feature. Plus... using LUTs when also working with the new Groups features. (mixinglight.com)
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Outside 'The Box' |
- Under the hood - filmmaker Vashi Nedomansky blogs about his experience with Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014.1 (8.1 Update). Vashi got a sneak peak, and takes you through what you can expect when it hits wide release. (vashivisuals.com)
- A Watch Guy's Thoughts On The Apple Watch - a cool post that evaluates the Apple Watch, as a watch. Written by someone who was at the announcement and spent his career with watches. (hodinkee.com)
- Always-On Optical Kerning In After Effects - depending on how you work, After Effects' new
auto kerning preference doesn't always stick... forcing you to keep re-enabling it. Here's how to end that chore. (provideocoalition.com via David E. Bell)
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Current Colorist Control Surface Drivers |
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Sunday Morning Fun(nies) |
- [video] ROYGBIV - check out this one minute video examining (and celebrating)
Pixar's use of color. In case you're wondering, ROYGBIV is an acronym for colors of the rainbow (arranged in order of
decreasing wavelength). (vimeo.com)
- Color Blindness - check out the 11 incredibly annoying (and humorous) struggles that people who are color blind can relate to. (buzzfeed.com)
- [video] Breaking Pawn - actors Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul go into business together and this time it's legal...barely. (vimeo.com)
- [video] The IKEA Book Book - a great parody of technology commercials. (youtube.com)
- Human Hamster Wheel Desks - a combination of the standing desk and the walking desk. (lostateminor.com)
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Gear Heads |
- FSI and Lattice - Lattice is a LUT generation and conversion tool. It can now export in FSI.dat format. This allows you to quickly and easily convert many popular LUT formats to FSI.dat for use in the DIT LUT position on all CFE2 equipped
Flanders Scientific monitors. More on Lattice: youtu.be Purchasing options: (Mac App Store | ShopFSI)
- Sony Launches VPL-VW300ES 4K Projector - for €7000 Euros (hdtvtest.co.uk)
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New Kids on the Block |
- Show 'em The Curve - television maker, LG introduces a 21:9 curved television display, complete with Thunderbolt 2 technology. (9to5mac.com)
- HP: 3x the cores, Down to the core - HP announces - drum roll, please - 36 core desktop workstations. The new Z-series machines directly target Apple's MacPros. The new Z's starting price: $1,299 US (studiodaily.com)
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Showcase |
- [video] Practice! - check out this short
video based on a professional basketball player's rant about practice. Shot on 35mm film. (vimeo.com)
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The Next Step Is a Doozy |
- [video] Man + GoPro + Volcano - a man rappels into a volcano with a GoPro. Daredevil Geoff Mackley's next step definitely qualifies as a doozy. Check out the shot @ 2:03 to see why. (vimeo.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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