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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 CCXVI A TaoOfColor.com Publication Publisher: Pat Inhofer
Managing Editor: Jim Wicks
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- Finally - our MixingLight.com Resolve 11 training ships this week!
- But it's taking a huge push to get everything lined up.
- So nothing else to say other than...
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- Looking Back on Pleasantville - the 1998 motion picture was an early pioneer of today's Digital Intermediate process. The film has an iconic look that cost people their jobs. What? Click through for the full story courtesy the film’s DP. (theasc.com)
- The Most Important Colour Lesson - It takes a while for this article to get to its point. When it arrives, it's a great
writeup about why filmmakers need to pay attention to their artificial light sources. It turns out, white light isn't always white—which can have consequences. (redsharknews.com)
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- [video] Color Grading Breakdown - How much work goes into grading a single shot for a cosmetic commercial? Senior Colorist Andreas Burecki emailed us with a breakdown from the latest
commercial he graded in Baselight for L’Oréal. (vimeo.com)
- FCPx: Color Grading Strategies for Editors - Oliver Peters offers a workflow when grading in FCPx. Includes a free set of presets that he created for FCPx. (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- LOG, RAW, and Adobe Video Tools - Colorist Robbie Carman talks LOG and RAW workflows using the Adobe CC pipeline. The full transcript includes a link to the video presentation. (provideocoalition.com)
- Please Don't Overdo Digital Touchup - "you want performers to look as they normally would on their best, most well-rested and relaxed day . . . If the requirement is for an idealized grade, you don’t want them to look like a blurry-skinned sparkle-zombie." Includes tips for executing on that advice. (vanhurkman.com)
- [review] Mixing Light: Inside a Color Correction Subscription
Website - "the training doesn’t focus simply on how to use the software . . . it also provides a wealth of insider tips and tricks on grading and developing your skills as a colorist." (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- What’s New In Media Composer v8.2: Lesson 2
- A follow up from an article in a previous newsletter. (provideocoalition.com)
- [pdf] Media Composer v8.2: The Cheat Sheet - A direct link to a quick rundown of all the new features. (resources.avid.com)
- [video] Firmware Update For Flanders Scientific CFE2 Equipped Monitors - I know, they're an advertiser - but the latest firmware update to their newest lines of
monitors now has audio loundness monitoring with a 10 second and overall average. Really useful for you finishers out there. (flandersscientific.com)
- [video] Visual Effects Workflow With Final Cut Pro X - an episode of MacBreak Studio on how to handle a VFX pipeline using FCPx and few handy 3rd party apps. (provideocoalition.com)
- Autodesk Switches To Subscription Model - "the old ‘perpetual licence’ model of selling standalone applications [is] set to disappear within the next
two years." (redsharknews.com)
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- [Infographic] All You Need To Know about 4K/UHD - Like the title says. (redsharknews.com)
- Netflix On Disrupting Traditional Film Distribution - CCO Ted Sarandos talks about Netflix and its relationship to the traditional film distribution
channel. Good stuff. (mentorless.com)
- BBC Spends £220,00 On iPhone Training - “We are harnessing new technologies to train our journalists to use their phones to film, edit and transmit news stories on mobile phones.” I wonder:
Can I now expense an iPhone as a professional video camera? (broadcastnow.co.uk)
- AT&T Gigabit Fiber Mostly a No-Show - it looks like AT&T likes to promise high-bandwidth internet services. Delivering on that promise? Not so much. (stopthecap.com)
- Comcast Lost 81,000 Video Customers
In Q3... - "[Our] best results in 7 years". They'll make it up on volume, I'm sure. (arstechnica.com)
- Mox-y - there’s a campaign underway to create a cross platform open source movie format for video and film production. In two days they raised nearly half of the intended $20k(US) goal. If
it happens, you can say you read about first in the Tao newsletter. (indiegogo.com)
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- Kicking The Tires On The Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014.1 - After working with it on a job, an editor highlights the major changes. (provideocoalition.com)
- Editing Gone Girl - a popular movie spawns a number of bts stories. When David Fincher announced that
his film would be edited in Adobe Premiere Pro, some dismissed it as a stunt. The details in this blog post would say it was anything but. (library.creativecow.net)
- [videos] Earn Your VhD - get schooled in the art of all things
video with the growing curriculum at The Vimeo Video School. Learn how to master mobile video, editing, and more. One subject that’s MIA: color grading. Free to Vimeo Plus and PRO members. (vimeo.com)
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- FSI Open House - "Join us on Tuesday, October 28th for an Open House event at Flanders Scientific in Alpharetta, GA. We'll be showcasing the bulk of our professional broadcast monitor lineup . . . as well as our entire line of supporting products from our new division FSI Solutions." They are also featuring Switronix's line of Hypercore batteries. Registration required. (flandersscientific.com)
- Atlanta Cutters: Make it 2-fer - Come out to Atlanta on Tuesday for the FSI Event. Stay for Wed. night's Atlanta Cutter's event inside the production studios of Coca-Cola. October 29. Pre-registration required. (atlantacutters.com)
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- [video] Afterglow - Philips, the electronics giant, creates a
stunning video of Color and Snow to promote its new backlit TV. If you don’t have time for the 12 minute version, there’s a 3 minute cut down. Fun. (adweek.com)
- [video] The Hobbit' in LEGO, in 72 Seconds - a much shorter
version of Peter Jackson’s trilogy. Cute. (youtube.com)
- [video] The Hoverboard, part 2 - earlier this year the Tao
Colorist newsletter brought you the story of a real fake hoverboard, like the one in Back to the Future. Now, we are highlighting a real ‘not fake’ hoverboard. The future of a floating reality is out there (assuming we pave the world in metal). (nytimes.com)
- What Can You Do In The UK That You Cannot In The US? - Fun
answers. (quora.com)
- Scientists Discover The Ideal Dance Moves For Men - The Tao Treasurer is telling me these moves aren't working. <sigh> Maybe you'll have better luck. (lifehacker.com)
- Marching Band Halftime Show: The Wizard Of Oz - from Ohio State
University. Seriously, a walking Dorothy, dancing Scarecrow and a flying evil University of Michigan witch - you ain't seen a marching band until you've seen this. (youtube.com)
- [Video] Teardown of the 5K iMac - hey, kids! Wanna go inside Apple’s new iMac? Of course you do. Buckle up, click through, and hold on. Warning: trained professionals. Closed workbench. Do
Not Attempt (but it you do, post it on YouTube!). Fun or horrific? You decide. (ifixit.com)
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- [Review] OWC 4-bay 12TB Thunderbolt RAID - the ThunderBay IV 4-bay 12TB hard drive system comes in many configurations. Check out the comparison of all, including performance vs redundancy, and the benefits of each one. (provideocoalition.com)
- LG 55EC9300 OLED TV Review - "how happy you are with the LG EC9300 depends on for how long you can remain wowed by the contrast performance, because thorough scrutiny reveals a number of issues lurking under the surface." One big issue? They couldn't get it
within the Rec 709 spec at a 2.4 gamma. An interesting review worth the read. (hdtvtest.co.uk)
- Panasonic TX-40AX630B 4K TV Review - An entry level UHD - but lacking Netflix 4k support, probably not for the living room. (hdtvtest.co.uk)
- [Review] Átomos Spyder Monitor Calibration System - "With it, we can quickly and easily calibrate any calibratable Átomos monitor/recorder . . . to Rec 709 color space with a D65 white point. This is a special offering of Datacolor’s Spyder, with special software and a LANC cable. Details ahead." (provideocoalition.com)
- Shootout: iMac Retina 5K versus
Other Quad-Core Macs - Like the title says, with some FCPx benchmarks. (barefeats.com)
- Prelim Performance Analysis: New iMac With Retina 5K
Display - This newly announced iMac has its features evaluated in this article. (barefeats.com)
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- I Need You, But I Can’t Pay You - accepting work without pay is one thing but it’s quite another to be the one asking for help. Here are four things to remember when it’s your turn to ask someone else to work for free. (provideocoalition.com)
- [video] The Truth Hurts - a car shopping site (Edmunds) deleted a video it uploaded that poked fun at the absurdity of haggling for groceries. Their point was: you wouldn't haggle for food, why do it for a car? Auto dealers threatened to pull their ads
…so the commercial came down. And now we know who Edmund's real customers are. Here's the full story. (adage.com)
- Steven
Soderbergh On The Three Major Turning Points In His Career - cribbed from an interview he gave to the Directors Guild of America. (mentorless.com)
- MIke Monteiro On ‘You’re My Favorite Client’ - "unlike the many other design- and development-centric [books], this
book’s primary audience isn’t designers, but clients." (subtraction.com)
- 5 Ways To Work From Home More Effectively - yes. Yes. Yes. Yes and Yes. Pithy article with good advice. (blogs.hbr.org)
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- [video] Zerogon - spend a few minutes watching the colorful short film by filmmakers Joshua Planz & John Mattiuzzi. John emailed us to say, “we shot this on the Red Epic at 5K. I did most of the compositing and initial color correction in After Effects. And for the Post-conform, after the VFX shots were done, I brought everything into Resolve, and spiced things up a bit, as well as matching the shots. But it was minimal work in Resolve. Since every shot was so heavy in VFX, we
spent a lot of time in After Effects keeping the colors consistent for each shot." (vimeo.com)
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- [video] Ultimate party trick? - want to make a splashy entrance to a pool party atop a 34 story building? Start with a 1200 foot base
jump right into the action. Oh, and did we mention that it was at night? Extra points if you don’t miss. (youtube.com)
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- A Tale of Two Pizzas - a U.S. Federal Judge denies trademark protection over the flavor of pizza. Two New York pizzerias were duking it out in court. We love that the judge used colors for his ruling in the case. Pizza and colors. Only in New York. Who’d have thunk. (hollywoodreporter.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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