• IT IS HERE!

• My Resolve 11 training is now available.

• It feels like it's taken months to get this thing to market.

• Oh. Wait. It HAS taken months.

• At 14 hours across 135 movies - I guess it's not surprising that it took a bit of effort to produce and deliver.

• During this initial Launch, we're offering the training at a discount which ends on Tuesday.

• I extended the Launch discount window when I realized on Thursday I never sent an email to you, Newsletter readers, announcing the Launch.

• Thursday night was also when I realized that Thursday night was actually Friday night.

• Yes, Launch Week is always that kind of week.

• Even if you're not interested in buying the training - we've posted almost 45 minutes of free previews across 7 different training movies. These are full-length lessons, without anything cut out.

• Check it out - even if it's just for the free stuff!

[change of subject]

• This week we're a little lite on Newsletter content.

• Not for lack of trying. It just wasn't there.

• And that's how the internet is some weeks.

• I guess, maybe a good week to start a new training series?

• See you next week when Jim and I will be writing the newsletter from the same physical space - as he visits me at my new digs in Orlando, Florida. 

• [video] Is Color Grading Killing You? - the term ‘fix it in post’ takes on a whole new meaning when it’s YOU that you should be fixing in post. Take some time to watch Editor Zack Arnold walk you through some tips on how to stay healthy while working on your craft. (youtube.com)

• Mastering A Craft - How to accelerate your growth at... anything. (provideocoalition.com)

• Warren Eagles: 5 Tips for Colorists - "When I create a look and present it to the director I need to be able to back that up with confidence". Lots of other good advice. (redsharknews.com)

• Why Our Brains Like Stories - "If the story is able to create that tension then it is likely that attentive viewers/listeners will come to share the emotions of the characters in it, and after it ends, likely to continue mimicking the feelings and behaviors of those characters." Interesting stuff. (blogs.hbr.org)

• The Resolve Standard Candle Benchmark - a standard candle is a known source of luminosity. Colorist Sascha Haber created a Resolve document that you import to see how much GPU performance your system has. Project File Download and Instructions are available. (carousel.hu)
  

• GoPro Cineform Codec In Creative Cloud - "It's also difficult to determine just what quality or bit depth was rendered from After Effects or Premiere. Though Premiere has more information on file properties, there's no tag for bit depth, and files rendered from AE or Premiere at Quality 4 are read as Quality 5 in Premiere Pro." The whole article reads that way. Almost humorous. (provideocoalition.com)
  

• ProRes444 XQ In Creative Cloud - It isn't. In Creative Cloud, that is. This blog post links to solutions for making XQ work in Creative Cloud. (provideocoalition.com)
  

• [pdf] ProRes White Paper: June 2014 - One of Warren Eagles' suggestions in today's newsletter is know your codecs. The previous article on XQ linked to this year's ProRes White Paper. Now's a good time to put that advice into practice. (images.apple.com)

• New York City's Last Film Lab Is Closing - "We are sad to say that the demand for that service is no longer sufficient to sustain the lab and still maintain a world-class standard for quality." Click through to read which are the last feature films to be run through that lab. (studiodaily.com)​
  

• MOX and Open Source Video - "Once MOX has been created, it belongs to no one, and it doesn’t rely on Brendan to update it, or on any particular company to remain in existence. it is designed to be accessed and updated by anyone, a model used extensively from Github to Wikipedia to OpenEXR." An interview with the creator. (provideocoalition.com)

• [video] Advanced Windows: Difficult Shape Masking - "I’m sharing my technique to masking difficult shapes which I learned from my days working on Flame as a compositor. It’s not a groundbreaking new technique but something colorists may not have realised before." (mixinglight.com)
  

• [video] Look Library: Halloween Slasher - "I just graded a commercial this week for a Halloween Slasher spot where the directors brief was super simple. Make it look like a cheesy 80s slasher movie!" It's a Halloween grade breakdown. (mixinglight.com)​​
  

• [video] Resolve 11.1 Update: Consolidate Clips - In the 11.1 update took the 'Trim Clips' command and made it much more useful. In the 11.1.1 update, 'Trim Clips' was renamed 'Consolidate Clips'. This Insight shows how to use it and what options you may want to avoid. (mixinglight.com)

• [video] The Making of Goodfellas - go behind the scenes of one of the greatest mob movies ever made.  (youtube.com)
  

• Behind The Scenes on ‘Gone Girl’ - A 55 minute BTS on the film's Creative Cloud workflow. (youtube.com via Marc Wielage)
  

• 1Password Updated for Fingerprint Unlock - If you aren't using a password manager, then you need to get with the plan. Immediately. And I fully recommend 1Password. It's been updated to allow you to unlock your database with your fingerprint on a iPhone. (Scroll down to 'A Step Too Far?' to see why this might not be so good, after all.) Full details at the link. (9to5mac.com)

• [video] Daylite Saving: The Trailer - The final scene (right after the title card) is killer. (youtu.be via @ShawnKing)
  

• Star Wars Models Up Close and Personal - 140 up-close photos of ship and vehicle models constructed by Industrial Light and Magic for the original Star Wars Trilogy (1977-1983). (imgur.com)
  

• [video] Meet Teddy, The Porcupine Who Talks Like a Human - well, almost like a human. Teddy is speaking a dialect of porcupine. Or Wookie. But people are listening. Teddy’s got over 7,000 Facebook fans and this video has over 4 million views. (youtube.com)
  

• Whirling WiFi: Colorful Images Wireless Networks - Cool visual images of the invisible WiFi around us. (dailymail.co.uk)
  

• The 11 Scariest Films of All-Time - As curated by Martin Scorcese. None of them have been made in the past 35 years. (nofilmschool.com)

• [podcast] Early Look at the Sony 4k OLED 30" Reference Monitor - Features include High Dynamic Range with 1000 nits peak luminance. Expected shipping date: Feb. 2015. (avical.com)
  

• Wringing the Life Out of an Old Mac Pro Tower - "If you have a working, reliable, paid for Mac Pro a few hundred dollars here and there might get you another year out of the thing, depending on what you're asking it to do. . . here's how I keep my old Mac Pro tower rolling along." (provideocoalition.com)
  

• Class-Action Suit: 2011 Apple MacBook Pros - I can confirm I'm seeing the same problems specified in this article. (arstechnica.com)
  

• [review] Desktop RAID Review: G-Technology G-Speed Studio R - A desktop RAID. (redsharknews.com)
  

• Why Is The New iMac 5K Instead of 4K? - Speculation about—Why? (arstechnica.com)
  

• iMac Retina 5K i5 vs. iMac Retina 5K i7 - with the upgraded R9 M295X GPU in the high-end iMac. In case you're in the market for one. (barefeats.com)

• 7 tips on working with tough clients - you know who the difficult ones are. They’re the ones whose e-mails make your stomach sink and ruin a day before it begins when there’s a meeting scheduled. Our favorite: Number 6 - if you’ve got the nerve.  (agencypost.com)
  

• Co-workers Should Be Like Neighbors Not Friends - "with our neighbors, we try to balance what we do for them and what we get from them over time." I like this construct. (blogs.hbr.org)