• Thank you all for allowing Jim and me our indulgence last week, celebrating the first time we were physically in the same space on 'Newsletter Saturday'.
  

• What seems somewhat true, is that many of you didn't realize we did ship a full edition of the Sunday Newsletter last week...
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• ... you just had to click in the link in the Description of the video.​
  
  
• If you missed last week's newsletter you can read it here, in the Archives.
  
  
• This week we're all business - let's get straight to it!
  
  
• See you next Sunday.

Happy Grading!

• [videos] How To Be a DIT - hard to believe that we’re up to part 11 in this on-going series, but quick as wink and Bob’s your uncle. UK-based editor Jonny Elwyn has done a yeoman’s job of compiling an encyclopedia of resources for this part of the story. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
  

• James Willett - the UK-based Colorist talks about the craft of what we do, and how his career grew from one of London’s first all-Mac post houses to a freelance Colorist. (splicecommunity.com)
  

• HPA Announces 2014 Award Winners - One of the USA's few awards that hands out color grading honors, including Features, Television and Commercials. (studiodaily.com via Marc Wielage)
  

• [podcasts] Color Decoded: Stories That Span The Spectrum - a cool National Public Radio playlist of stories that focus on color... from how the standard skin test swatch was developed to the meaning of simultaneous color contrast 'illusions'. (npr.org via @tparish)
  

• [Forum] Why Is Grading H.264 So Bad? - The question is a good one. The answer seems obvious... until you start having to write it out. An interesting thread. (liftgammagain.com)
  

• Dufaycolor: The Early Quest For Color - The story of an early photographic process that might have rivaled Technicolor—if not for World War II. (redsharknews.com)
  

• [tutorial] Popular Fashion Looks In Resolve - If you're un-confident about skin tones... there's great advice in here on how to communicate with your client to 'dial it in'. Plus nice tips on adjust skin tones. I like this tutorial. (premiumbeat.com)

• [video] Davinci Remote Grading - one of the nice features of Resolve is being able to do remote grading. What is it, how do you do it, what are the gotchas? All good questions. See it in action, simultaneously recorded in two locations. (tomparish.com)
  

• Fusion gets ‘Resolved’ - Blackmagic Design’s Grant Petty talks about purchasing Eyeon, and releasing Fusion 7 like they do DaVinci Resolve - both as a free version and as a paid version, following the DaVinci Resolve pricing scheme. (postperspective.com)
  

• [review] Two 3D LUT Sets - two LUT packages from Canadian-based Look Labs are reviewed by Planet5D. Click through to read more about Adobe CC Complete, and SpeedLooks for Editors. (planet5d.com)
  

• ZoneSCOPE Meter - a new tool to analyze color in a number of applications. In beta, with free download for Windows only platforms. (m2port.com)
  

• [video] 3D LUT Creator: Double Grid - if you need to create LUTs, this may be of interest to you. (youtube.com via @tparish)
  

• Grainzilla: The Two Weeks Too Early Black Friday Sale - 50% off all their products. This weekend through Tuesday. If you're looking for elements to overlay your footage using composite modes - it's good day for you. (grainzilla.com)
  

• [video] Media Composer 101: Advanced Roundtripping To After Effects - "I'll talk about how to set up your Render Queue in After Effects to send your footage back exported properly, so it imports quickly into Media Composer, and looks exactly as it should." (provideocoalition.com)
  

• [video] Want To See 4K Editing In Media Composer Before Its Release? - This video will show you: "we take some footage, AMA link to it to get it into Media Composer, and then tackle the pesky problem of 4K playback by utilizing Proxy Timelines to playback a 4K timeline at 2K." (provideocoalition.com)

• Sexism in Post - the word ‘creative’ is gender neutral, as it applies equally to men and women. You’d think sexism in post should not be an issue, but according to Kylee Wall it is. Check out her report, it might open your eyes. (library.creativecow.net)
  

• Apple: ‘Masque Attack’ Nothing to Worry About - if you buy from the App Store. (imore.com)
  

• Paul Schrader: The Future Of Entertainment - The screenwriter of Raging Bull and Taxi Driver talks about the demise of the multiplex and the 3 act story structure. Great read. (premiumbeat.com)
  

• Interstellar’s Sonic Soup:How Auteurs Diss Their Audiences - a film critic bitch slaps today's auteurs for valuing aural realism over viewer comprehension. (washingtonpost.com)

• SMPTE Time Code - you use it. You count on it. But do you know what SMPTE is? In a changing digital world, SMPTE time code has remained nearly unchanged after almost 50 years. How is that possible? (provideocoalition.com)
  

• Don’t Fight the Magnetic Timeline - Editor Charlie Austin writes about his experience with ‘Crazytown’ (our favorite description of FCP X’s timeline). This isn’t a tutorial so much as a rambling journey based on Charlie’s experience with Apple’s NLE. (library.creativecow.net)
  

• [video] The Histogram 1 - cinematographer Ryan E. Waters says the histogram may be a popular in-camera exposure tool but you should stop using it. There are 3 reasons. (vimeo.com)
  

• [video] The Histogram 2 - After you watch the video (above) click through to see how Ryan says you can get reliable results using the in-camera histogram.  (vimeo.com)

• [video] GoPro In a Bubble - NASA astronauts put a GoPro in a floating ball of water. The scientific explanation involved “the phenomenon of water surface tension in microgravity on the International Space Station.” Yeah, sure. They could have done that with chewed up bubble gum. This? Way more fun. (youtube.com)
  

• [video] #OnSet - Being A Cinematographer Parody - Heh. Nice beard. (vimeo.com)
  

• ‘Star Wars’ Concept Art Up For Auction - Cool. (telegraph.co.uk)
  

• 11 Beloved Movies That Were Box Office Flops - their initial release failed to make back their budgets. (mentalfloss.com)
  

• A Star Wars Fight of a Different Kind - what do you get when you film ten hours of Princess Leia walking in NYC? Catcalls and pickup lines seem to rarely work in any galaxy. (youtube.com)

• ‘Interstellar’: How To Decide Which Format to Watch - since it's screening in 6 different formats. (filmmakeriq.com)
  

• 13 Ways To Keep Your House Warmer This Winter Polar Vortex - For those of you in North America. (artofmanliness.com)
  

• [review] Samsung UE48H6400 LED TV - "This 48-inch display doesn’t carry the most cutting-edge of styling, but its picture quality puts most similarly-priced rivals to shame." (hdtvtest.co.uk)
  

• 4K On The Cheap: Ultra HD TV Is Almost Ready - pull your couch 5-feet from the tv, and find out if these budget 4Ks are worth purchasing yet? (online.wsj.com)
  

• [review] Panasonic TX-55AX902B 4K TV - "Panasonic set out to build an LED LCD TV that performs like plasma, and in many ways the company has succeeded with its flagship AX902B series." Still no availability in the US. (hdtvtest.co.uk | prnewswire.com | avsforum.com)

• MacPro Upgrade: GeForce GTX 980 GPU vs. Others - Low power consumption makes it attractive as a GPU upgrade option. How does it perform? (barefeats.com)
  

• LG Shows Digital Cinema 4K Monitor - an overview of their new 31 inch IPS 4K monitor. (provideocoalition.com)
  

• Mac Pro Rackmount Kit - Yet another way to rackmount your MacPro Tube. (magma.com)
  

• Shootout: Best iMac GPUs vs. Similar Mac Pro Tower GPUs - In case you're trying to decide between an iMac or Tube... (barefeats.com)
  

• [announcement] Sonnet Thunderbolt Pro P2 Memory Card Reader - for high speed ingest. (provideocoalition.com)

• [video] Siri On A Stick - just one look at this promotional video will have you thinking, they put Siri in a tube. Except it’s not Apple, it’s Amazon. And it’s not Siri, it’s called, Echo. $199US, Prime members $99. (redsharknews.com)​
  

• Free Cloud Storage - get 56GB of free storage by combining Dropbox, Box, Google Drive into one massive storage folder. ODrive, a free app that syncs files from different places, creates a folder that you access from your desktop.  (blog.odrive.com)

• The act of being creative - for some artists, being creative can leave you full of doubt and dismay. It helps to have the insights of those that came before to help us muster through. Read on to learn 7 pieces of creative wisdom that may change the way you work. (99u.com via @SteveHullfish)
  

• How To Build A Career In The Film Industry - As explained by three world-class DPs. (nofilmschool.com)
  

• When Do Artist Make Good Entrepreneurs? - lessons from Joan Jett. Some interesting Insights in here. (forbes.com)
  

• How To Automate Your Creative Business - Really interesting services listed in this post.  (provideocoalition.com)

Some lunch breaks are more ...eventful than others: imgur.com

• DOJ Spoofs Cell Towers in Mobile Phone Dragnet - "Newer versions of the device can go even further by jamming cell signals or pulling texts, photos, and other data from the phone." (9to5mac.com)