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Trouble reading this newsletter? Read it online: http://www.aweber.com/t/5YWkn The Tao Colorist Curated links of news, reviews, thoughts, career advice, and humor for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sunday. Issue CCXXV A TaoOfColor.com Publication Publisher: Pat Inhofer
Managing Editor: Jim Wicks
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- Every Artist Has A Color ‘Theory’ - a quick exploration of how great painters had their own way of painting light with color. (artistdaily.com)
- Creating Light By Alternating Warm and Cool Color - An examination of how Monet used complementary colors. It turns out the Teal / Orange palette ain't nothin' new. (artistdaily.com)
- [video] Anatomy of A Scene: ‘Big Eyes’ - director Tim Burton narrates a
scene from his new movie, Big Eyes, and discusses what he calls the film’s lurid color schemes. (nytimes.com via @tparish)
- Color Thesaurus - red, green, blue are three words that a working Colorist lives by. One writer needed more than three words, so she created a thesaurus to help you correctly name any color imaginable. (boredpanda.com via @SteveHullfish)
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- [review] New Colorist Control Surface: Oxygen Tec ProPanel - Warren Eagles snagged one of these new $800 control surfaces,
from a Chinese company, and put it to use on a client session. This is his video review. (icolorist.com)
- [video] Why Is Camera Matching With Color Charts So Hard? Using Resolve’s ‘Color Match’ Part 1 - 'Automatic Color Match' in
DaVinci Resolve version 11 is a highly marketed feature. This tool can be tricky and difficult to get working as intended. Why is that? Patrick identifies the main problem. Free for non-members until the end of this week. (mixinglight.com)
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What Is The ‘Brightness First’ Color Match Rule? Using Resolve’s ‘Color Match’ Part 2 - Patrick takes his conclusion from Part 1 and tests his theory implementing the ‘Brightness First’ rule. Does it get better results? Find out in this, the final Insight in the 25 Insights in 25 Days 2014 Holiday Marathon. Free for non-members until the end of this week. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] How to read a Waveform Monitor - a basic 101 lesson on using a waveform monitor to interpret the luma values in your video footage. (youtube.com)
- Building a Resolve System (on a Shoestring Budget) - don’t have a lot of money to spread around? You can still build a decent Resolve system that will get the job done. Follow one man’s journey as he shows you how he did it. (redsharknews.com)
- A Whole LUT Of Fun - need some LUT basics? Dive into this blog post to learn how LUTs work
and how to use them in NLEs and color apps. (cineticstudios.com via @cdel89)
- [review] GenArts Sapphire 8 - includes an overview of their new pricing scheme, which can be a bit confusing. (provideocoalition.com)
- FCPX Hard Links Can Save Your Hard Drives - "Aliases, symbolic links, and hard links are often confusing terms for representing data on hard drives. Managing FCPX hard links can go a long way toward helping your workflow and maximizing your storage space. " (fcpworks.com)
- [video] Tracking Masks: Comparing Adobe’s Mask Tracker and Mocha AE CC - "In this feature comparison
video [learn the] similarities and differences between the Mask Tracker effect and the bundled free mocha AE CC. Understanding when to turn to either tool will help users create visual effects with accuracy and time savings." (imagineersystems.com)
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- Dot the T’s (as in TV’s) - At CES, manufacturers showed why the quantum dot is the hottest TV tech going. Click through to
learn more about Qdot technology. (venturebeat.com via Mitch Jacobson)
- Quantum Dot Televisions Are Coming - "quantum dots ... will produce that exact same shade of red tomorrow and 20 years from tomorrow because it's not tinting a white source light". A more technical explanation
than the previous item. (sciencealert.com)
- [video] The World’s Most Boring (and Addictive) Television - "Norwegian television producer
Thomas Hellum shares how he and his team began to broadcast long, boring events, often live — and found a rapt audience." (ted.com)
- Marriott Plans To Block Personal WiFi Hotspots - it's for your own good... I'm sure. And you now know who I won't be choosing for my hotel needs. (loopinsight.com)
- Hollywood Looks Forward to a Better 2015 - "Hollywood does not want a sequel to 2014 . . . Hollywood’s primary worry is that moviegoing in North America is changing along generational lines." Interesting numbers and analysis of box office receipts and
movie-going habits. (nytimes.com)
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The stories featured in this section are from MixingLight.com, a companion color correction membership website to TaoOfColor.com. Want to read a story listed here but not a member? Sign up for a free 24-hour Test Drive. - [video] Advanced Beauty Grading: The Fashion Look - Dan focuses on secondary controls in DaVinci Resolve to create a beauty lightning effect, increase depth, and reshape the face a little bit. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Desert Island Challenge: Setting Proper Saturation in FCPx - Explore the FCP X color pipeline to more deeply establish our 'Primary Corrections Game Plan' - specifically designed for FCP X’s image processing pipeline. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Dynamic Project Switching In DaVinci
Resolve - a little mentioned feature to make switching between Resolve projects MUCH faster. (mixinglight.com)
- [podcast] Fixing Blotchy Skin Tone + Creating A Film Stock Emulation - Team MixingLight explores: How to fix skin tone problems with different secondary approaches? The second question starts a discussion on what to expect (or not) from film stock emulation. (mixinglight.com)
- Colorist Inspiration: The Best UK Commercials of 2014 - As we enter a new year, pause for a moment to get some top level color grading inspiration from the best work of other colorists. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Getting Better Grades In Premiere Pro - if
you've had trouble using Premiere's 3-Way Color Corrector, did you know the problem is how it is set by default? This Insight reveals what you need to adjust to make the 3-Way Color Corrector easier to work with. (mixinglight.com)
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- [contest] New Year, New Tools - if you've used Boris or Mocha
tools on any project in 2014, this could be a fun thing to do. (imagineersystems.com)
- [video] 11 Must-See Videos from CES 2015 - Fun stuff, including a washing machine that lets you do two loads of
wash... simultaneously. Wha? Click through to find out. (cnet.com)
- Everything You Missed from CES 2015 - a linkroll of top stories from Video to Wearables to 3D printers. (gigaom.com)
- [video] Giant Frozen Gummy Bear Gets Blasted - "The lack of dialog makes it feel like you're watching a Candyland snuff film, but no living gummy bears were harmed in the making of the
video so don't feel bad about watching, and enjoying, the science of destruction." (neatorama.com)
- [video] Vizio Promotes 2015
Flat 4K TV With Anti-Curved Glasses Ad - humorous commercial that makes fun of curved TVs. (hdtvtest.co.uk)
- 21 Obscure References In Classic Songs: Explained - more interesting than fun. (mentalfloss.com)
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- The Best 4K & UHD Monitors For Mac - "Despite my tests
being done mostly on a new, stock Mac Pro, these picks stand for Thunderbolt-equipped MacBook users as well." (9to5mac.com)
- [review] 4K Atomos Shogun - what it can do and how to use it? (redsharknews.com)
- Overheating MacBook Fixed - by drilling holes. The next question - is it
still covered by Apple Care? (9to5mac.com)
- [review] ThunderBay 4 Mini RAID - populated with 4TB of SSDs and some impressive Read / Write numbers. (barefeats.com)
- [review] OWC Aura SSD 2TB Upgrade For New Mac Pro - want more internal storage on your 'trash can Mac'? There's a new solution for you. But how does it stack up to the factory installed options? (barefeats.com)
- Apple’s New Mac Pro Continues To Cause Problems For Professional Users - "issues — which center primarily around OpenCL-driven color corrector DaVinci Resolve — first began to appear in May of this year . . problems have continued, however, even after the release of OS X Yosemite." (iphone.appleinsider.com)
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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. 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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