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and humor for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sunday. Issue CCXXIX A TaoOfColor.com Publication Publisher: Pat Inhofer
Managing Editor: Jim Wicks
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At the Retreat I keep thinking about the quote:
"You are the same person in 5 years as you are today, except for the people you meet and the books you read"
If you're not happy with where your career and life are today...
Then you need to find ways to meet new people and get exposed to new ideas.
That's what events like this are all about.
I've been collecting a list of apps and books that I'm finding interesting. I'll share those links next week.
Right now? I gotta run and get this newsletter published because Poker Night at the Retreat starts in 2 hours!
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- Hollywood’s Two Favorite Colors - another look at orange and teal. Some good info in here on complementary colors. (priceonomics.com via @PoseEric)
- [video] How To Be A
DIT – film editor Jonny Elwyn’s newly re-designed site is packed with loads of info for the working Colorist. Part 12 (!) in this DIT primer: the image from the sensor to the screen. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- A Conversation with DP Michael Minock - the 40-year Cinematographer veteran on working with Colorists, DITs, greenscreen and advice to newcomers. (postperspective.com)
- [podcast] What Can A Colorist Learn From A Costume Designer - and "how that collaboration can impact the creative strength of a production?" (tomparish.com)
- Why Do Japanese Have Blue Eyes and Blond Hair In Anime? - "anime follows a complex visual language, where seemingly innocuous elements carry deeper meaning. And hair color is among the first and foremost." A cool answer to an interesting question that details the color palette of anime. (quora.com)
- How they did it:
behind two of the biggest Super Bowl spots - personally, the Tao Treasurer and I thought the Fiat commercial was the funniest spot of Super Bowl XLIX. The two featured here were fun and well executed. Good article. (fxguide.com)
- History of Cinematic Frame Rate - from early film projection to digital cameras. (laughingsquid.com)
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- [video] Grading CinemaDNG RAW - in last week’s newsletter we shared some links to a two-part tutorial series on grading Blackmagic’s Pocket Cinema Camera. In part 3, the tutorial focuses on secondaries and the overall look. (youtube.com)
- [Update] DaVinci Resolve 11.2 - includes new CinemaDNG colorspace algorithms, improved Avid Media Composer 8.3 round-tripping, new DNxHR 4K support, DPX 2.0 enhancements and more. (blackmagicdesign.com)
- 12 Wishes for
DaVinci Resolve 12 - if you're fan of list posts. And DaVinci Resolve. (niwa.nu)
- Red Giant Updates Their Color Correction Plugins - “We stepped back and looked at every feature introduced over the years and asked, ‘How can this be better?’ Every tool has been optimized for the GPU, providing real time rendering and so much more.” Click through for details. (fcp.co)
- Reviews and Approvals Made Easy - check out this review of a review. Wipster.IO allows your clients to make comments that relate to an exact timecode, and mark up the frame. Pretty cool. (provideocoalition.com)
- [video] Final Cut Pro X: Creating Custom Frame Sizes - "Break free from 16:9 with custom frame sizes in FCPX." (premiumbeat.com)
- [video] FCPx: How
to Sync Double-System Sound - "there are two ways to sync double-system sound: one is very fast, and the other is very easy." (wolfcrow.com)
- Kollaborate Server 1.3 Update - "Upload files to the cloud, have them reviewed by others and then export their notes back to your editing application. Kollaborate
Server gives you all of those features in-house on your own servers and storage." (digitalrebellion.com)
- [video] Avid: Master The Art of 4K Editing - Learn how to set up your 4K project in Avid. Plus new features introduced since Avid 8.1. (provideocoalition.com)
- [updated] Video Space Calculator for iOS - "added support for the Blackmagic Raw 4K codec, in addition to tweaking some of the other codecs." (digitalrebellion.com)
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- Autodesk Software to go Subscription Only - "Autodesk will end sales of perpetual licenses for its standalone software products effective February 1, 2016." (studiodaily.com)
- How to Justify Your Freelance Rates - ten years
ago Brennan Dunn charged $50 an hour. Now? His projects can net him north of $20,000 a week. How did he do it? (99u.com)
- Film Rides Again - all six major Hollywood studios have banded together to keep the celluloid flowing. (celluloidjunkie.com)
- How Industry Titans are Standardizing 4K - another look at the UHD
Alliance. (premiumbeat.com)
- Adobe, Autodesk and
Corel Is Suing a Retailer - for pirating their software (theverge.com)
- YouTube Tests User Switchable Multicam Playback - "A marketing gimmick or possible usefulness in the future?" (fcp.co)
- 90% of World's Cinema Screens Are Digital - but what percent of them in 2014 were 3D? It's an interesting number. (marketsaw.blogspot.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] Exporting LAB From Photoshop As RGB Look Up Tables - does
It work? (mixinglight.com)
- Dealing With Helicopter Clients - business & creative strategies for handling micro-managing clients (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Resolve: Advanced Node Operations - "I discuss dealing with external mattes, grain, blending modes and a generally messy (and realistic) grade setup" (mixinglight.com)
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- 30 Different Ways To Tie A Tie That Every Man Should Know - assuming you wear ties... I am talking to post-production pros, after all. (shirtsmyway.com)
- [video] Projection
Mapping To Make A Forest Come Alive - very very cool. (premiumbeat.com)
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- How to upgrade your
Home Theater Grading Suite to Dolby Atmos - "If you already have a 5.1 or 7.1 home theater, you’ve probably been wondering what it takes to upgrade to a Dolby Atmos system. Here’s what you need to know." (blog.dolby.com)
- [Video] GTX970 memory problems - if you own one of these Nvidia cards you’ll want to watch this revealing interview with an Nvidia engineer about the GTX970 memory fiasco. (youtube.com). Nvidia, by the way, has zero plans to address the controversy. (destructoid.com)
- Dual GTX 980 in Mac Pro vs. Other
Dual GPUs - in 'multi-gpu aware' apps. (barefeats.com)
- 10G Bandwidth - larger video files need faster and
larger storage. It also means increasing your bandwidth. Tech guru Bob Zellin discusses Sonnet’s Dual-Port 10GBase-T Thunderbolt™ 2 Adapter and what it can mean for you. (provideocoalition.com)
- [video] Extreme 4K Video Capture SD Card Showdown - because clients expect finishers and colorists to know everything about hard drives. Yes, even those cruddy little SD cards. (wolfcrow.com)
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- Apple Pay: Its weakness? - an interesting article about the unlikely 'weak link' for safe credit card transactions. (9to5mac.com)
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- How To Detect An Exoplanet With A DSLR - but will they name the exoplanet after you? (filmmakeriq.com)
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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. Happy Grading! 7,650+ Stories Now Shared
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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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