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Trouble reading this newsletter? Read it online: http://www.aweber.com/t/AyK8r The Tao Colorist Newsletter Curated links of news, reviews, thoughts, career advice, and humor for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sunday. Issue CCXXXII A TaoOfColor.com Publication Publisher: Pat Inhofer
Managing Editor: Jim Wicks
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NAB is just over a month away. At the end of this email are links to color correction training sessions, popular social events and a travel discount.
The Colorist Mixer Registration for the 3rd Annual NAB Colorist Mixer is now officially open! Yesterday we did a private launch to the members of Mixing Light, International Colorists Academy and Tao Of
Color.
In less than 15 hours, almost 25% of our tickets were snapped up!
If you want mingle with all the color
correction lovers you've met on Twitter, Facebook, LiftGammaGain and in forums or on email... you'll find a good many of them here and you're invited! Come on down and meet the people behind the Profile Pages.
Consider this my personal invitation to you:
See you next week.
Happy
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- [webinar] The Color of American Sniper - "meet Maxine Gervais, lead colorist at Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging (MPI), for an exclusive presentation on the creative color finishing process of acclaimed American Sniper."
March 10. (moviola.com)
- [video] The Color in House of Cards - the series
that put Netflix on the Original Series map has a specific color palette. What’s going on? Click through to find out. Also, be sure to click on the embedded link for a podcast interview with Igor Martinovic - the series’ D.P. (slate.com)
- How many colors can you see? - are you one of the 25% of the population with a 4th cone and is a tetrachromat? Use this chart to find out. I always thought this
condition was genetically limited to women. This researcher doesn't think so. Also - the associated graphic has dramatic changes in luminance that seems to me to muddy what it's testing. Still, interesting enough to share. (linkedin.com via @mitch_jacobson)
- How Technicolor Changed Storytelling - it’s hard to believe now, but a century ago there were actually people who worried that color would ruin motion pictures; instead, it changed visual storytelling forever. (theatlantic.com)
- Food Photography 101 - a colorist and newsletter reader sends in this in-depth article about shooting still photos of food. From
composition to ISO and great images to keep for later inspiration. (seriouseats.com via @IndyStudios1991)
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- [video] Workflow Breakdown Part 1: Communicating Visually - using Resolve's re-imagined Groups feature to learn 'how to see through your client's eyes'. A free
tutorial of mine that feels like a mini version of my Colorist Flight School training. (mixinglight.com)
- Grades In A Hurry - master editor Jonny Elwyn
reviews Look Labs 3D LUT files that give you quick creative looks when you’re in a time crunch. Includes a 20% discount off the purchase price. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- Utilizing Remote Grades in DaVinci Resolve - one of the premiere features of Resolve 11 is the ability to do remote grading. This post comes up a little short on the
details, but there is enough information here to get your feet wet. (premiumbeat.com)
- ACES v1.0 - after much trial, testing, and discussion, the long awaited Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) is now finalized. " It provides digital image encoding and other specifications that preserve the latitude and color range of the original imagery, allowing the highest-quality images possible from the cameras and processes used." (oscars.org)
- [video] How Baselight Handles ACES - Baselight
has a two-part video showing the challenges that ACES is designed to solve... and how Baselight solves it. (filmlight.ltd.uk via @colorist.org)
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- Shooting Log: Is the end near? - there was a time when everything was shot to look good right out of the camera. Then we moved to flat looking images. With the quality of the images from the new CION camera, this author wonders:
Is it time to stop shooting flat? (redsharknews.com)
- HD Is Better Than You Think - this is a meandering post that will take you on a trip through 4K, 2K, HD Video, DAT audio, the 1990s, and back to 4K again. The point? Not sure there is one. Interesting read though. (redsharknews.com)
- [PR] Technicolor Goes Mobile - the color company, known for the movies it works on, dials up its first licensing deal to bring color enhanced technology to smartphones. (technicolor.com)
- New CEO of Quantel and Snell - I put this in here after reading the bios of the new and former CEOs. They represent a Who's Who of Broadcast mergers and acquisitions
for the last 15 years. (blog.devoncroft.com)
- ‘HBO Now’ Coming This Spring For $15 Per Month - "The retail price is expected to be $15 a month when purchased directly from HBO, or about what consumers pay when they order HBO through their cable, satellite or telco provider." (ibtimes.com)
- [podcast] The Terence and Philip Show: Look Back On 2014 - they're back in a look back and a look forward. (provideocoalition.com)
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The stories featured in this section are from MixingLight.com, a companion color correction membership website to TaoOfColor.com and this Newsletter. Want to read a story listed here but not a member? Sign up for a free 24-hour Test Drive. - [video] Lightroom LUT Exports Made Easy - with an affordable and surprisingly sophisticated plug-in. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Workflow Breakdown Part 2: Rendering Filtered Timelines - in Resolve when executing the so-called Hero Shots Workflow. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Damage Control - creating a Look with cruddy footage. (mixinglight.com)
- [podcast] NAB 2015 + Rolling Conform + Dropbox For Resolve
Databases - Team Mixing Light talks about their NAB 2015 teachings and then answers two member questions. (mixinglight.com)
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- FCP X’s Big Moment? - the X has its first major Hollywood feature to its credit: Will
Smith’s new movie, Focus. Hidden in this post is the truth: you can’t edit a feature film on a $300 nle. Nearly $2K of 3rd party add ons were needed to get ‘er done. But then, if you talk to the FCP X peeps, that's kind'a how its supposed to work. (provideocoalition.com)
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- The Apollo Awards - colorists working in Asia, don’t miss the chance to be awarded and recognized among your peers and industry professionals! (apollo.onscreenasia.com via @warreneagles)
- [training] Color Grading with DaVinci Resolve for Beginners - Sydney, March 15 & 16th (aftrs.edu.au)
- [webinar] Optimizing The Settings of a Reference Monitor - "Includes best practices for adjusting available
picture settings such as brightness, color temperature and RGB cuts/gains with the 3D LUT workflow in CalMAN Studio." Thursday March 12th (calman.spectracal.com)
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- The Great RBG Guessing Challenge - how well do you know your RGB triplets? Fun. And not an un-useful colorist skill. (rgbchallenge.com via Steve Hullfish)
- With Just A Compass and A Pair Of Snowshoes - meet a British snowshoe artist! "The images sometimes take more than 11 hours to make, and Beck can walk up to 30 miles while completing a single piece." (pri.org)
- [video] How Movies Control Your Brain - Gotta wonder how long
before studios start testing audiences the way these neuroscientists do? (laughingsquid.com)
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- FSI NAB B-Stock Specials - I got a TON of emails last week about the mal-formed link in
last week's newsletter linking to FSI's special deals... including a 20% discount on their B-Stock OLEDs. Here's the link. Again. please, please I hope it works! (shopfsi.com)
- [video] Maingear: Behind the Scenes Tour - who builds an overclocked, water cooled, custom painted (in an automotive downdraft spray booth) production Windows machine? They do. Full disclosure: the owner of Maingear was my neighbor. Great guy. Cool company. (youtube.com)
- [review] How Fast, A 4xSSD RAID System? - bench test of the AKITIO Thunder 2 Quad. "The
speeds you see from this unit are astonishing." (redsharknews.com)
- Boxx Introduces 36-Core, Five GPU Apexx 5 Workstation - "All told, the system has seven expansion card slots to maximize its performance in VFX and animation as well as engineering and architectural workflows". Mac users worldwide just let out a collective wimper. (studiodaily.com)
- XenData’s New LTO Is Now USB 3.0 - "It's a potentially useful tool for a data wrangler on set, who could use it to offload files from camera storage media to LTO tape." (studiodaily.com)
- Nvidia's New Titan X GPU: How Powerful? - "It’s got 12 Gigabytes of RAM, and an astonishing eight billion transistors . . . my first-ever colour television
had sixty seven transistors." (redsharknews.com)
- Four Best Monitor Mounts - some good ideas to get that monitor off the desk. (co-op.kinja.com)
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- [social] 3rd NAB Colorist Mixer - you've chatted with them in online forums and on Social Media. Meet and mingle with the people behind the profile pages who all
love living and chatting color correction. Sunday. (eventbrite.com)
- [travel] Save Money: Las Vegas Monorail Pass - If
you're going to be at NAB, one of the best transportation deals is the Monorail, getting you to and from the Convention Center. If you buy online save money by buying now and having the Pass sent to your home. Plus, get multi-day ticket options that are NOT available in Las Vegas. (lvmonorail.com)
- [social] 18th Media Motion Ball - the attendee list tends to read like a Who's Who of post-production professionals. If this is your first NAB, a great place to meet the people who guide others through this industry. Price includes a
buffet-style sit down dinner. Monte Carlo Hotel. Monday. (mediamotionball.com)
- [social] 14th SuperMeet - the Ultimate (and
granddaddy) of the classic User Group. Big stage. Big presentations. A unbelievably massive raffle. The last few years had a Grand Prize raffle of a $30,000 DaVinci Resolve Colorist Control Surface... Early Bird pricing is in effect. Riveria Hotel. Tuesday. (supermeet.com)
- [PPW] How to Think Like a Colorist - the highlight of my NAB teaching schedule, it's 5 sessions of nuthin' but color grading. We're not ready to announce our A-List colorist presentation... but it's looking like a doozy! (nab15.mapyourshow.com)
- [PPW] SpeedGrade, LOG & RAW, Roundtripping and On-Set Sessions - with MixingLight's Robbie Carman. (nab15.mapyourshow.com)
- [PPW] The Full Grid - if you buy a full
pass to Post | Production World then what kind of classes can you choose between? A PDF download of Field Trips, classes and certifications. (nabshow.com)
- Aerial Robotics and Drone Theater -
long-time readers know my fascination with video drones. It looks like NAB is catering to the fascination. The link takes you to a list of drone-related sessions. (nab15.mapyourshow.com)
- [PPW] Registration - Yeah, it's annoying figuring out where to sign up if you want to attend a Post | Production World event. Here's the link (you start by giving your
name and email). You can buy One-Day or Multi-Day Passes to the educational sessions. (registration.experientevent.com)
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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. Happy Grading! 7,750+ 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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