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Trouble reading this newsletter? Read it online: http://www.aweber.com/t/QKd3p The Tao Colorist Newsletter Curated links of news, reviews, thoughts, career advice,
and humor for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sunday. Issue CCXLI A TaoOfColor.com Publication Publisher: Pat Inhofer
Managing Editor: Jim Wicks
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- Dado Valentic - the colorist, and friend of the Tao, steps away from the color suite to talk with Adobe about video, still
photography and color grading. The article is a sponsored piece but has enough good info to link to it. (provideocoalition.com)
- Color Grading Kurt Cobain’s World - the documentary on Cobain’s life - ‘Montage of Heck’ - took 8 years to get made. Colorist Shane Harris talks the craft of bringing an iconic musician’s story to life.
(postperspective.com)
- [video] The
Eye vs A Video Camera - "Your eyes don’t always capture the world exactly as a video camera would. [this video] outlines the similarities and differences between your eye and a video camera." (filmmakeriq.com)
- Why Is Blue The World’s Favourite Colour? - this article doesn't actually answer 'why'. Rather it details the results of a 10 country survey about people's first, second and third favorite color. (yougov.co.uk)
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- Hang time 2 - need color grading LUTs for your GoPro footage? Hangtime 2 is a LUT pack 'specially designed' for Protune footage shot on GoPro—if you're into this sort of thing. (groundcontrolcolor.com)
- [iOS app] Finding the Perfect Color Combos - "Coolors draws on a database of thousands of human-created palettes. From that database, the algorithm computationally compares values like RGB to generate totally new color palettes."
(wired.com)
- Avid Executives Discuss Avid Everywhere Evolution
and Pro Tools Progress - Yup. What the headline says. (svgeurope.org)
- [video] After Effects CC: Motion tracking The Impossible - a presentation by Andrew Kramer at Adobe's booth at NAB 2015. (wolfcrow.com)
- [video] 101 Shades Of Gray: Advanced Black &
White Processing - a terrific 1-hour seminar from a still photographer. Some great insights on contrast, image evaluation and manipulation. (filmmakeriq.com)
- THAT Studio Interview - "we tracked down Kanen to get his impressions about NAB 2015, ask about the reorganization of THAT Studio, find out what sort of 4K content he’s made available and plenty more." (provideocoalition.com)
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- Comcast Really, Really Wants You To Like It - the myriad of steps they're taking to improve the customer service experience... except, of course, if you want to cancel your service. (yahoo.com)
- [video] NAB 2015:Barco On Rec.2020 and Metameric Failure with Laser Projectors - a really good discussion about the here and now on Laser projectors and the super-wide gamut color space. (cinetechgeek.com)
- [video] NAB 2015: Dolby Cinema and their new HDR Laser Projector - a discussion with Dolby about their new HDR system. (cinetechgeek.com)
- Tomorrowland: HDR Laser Projection in 4 U.S. Cities - are your ready for 4K HDR laser projection? Then let's road-trip it to one of the four cities that will see a
special HDR version of Disney's upcoming Tomorrowland in select AMC Prime theaters being retrofitted with the Dolby Cinema HDR system. The closest nearest Tao HQ? Atlanta. Would I drive 6 hours to see this? You bet! Hey FSI... tell me the day and time and we'll meet up. (theverge.com)
- [video] NAB 2015, Barco All In On Laser Projection - an in-depth discussion of
Barco's roadmap for their range of laser projectors. (cinetechgeek.com)
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- Christina in Red - colorist Rob Bessette is a fan of time periods seen in a new light. Click through the link to his blog and read his thoughts on Autochrome, a color process from the turn of the century—last century, that is. (robbessette.com)
- Lumu - back in the day, photographers and cinematographers used light meters to get their shots. Fast forward to now and Lumu, a nifty little light meter that plugs into your iPhone. Cool looking. Supposedly
accurate. (lu.mu)
- [video] Alexa Mini - you grade it, or you’d like to, but have you ever taken the time to get to know the camera? In the time it will take
you to sip your morning cup of joe - dig into tour of the smallest camera from ARRI. (blog.abelcine.com)
- [video] There Theremin: How Science Fiction Got Its Sound - learn the story behind one of the most iconic sounds in film history. (filmmakeriq.com)
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- Orlando Post Pros: Post-NAB Review - join the Tao
Newsletter Publisher for a discussion of NAB 2015. Pros on the panel include Oliver Peters, Bob Zelin and other local luminaries. Will also be streamed live on YouTube. Monday, May 18. (orlandoedits.com)
- Mr. Final Cut Pro Speaks - the 15-year Chief Architect of Final Cut Pro has retired from Apple. His first stop? A meeting at the LAFCP User Group on May 27 to discuss filmmaking. Register to attend. (eventbrite.com)
- FCP X Creative Summit - "We kickoff the conference with a trip to the FCPX Engineering Building to hear first-hand from the great minds behind Final Cut Pro X." Followed by two days, with three tracks of presentations. Your Tao Newsletter Publisher will be presenting three seminars on color correcting in FCP X
including how (and why) to integrate it with DaVinci Resolve. (fcpxcreativesummit.com)
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- Pictures from a Totally Ruined Polaroid - you spend all day making your client’s film projects look great.
Remember that as you look at this: what pictures from a totally ruined Polaroid look like. It’s so bad it’s art. (wired.com)
- [video] Walking Through Shanghai In A Backwards World - Fun. Funny. (petapixel.com)
- Color Your Feelings With The Psychology Of Color Pencil Set - for adults. (mentalfloss.com)
- Shape vs Color: Istanbul’s Vibrant Contemporary Architecture - very cool. (telegraph.co.uk)
- [video] Pouring Molten Aluminum In A Watermelon - why? Because it's YouTube. (youtube.com)
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- [white paper] BBC Approach To HDR - a quick summary of a detailed White Paper on a revised approach to HDR.
The BBC link is a direct download of the PDF... it is *definitely* worth the read, even if the math makes no sense to the average colorist. Tons of great info on human perception, contrast ratios and a simple approach to HDR that's back-compatible AND future-proofed. (meko.co.uk via @DesmetBram | downloads.bbc.co.uk)
- 5K 60Hz
Shootout: iMac 5K vs Mac Pro ‘Tube’ and ‘Tower’ - "another OpenGL "shootout" that includes the 2010 Mac Pro tower sporting top NVIDIA GPUs with two or more DisplayPort 1.2 ports." (barefeats.com)
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Tweets of the Past Few Weeks (Rob Bessette Edition) |
This grade is absolutely fantastic. Not an easy one to do at all.
Damn, Soret is good: moving-picture.com
@robsbessette
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- Aeromobil Flying Car Crashes During Critical Test - grrr... WHEN will this be solved??? (independent.co.uk)
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- ‘Remote S’ App For Apple Watch Takes Control Of Tesla Model S - because having this on your phone is too... 2013? (9to5mac.com)
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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. Happy Grading! 7,950+ 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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