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Managing Editor: Jim Wicks
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- [video] How To Create Great Work - do you feel like a beginner in our business? Even if you've been working for many
many years? Here's some inspirational advice—well executed—to keep you on The Path and make sure you don't do what most of your peers do... quit. (youtube.com)
- An Indie
Director’s Guide to Color Correction - Four colorists with NYC-based Nice Shoes production/post-production studio pool their best advice to filmmakers looking for great color on a reasonable budget. Of the top 7 things that they recommend we like number 1 best: consult a colorist early. But since this Newsletter is preaching to the choir—maybe this is one of those links you need to share on your blogs, Facebook and Twitter feeds. (moviemaker.com)
- [video] The Dying Art of Camera Filters - this fantastic video talks about how DPs use filters to
control light at specific wavelengths. And why. A terrific look into the choices DPs make—that every colorist should understand. Plus, an explanation why this knowledge seems to be fading away. (wolfcrow.com)
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- [video] FCPX and Color Board - if you’re an editor-colorist Mark Spencer shows you how to give your shots more punch
using the Color Board and the new mask tools in FCPX 10.2. (youtube.com)
- [videos] Vimeo Video School: Final Cut Pro X - it's 17 lessons from importing media to exporting and uploading. (premiumbeat.com)
- [video] DaVinci Resolve: How To Match Skin Tones - using qualifiers. Good tutorial that stops just before explaining the difference between a technical match and a perceptual match. (noamkroll.com)
- Create Quick and Easy Vignettes In Premiere Pro - a staple of color crading. (premiumbeat.com)
- [video] DaVinci Resolve: Roundtrip Workflow - a roundup of two videos by Denver Riddle on how to handle moving timelines between your NLE and Resolve. (premiumbeat.com)
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- Mad Max in Black and White? - anyone who has seen director George Miller’s re-boot knows that it is big, loud, and
colorful. DI Colorist Eric Whipp’s work pops off the screen. But it turns out that Miller insists that "the best version of this movie is black and white.” (slashfilm.com)
- Getting HDR Content To Next-Gen TVs - "The
following is a look at what some content providers are working on to deliver HDR content to the home", with comments from Amazon, Netflix, Samsung and more. (hdguru.com)
- The Unintended Consequences Of Digital
Cinema - "Colour grading is a bit backward at the moment. HDR – televisions can do it more easily but for theatres it is difficult. Our directors are never going to do colour correction for television first on monitors. Theatre should come first and TV should be derivative of that." And lots of other interesting statements about theatrical distribution from a discussion at CinemaCon. (celluloidjunkie.com)
- How To Watch Apple’s WWDC Keynote Live Stream On Windows and Android - because Windows users need to know. (9to5mac.com)
- [review] The Best Picture I’ve Seen In A Theater - "In the Dolby Cinema presentation of Disney's "Tomorrowland," fiber-optic-fed laser light engines, 4K resolution, HDR contrast and Atmos sound combine to
create a breathtaking cinema experience. Tomorrow's theater experience can't come home soon enough." (cnet.com)
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- The ‘Net 30’ Billing Trap Part 2 - an alternative to NET 30 billing
schemes. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Revisiting Resolve Grouping: Using
Post-Clip Groups - as an alternative to grading at the timeline level. (mixinglight.com)
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Degrading Footage: How To Purposely Mess Up Shots - "This Insight is all about breaking your shots and making them as nasty as possible. I was challenged by a director recently to take some POV footage and make it look like an evil virus looking for a human host." (mixinglight.com)
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- [video] Alexa Mini: Multiple Configurations - "In this video we present options for building the Mini for gimbals, handheld and shoulder-mounted shooting, as well as a full studio configuration." (blog.abelcine.com)
- [video] Using The Inspire One - creating a tribute to firefighter readiness, this post details some of the challenges of working with small sensor size. (droneblog.com via Christophe Delaunay)
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- Sneak Preview: DaVinci Resolve 12 - starting in June, it looks like Team Blackmagic is criss-crossing the country previewing Resolve 12 to user groups. I've got a link is to our local Orlando Post Pros group plus several others around the US. Check your local group to see if they're visiting your city. (orlandoedits.com | mopictive.org | lafcpug.org )
- 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 to be really really bad at color correction! (fcpxcreativesummit.com)
- Apple’s Iconic Company Store Is Closing Its Doors Next Week - I mention this here only because I'll be at their campus at
the end of the month. I was hoping to pick up an Apple-branded writing journal. Oh, well. (9to5mac.com)
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- [video] In Praise of the Chair - "One of the great things about detailed production design is that it pays off in unexpected ways. So today I explore the weird possibilities of that most common of objects: the chair." (vimeo.com)
- License to Drive - check out this fun interactive website that pays tribute to the 007 cars. Scroll - or drive - through time to see how James Bond’s iconic cars have changed over the years. (evanshalshaw.com)
- Magical Puffball Mirror - both cool. And disturbing. (neatorama.com)
- The Frustrations Of Office Life - as expressed by mini-figures. Fun. (petapixel.com)
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- [update] Running Resolve on A Shoestring - a couple of months ago filmmaker Craig Marshall reported on how he built a system to run Resolve with an entry level GPU. Using the Resolve 'Standard Candle' test, Marshall tests his ‘shoestring’ PC with a better GPU. (redsharknews.com)
- [video] CalMan Studio Lite Monitor Calibration Software - for DaVinci Resolve and Scratch. A round-up of training videos from
SpectraCal. (wolfcrow.com)
- Thunderbolt 3 - Intel ups the speed and changes the standard Thunderbolt connector from a Mini DisplayPort to
USB Type-C. It’s one port to rule them all. Or so the marketing claims.TB3 supports USB, DisplayPort, and PCI Express, all in one wire. (fcp.co)
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- How A Movie Changed One Man’s Vision Forever - he was born 'stereoblind', unable to see the world in 3D. Read how all that changed... thanks to 3D cinema. (bbc.com)
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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. Happy Grading! 8,050+ 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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