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Trouble reading this newsletter? Read it online: http://www.aweber.com/t/P1SHt The Tao Colorist Newsletter Curated links of news, reviews, thoughts, career advice, and humor for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sunday. Issue CCXLV A TaoOfColor.com Publication Publisher: Pat Inhofer
Managing Editor: Jim Wicks
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To all you dads out there (and to my Dad reading this), Happy Father's Day!
Next weekend there may not be a Newsletter. I'm out in San Jose teaching several color grading classes at the FCP X
Creative Summit. And over the last few years I've learned that the best things that happen at these conferences happen outside the classroom. I always try to maximize those networking opportunities.
If I can publish this Newsletter next weekend, I shall. But no promises. And the following weekend is July 4, when us Yankees celebrate the Independence of our nation. Definitely no Newsletter that weekend.
So if I don't publish next week then I'll see you in three weeks.
But now that I've
written this down—I'll make an extra effort to get the Newsletter out next Sunday... even if it's a massively shortened edition.
See you next week—or in three weeks! Either
way:
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- [video] Roger Deakins, ARRI, and LUTs - the DP who who took the early leap by lensing the first Digital Intermediate transfer, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, gets technical. Roger talks about shooting ARRI with an open gate, and working with LUTs. (filmmakermagazine.com)
- 100 years
of The Life and Death Of Technicolor - an ongoing theatrical exhibition of this mythic recording system. At the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. (fastcodesign.com)
- The Colorblind Director - "Yes, [he's] unable to see midtones, and this video essay shows how his color blindness shows up in not only the look of his movies, but their content as well." It's a
pithy post and the embedded video is more an extended sample reel. Still, interesting. (nofilmschool.com)
- [Podcast] Voices in the Wire - "Radio Diaries uncovers what might have happened in Frank Conrad’s garage, where some people say modern broadcasting began." Fantastic podcast. Also, it tells the story of the man who invented the first field audio recorder... and amassed a collection of over 15,000 recordings. (99percentinvisible.org)
- [Podcast] The Sound of Horror: It's All In Your
Head - the making of the soundtrack for the TV Show 'Hannibal' is the backdrop for this excellent exploration on the craft of making horror movie sound. Good stuff. (99percentinvisible.org)
- [podcast] The Science of Misremembering - "The problem isn’t that our memory is bad, but that we believe it isn’t." A great podcast discussing the fundamentals why this colorist doesn't put much faith into the notion of 'memory colors'. (youarenotsosmart.com)
- Pump You Up - color grading, editing are not intensely physical tasks, so why are you dead tired come 6 p.m.? Sitting a desk all day can have serious consequences on your neck and back. Check out four yoga poses that can help undo the damage and re-energize your work. (99u.com)
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- [video] Avid: Secondary Color Correction - colorist, and friend of the Tao, Steve Hullfish, explains what a secondary is and how to master it in Avid Symphony. (provideocoalition.com)
- The FCPX + RED + Resolve Dance - editor
Oliver Peters encountered a number of issues in the round trip process on a recent project. Click through to read the 8 steps that he used to overcome those challenges. (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- [video] How to Build a DIT Cart - plus the latest on Thunderbolt 3 and post-production implications from the next version of Mac OS X. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- [video] Lumetri Color Panel
Explained - Creative Cloud 2015 was released this week. The new Lumetri color panel was introduced to Premiere Pro CC 2015 for editors who want to do color work without leaving their NLE. (youtube.com)
- [video] Premiere Pro: The Future is
Colorful - "not only is Adobe helping make the future more colorful, the future is bright for all of us because color is on everyone’s mind." A free video recorded by MixingLight's Robbie Carman, shortly after he demo'ed the new color features for Adobe at NAB. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Keying For Correction - Colorista has always had several innovative features for isolating and changing colors. If you've never used it, watch this video to get you some Colorista III envy. (redgiant.com)
- OS X El
Capitan Will Greatly Improve Performance - of Adobe CC apps. Learn why. (nofilmschool.com)
- [podcast] Confessions of an Avid Product Designer - "We talk about the intricacies of ensuring older editors are not upset with design changes, and simultaneous need for innovation to ensure younger editors are enticed to try out Avid products." (aotg.com)
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- [survey] How much we are earning - a UK-based company surveyed our fellow creatives to find out who eared what. The results are not pleasant, "especially if you work in
film. And freelance. Or you’re a woman." Includes a link to the full report. (redsharknews.com)
- ‘Jurassic World’ Sets Box Office Record - as expected but not adjusted for ticket price inflation. (nytimes.com)
- Worldwide 3D Box Office Roars To Life With ‘Jurassic World’ - "earning about 65 percent of its box-office take outside the U.S. from 3D screenings . . . as usual, the 3D numbers were more muted inside the
U.S." (studiodaily.com)
- 80% Of The
World’s Internet Traffic will Be Video - by 2019. Or so says CISCO. (reelseo.com)
- Your Guide
to 360-Degree Video on YouTube - "you can learn what it takes to create these kind of videos for YouTube, how to watch them, and what they are good for." (reelseo.com)
- Cuba Has 300 Cinemas But Only Two Are Digital - being half-Cuban, this story is personally interesting. "The heat, dust and humidity in Cuba, coupled with old cinemas without air conditioning or even proper ventilation, means that maintaining digital equipment is a challenge . . . Extensive refurbishment would be required in nearly all cinemas before digital projection could be installed. (celluloidjunkie.com)
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- [video] Using Resolve’s Curves To Deconstruct A Look - and then apply it to your project. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Grade Breakdown: Challenge Your Imagination - "Visualising the finished image
is often the hardest part of grading so in this insight thats what we will focus on." (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Grading CG Footage - "When grading camera footage our job is often to fix numerous issues and add our creative flair but on a job like this I like to get down and dirty and introduce some of that real world style to it." (mixinglight.com)
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- [video] Editing Masterclass - put on a pot of your favorite coffee for this one. It clocks in at nearly an hour. Editor Steve Audette talks about cutting the PBS television documentary series, Frontline. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- Red Giant BulletProof Discontinued - "BulletProof failed what has always been my number one rule for designing products at Red Giant: Will I actually use it? I’ve given a lot of thought as to why that is, and I have a few ideas. If you’re interested, read on." (prolost.com)
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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. Check your local group to see if they're visiting your city. (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! June 26 - 28. (fcpxcreativesummit.com)
- First Annual
Bay Area SuperMeetUp - with special guest Randy Ubillos as the featured speaker. If you don't know, Randy created FCP X, FCP Legacy, and the first versions of Premiere. Friday June 26. (supermeet.com)
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- [video] The Power of Hugs - in honor of Father’s Day in many countries this weekend, check out this UK advert. It taps into the emotion of the father-son bond. (youtube.com)
- [video] Coke vs Molten Lead - it’s not quite science and it’s not quite art. But it’s nifty. (youtube.com)
- An Epic History Of The Movie Trailer -
"how did the modern movie trailer come to be?" (neatorama.com)
- Tiny Lightning Storms of A Mini Tesla Coil - stunning. (petapixel.com)
- Super-Slick Demo Reels From 2015 - nice round-up. But takes a while for the page to load. (premiumbeat.com)
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- Samsung UE55JS8500 SUHD TV Review - "Samsung’s creation of a new “SUHD” designation to market the company’s top-tier Ultra HD TVs – featuring quantum dot colours and HDR (high dynamic range) support, not found on lower-down models." (hdtvtest.co.uk)
- [review] Sony’s New Reference Monitor -
tick the boxes: 4K, check. HDR, check, OLED, check. Sony anticipates that high dynamic range 4K is the next step for workflows. All that and more for just under $18k US... although, a 'million to one' contrast ratio? Assuming they're starting from pure black, just call it "quadrillion to one" and end all discussion. (redsharknews.com)
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- [video] Rew Day - a creative short animation about a day in the life,
only backwards. Strange. (vimeo.com)
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- [video] Run, Rabbit, Run - life happens in the blink of an eye. And when it does, this wascally wabbit knows it’s best to keep running -
and don’t stop for anything! The Tao Treasurer has doubts if this rabbit actually makes it to the end... so if you get emotional about these things you may want to skip it. (vimeo.com)
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- [video] Low Visibility Landing - if you have a fear of flying, either this video will confirm those fears or reveal the miracle of modern aviation. It's the view from the cockpit of an Airbus as it lands in—literally—zero visibility. (youtube.com)
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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. Happy Grading! 8,150+ 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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