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Trouble reading this newsletter? Read it online: http://www.aweber.com/t/RBc0j The Tao Colorist Newsletter Curated links of news, reviews, thoughts, career advice, and humor for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sunday. Issue CCXLIV A TaoOfColor.com Publication Publisher: Pat Inhofer
Managing Editor: Jim Wicks
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- The
Color of Mad Max: Fury Road - wanna know the secret to color grading Mad Max? Wanna know how they pulled off the day for night scenes? Click through for an insightful interview with Colorist Eric Whipp who pulled it off. (postperspective.com)
- [podcast] John Seale: On Fury Road - it takes a great DP to make the colorist look good. In this episode of The RC they have an interview with Fury Road's cinematographer, John Seale. (fxguide.com)
- Understanding Color - for those just getting started in color this is a good jumping point on saturation and values, and six color harmonies that work. Of course, it helps digital colorists if this information is used on-set, before a single frame is
recorded. (blenderguru.com)
- [video] Goddard’s Red,
White, and Blue - Jean-Luc Godard, the 1960s French New Wave filmmaker, treated color like a real, tangible character in his films. Watch this 3 minute supercut of his movies to see for yourself. (slate.com)
- Colorist Stephen Nakamura: Grading ‘Tomorrowland’ In HDR - this article from April also lays out the short-term plans for the current and next HDR movie playing in AMC
Prime cinemas. (studiodaily.com)
- The Colors of Mold - okay colorists, here’s a question you likely haven’t been asked before: Why does mold come in so many colors? A story to help you gain knowledge for your next food job. (popsci.com)
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- Building a Free FCP X Color Correction Filter - using Motion, editor Oliver Peters has created a single FCP X filter that covers most of the standard color adjustments you'll need in FCP X. Free to download. (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- [video] Good-Looking Sharpening - using Adobe's 'unsharp mask' filter for superior sharpening of your images. (nofilmschool.com)
- Hues on
first - fast and easy color correction using After Effects. Chris Zwar’s tutorial is targeted at visual effects artists. But like most things in life, a nimble mind will find ways to adapt these concepts to our uses. (provideocoalition.com)
- [DaVinci Resolve] Blockbuster Looks:
Transformers - there must be dozens of tutorials on how to execute the most despised of modern grades: the Transformer’s look. This is the latest one. (premiumbeat.com)
- A New Technique... - UK-based Colorist, and friend of the Tao, Kevin Shaw gives a step by step breakdown of a grade he did for a non-profit music video. It's a new technique for him that he's happy to share
with us using Nucoda and DaVinci. (icolorist.com)
- [video] How To Read A Waveform Monitor: Part 1 - an interesting article and video aimed at the digital photographer that veers into many tangents related to waveforms. If these concepts are new to you, you'll find this interesting but a bit unfocused. (wolfcrow.com)
- [video] DaVinci Resolve: Isolating Skin Tones In
Extreme Grades - using the Layer Mixer node. (youtu.be)
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- Rec. 2020 Color Gamut Achievable Soon - so says 3M's Display Materials and Systems Division at an industry trade event last week. Click through for the details. (hdguru.com)
- Kinefinity's Camera's to Bundle Assimilate Scratch - taking a page from Blackmagic, it seems? (studiodaily.com)
- Tarantino's 'Hateful Eight': Biggest 70mm Release in 20 Years - it's being shot on 65mm with "a set of Ultra Panavision 70 anamorphic lenses that apparently haven't seen the light of day since the were used on the 1966 epic Khartoum." (nofilmschool.com)
- Star Wars: The Despecialized Edition - the Star Wars that was first released in 1977 no longer exists. Over the years, it has been edited, FX shots swapped, and colors changed. Read about the fans who have spent years collecting the original source prints and how they hope to bring it to blu-ray. (polygon.com via @tparish)
- Apple TV Doubles Share Of Premium Video Viewing In Just One Quarter - overtaking Roku, "It looks like desktops are losing the battle in the home, bringing the TV Everywhere viewing platform full circle and returning viewers to the living room." (9to5mac.com)
- Apple Pulls Planned Apple TV Hardware Revamp - and postponed their planned announcement From WWDC.
(9to5mac.com)
- 2014
European Cinema Attendence - the numbers have been finalized. "The message is that while Hollywood studios are focused on China and other emerging markets, they should not forget that Europe is as much of a large market as North America and some parts of it are still growing significantly." (celluloidjunkie.com)
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8K on YouTube - shot on RED Epic Dragon 6K in portrait orientation and then upscaled in After Effects. Still, we love the cheeky-ness of the filmmakers who posted, “4K is so ‘early 2015.’ (engadget.com)
- Productivity and You - there is no one-size-fits-all approach to productivity. What works for one person may fail miserably for you. A productivity expert shares the 4 types of productivity styles, helps you figure out your style and then lists the productivity apps and websites that work
best for you. (99u.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. 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 | 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] Water Cooled Macbook 2015 - does partially submerging the bottom of your Macbook in a pan of cool water increase the performance, or just destroy your $2,000 machine? The fun begins at 7:36. K-razy. (youtube.com)
- [interactive] Point Your Pointer - okay, have you ever watched a cat chase a beam of light? Fun times, right? Click through and let your cursor be the beam of light and the website be the cat. Don’t get it? You will. (pointerpointer.com)
- [interactive] Press the Spacebar - how many times can you press the spacebar in 5 seconds, 10 seconds or even 15
seconds? Don't know? Then this game is just for you. (zimm-co.com)
- [video] Hollywood Attacks! The Best Scenes From Disaster Movies - embedded in one post. (premiumbeat.com)
- A Journey With With Legendary Canon EF 1200mm Lens - "Put a unique used lens on the market, the Internet starts to buzz, and then a well-known local newspaper calls
and asks if they can photograph with the lens and write a story about it." (petapixel.com)
- [video] American Sniper: Showreel - it's all about the power of smoke and dust. (digitalcanvas.co)
- [video] Las Vegas 1962 - Chicago-based colorist Jeff Altman inherited a box of his grandfather's Kodachrome 16mm home videos but "waited until he was working as a colorist to begin transferring the
startlingly clear images to video on a Spirit DataCine." (studiodaily.com) Read an interview with Jeff about his
process. (citylab.com)
- Widow Recycles Original Apple 1 Computer - not realizing it's worth $200K. (9to5mac.com)
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- Thunderbolt 3 and The Future of
PC - What Thunderbolt 3 means for the future of PC connection standards. (digitaltrends.com)
- HDMI Ready for Challengers - "we spoke with Jeff Park, HDMI LLC senior product manager and evangelist, for an update on where HDMI is today and where it might be headed next." Interesting to hear their take on UHD and HDR. (hdguru.com)
- [video] Review: OxygenTec ProPanel Colorist Control Surface - an overview of this $800 controls surface with an embedded video review by colorist Warren Eagle. (premiumbeat.com)
- 4K Video
Production Using Thunderbolt 2 - with friend of the Tao and workflow specialist, Gary Adcock. (youtube.com)
- [review] Maingear Epic Force X99 PC With Four Titan X Cards - the owner of Maingear is an acquaintance. His passion for these high-end PC rigs is genuine. A review of his latest creation. (pcworld.com)
- [review] Fast Flash for MacPro Towers: Sonnet Tempo PCIe - for those of you like your Newsletter Publisher that are keeping their non-trash can Mac Pros alive—this is
*really* interesting. It turns out, the Sonnet can migrate to the New Mac Pro, if you wish. (barefeats.com)
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- Shaving Dogs Into Cubes - it's a new Japanese Craze. It's funny as hell and if I owned one of these breeds I'm not sure I wouldn't start doing this as well, if the Tao Treasurer would allow it. (mtv.com.au)
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- Silk Road Mastermind Gets Life In Prison - bitcoins or real coins... being a criminal overlord gets you walking the same walk. (nypost.com)
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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. Happy Grading! 8,100+ 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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