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- The (Dry) Eyes Have Had It - your eye for color is your craft. But 'dry eye' has ruined people's lives - with eye pain is so excruciating some feel suicidal, yet ophthalmologists can see nothing wrong. And the one doctor
working to find the root cause? Was practically drummed out of his profession. The full story is worth the read. (digg.com)
- Talent, and Greatness - this post attempts to answer the burning question - why becoming truly great requires more than just good instincts. The author’s takeaway seems to be, ‘We also
need structure.’ (creativitypost.com)
- New In the Wolfram Language: ColorBalance - programming an automated color balance operation. (blog.wolfram.com via David Bell)
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- DaVinci Resolve 12: Out Of Beta, Available For Download - just in time for IBC. (nofilmschool.com)
- 5 On-Set Data Management Tips - a good collection of tips. (premiumbeat.com)
- Adobe Announces Sweeping Updates - "Users can look forward to greater color fidelity between Premiere Pro and After Effects via the Lumetri color panel — which carries over to After Effects." Scouring the Press Releases and Adobe's website, SpeedGrade is only mentioned as a descriptor of the 'Lumetri Color' technology. Nothing new there... keep on moving. (thenextweb.com)
- FCPX: Creating A Video From An Image Sequence - "you can effectively bypass the unnecessary step of having to convert your sequence to a video
clip by using After Effects." (rocketstock.com)
- DaVinci Resolve 12: On-Set Data Backup - Resolve 12 "is now a very cool, easy-to-use on-set data management tool for ingest-monkeys, card-wranglers and actually-real DITs. It’s also the
Assistant Editor’s best friend, allowing for easy metadata markup of assets, automated audio waveform sync, complex searches, and file organization." (premiumbeat.com)
- CineGrain Color: 5 LUT Packages - designed to re-create classic looks, for the
LUT-lovers out there. (cinegrain.com)
- [tutorial] Resolve 12: Grading, Compositing and Editing - Alexis Van Hurkman shares how he executed his green screen 'Just Do It' color correction public service video—which we featured in our last newsletter. Good tips in here. (vanhurkman.com)
- Resolve 12: An Editor's Review - friend of the Tao, whose writings we regularly feature, Oliver Peters weighs in with his thoughts on editing with the Pubic Beta. What's nice: Oliver tested Resolve on more than one machine to get a better perspective on what Resolve 12 can (and can't) do. (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- [video] Color Grading a Film - colorist Denver Riddle gives an hour long, 30,000 foot tutorial on how he graded the feature film, ‘Just Let Go’ using Color Finale in FCPX. (youtube.com)
- The Return of the Duck - Automatic Duck held a special place in many an editor’s heart (including the Publisher of the Tao Colorist Newsletter). But then it went away. Now it’s back again. Updated Media Copy and Automatic Duck XimportAE; a way to get Final Cut Pro X projects into After Effects. (provideocoalition.com)
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- Is Power the 'Elephant In the Room' For Better Pixels - as we move from HD to: UHD + wide color gamut + High Dynamic Range Images... guess what? Each of those moves alone creates
a big increase in power draw. Add them all up? Click through for the implications. (displaydaily.com via @FSImonitors)
- Consumer Electronics Association Defines An 'HDR Display', Mostly - they just don't define how HDR is supposed to perform. If you read the article, it's not as strange as it seems. (hdguru.com)
- Beasts of No Nation - Netflix’s maiden motion picture could change the movie business. How? (variety.com via Amanda Wicks)
- Turning a Negative to a Positive - clever, inventive, ingenious. Some of the words being used by a film critic to describe how a film’s marketing team turned his bad review into a good one. And the best part is, he’s not complaining. (adweek.com)
- [videos] Apple’s New iPhone 6S & 6S Plus Get 4k Video - but to see the difference your nose needs to be 6 centimeters from the screen. Click through for some demo videos. (nofilmschool.com)
- Adobe Flash’s Demise Continues - this time, thanks to Amazon.com. (9to5mac.com)
- Panasonic Enters the 4K OLED Market - "Panasonic discontinued plasma TV production in 2013 . . . and it has long been expected that it would look to introduce an OLED TV to fill the void." (hdguru.com)
- Sony Pictures: Supporting Dolby Vision Mastering - "The agreement does not, however, include support for the separate Dolby Vision HDR standard, which has been announced for support by Warner Home Video, Vudu and Vizio’s forthcoming Reference Series TVs" (hdguru.com)
- New Apple TV Unveiled - but no mention of 4K. Or TVs. Just the next generation of its set-top box—which is too big to sit on any modern set. But it now includes apps (think: games) and Siri commands (think: watch your mouth). (hdguru.com)
- IFA Electronics Show: Display Trends - a roundup of new alliances and trends from a German trade show. Interesting reading in here. (hdguru.com)
- LG webOS adds DirecTV 4K - it seems safe to say, if 4K is coming to the living room quicker than expected... then its because everyone is bypassing the established broadcast, cable distributors. (hdguru.com)
- HP Retains Workstation Lead, Barely - but Dell is coming on strong. (studiodaily.com)
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- Anatomy Of A Grading Suite - colorist Robbie Carman offers insights on how to design your grading suite, including some aspects
you might not have considered before. (mixinglight.com)
- DaVinci Resolve Remote Grading: An Introduction - "Remote grading allows you to control one DaVinci Resolve machine from another . . . as if you were grading it in the room with it." Learn how to set it up. (mixinglight.com)
- [Video] Rotoscoping In Resolve: An Introduction - "As a colorist, you may be thinking 'when will I need to rotoscope something?' I felt that way too but as I work on bigger and more difficult commercials the need for fine rotoscoping is becoming more and more necessary." (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Delivering Multi-Channel Audio From Resolve - learn how to set up complicated audio outputs as part of your final deliverables. (mixinglight.com)
- The Art Of Color Grading: Tech vs Art - "knowing the precise XY coordinates of a particular hue on a CIE 1931 diagram is great, but does the shot you’re working on actually look good?" A terrific article by Dan Moran about marketing yourself as a colorist in an age of free software and YouTube deliverables. (mixinglight.com)
- Resolve Color Management + RAW Footage - have you heard someone say, 'RAW isn't video'? It appears, DaVinci Resolve 12 has given us a great use-case for explaining this in the context of the new 'Resolve Color Management' workflow, where the 'broken' behavior of choosing an Input Color Space for RAW footage is NOT broken at all. What the heck am I talking about? Click through for a serious edumacation. (mixinglight.com)
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- [video] Fully Remastered, Fully explained - okay, is it just us or does this presentation feel like the volume and energy is set at 11 (thank you, Spinal Tap). Beyond that, interesting to learn what is mastering, what it means when a classic gets remastered and where the term 'remastered' came from in the first place. (youtube.com)
- Movie Music to Grade By - looking for some new ideas for tunes to play in your color suite? Head on over to editor Jonny Elwyn’s site for his favorite movie soundtracks to work to. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- How to Write Your ‘About Me’ Page - ever come up blank trying to write your bio for the ‘About Me’ page? It can be tough. Check out this step-by-step process for making a page that feels authentic and gets you the clients you deserve. (99u.com)
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- Amsterdam Supermeet - if you're reading this on Sunday morning, in Amsterdam... hopefully you had a great time at the Colorist Mixer. And if you act now there might (MIGHT) be a few tickets left for tonight's Supermeet. (supermeet.com)
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- [video] Can a Star Wars Blaster Bolt Be Dodged? - we at the Tao love when people put their blaster where their mouth is. Myth Busters travels to a galaxy far, far away to find the answer to the question: can a non-Jedi dodge a Star Wars Blaster Bolt? (youtube.com)
- How To Create 360º Video
- Definitely fun for the next-generation filmmaker in you. (filmmakeriq.com)
- The BEEcosystem: Keep Bees As Indoor Pets - Looks cool! You go first... (odditycentral.com)
- Live Drawing A 3D Spider - the best part is watching the girl at the end. Fun. (youtu.be)
- 8 Essential Musical Acts Of The 70’s - but then you read the article which doesn't have the
courage of its convictions and calls these eight the most 'enduring'. Still, if you're a child of the 70s (or early 80s), it's a trip - down memory lane. (cnn.com)
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- [video] FSI DM250 + Pomfort LiveGrade Pro - grade directly to the display with real-time LUT updates. Being demoed at IBC. The video shows the details and setup. (youtu.be | twitter.com)
- [video] Build a DCP Storage Device, On The Cheap - "If you operate a small independent cinema, this [Library Management System] can be a nice cheap solution to help manage your content." Plus - good information about DCI and its underpinnings. 25-minute run time. (cinetechgeek.com)
- Shoot 360 With The GoPro Odyssey - and $15,000. "Features such as genlock camera synchronization, multi-camera control and extended battery life aim to eliminate challenges faced by
content creators at the forefront of immersive content capture." (nofilmschool.com)
- Samsung UE55JS9000 Curved, Quantum Dot, UHD, HDR 10bit - they hit almost all the acronyms. But is it any good? And which acronym did they miss?
(hdtvtest.co.uk)
- Hisense Unveils ULED Quantum-Dot 4K LED TV - it seems remarkably similar to the Samsung from the article above. (hdguru.com)
- Blackmagic IBC 2015 Hardware Announcements - cameras, adapters, converter - oh my. (nofilmschool.com)
- New G-Tech Gear at IBC - includes a mag reader for RED and an 8-bay Thunderbolt 2 RAID. (studiodaily.com)
- Atomos Releases 4K HDMI Recorder - it's the Ninja Assassin... named for its target
market of 14-year-old video game players?? Probably not, based on its feature set and pricing. (wolfcrow.com)
- Four Quad-Core Macs Compared - "which Quad-Core Mac is best? It depends on your priorities. CPU speed? GPU speed? Storage speed? All of the above?" And strategies for beefing up your
2010 Mac Pro tower. (barefeats.com)
- Sony 4K LCD TV Review - is this the best consumer TV of the year? Even compared to the OLEDs? (hdtvtest.co.uk)
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- Jet-Helicopter Hybrid: Luxury Vehicle Of Your Dreams - when will they stop teasing us with this stuff??? Or to ask it another way: Which will come first—flying cars or Jedi Knights? (fortune.com)
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- Homo Naledi: A Newly Discovered Human Relative - in a remote cave in South Africa, they've found the remains of almost 15 individuals from a previously unknown genus. It's being called the most significant find since Lucy. (arstechnica.com)
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- Color Correction Look Book - This
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- 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
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- 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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