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- The Use Of Warm and Cold in 19 Films - a well-edited mash-up. (mentorless.com)
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- DaVinci Resolve: The Mythbusters VR Experience - the Discovery series jumps on the VR bandwagon and tap DaVinci Resolve Studio for the grade. Click through for details and links. (news.doddleme.com)
- [video] Nuke: The LUE Color Grading Toolset - an embed showing this early pre-release version. (liftgammagain.com)
- [video] The Infrared Look - "chances are you're just looking for something that looks otherworldly and dreamlike -- something that'll communicate to your audience that, 'No, this isn't reality, guys.' " (nofilmschool.com)
- Idiot’s Guide To 3D LUT Display Calibration - a humorously named introduction to the Lightspace CMS display calibration software. (lightillusion.com)
- Create A Duotone Look In 2 Steps - "some of the more extreme color looks appear to be complicated to execute, but in reality are actually quite simple. The duotone look certainly falls into this category". (premiumbeat.com)
- [FCPX] Compositing: Screen Replacement Using TrackX - from MacBreak Studio. (youtube.com)
- ProRes 4444 vs
RAW - my response to this article: just because you can't tell the difference in the final color correct, doesn't mean there isn't a difference. But I generally agree about the appropriateness of ProRes 4444 vs. ProRes XQ (premiumbeat.com)
- New Features Coming to Adobe Media Encoder - "Headline features . . . include Destination Publishing to Facebook, expanded support for UHD formats, improved image sequence workflows, Automatic Loudness correction, and more" (provideocoalition.com)
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- Fandango's Online Movie Ratings - where a 3 is the new 0 and all movies are good. (fivethirtyeight.com)
- Is The YouTube Algorithm Becoming Too Predictable? - if you want to know how millennials use YouTube... this is a good introduction. For me? Eye opening. (reelseo.com)
- Vimeo's Original Productions - an update on how their recent original content has fared and what Vimeo hopes to gain from original content. (etcentric.org)
- DirecTV Launches First VR App - for boxing, "VR users can pick highlights and close-up camera feeds that were filmed by a five-camera set-up." But not while the events are live. (etcentric.org)
- SMPTE Webinar Summary: On HDR - a summary of a webinar talking about the strengths and weaknesses. (etcentric.org)
- The Future of SVOD - "North American pay TV providers recently experienced their worst quarter ever, losing nearly a half million subscribers. But where are these subs going for video services?"
This is summary from a recent Netflix earnings call about where they see their business going. (etcentric.org)
- On Resisting 4K Hype - "Unless you're looking to debut on streaming services or play in very large theatrical
venues, [indie film producer Bill] Macomber says 4K is little more than a buzzword." (studiodaily.com)
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- [video] Tales From The Grading Suite: Lighting The Looks - on the theory that most great color corrections start with the original lighting, "my moral of this Insight is the hardest part about grading is that we heavily rely on the footage that comes to us to create nice results!" (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Grading Breakdown Part 2: Solving Problems - continuing breaking down
a color correction project. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Adding Technical & Creative LUTs to the Lumetri Color Panel - how the
heck do you add LUTs you've created or purchased to the pull-down menu in Premiere's Lumetri Color Panel? It turns out, you'll chase your tail trying to figure it out. (mixinglight.com)
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- Editing Sicario - editor Joe Walker is riding a wave of success: 12 Years a Slave, Blackhat, and now Sicario. He talks about his post-production workflow and working with DP Roger Deakins. (thecredits.org)
- Apple Loses Patent Lawsuit - and now the damages need to be assessed. It's related to patents used in Apple's latest generation of iPhones. (reuters.com)
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- Premiere Pro World 2015 - including several color correction presentations from your humble Tao Newsletter Publisher. November 17 - 20. San Jose, CA. (adobevideoworld.com)
- SMPTE 2015 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition - Oct 26 to 29, Hollywood, CA (creativecow.net)
- New York Post | Production Conference CCW - November 11 to 12, New York, NY (magnetmail.net)
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- [video] Never Give Up! - need a brief lesson in persistence? Yes, it's a cat video. But it looks painful, which kind'a makes it funny. (youtube.com)
- Historical Photos As Colorful Whimsical Composites - fun. (mymodernmet.com)
- [video] Japan’s New Girl Band Has An Average Age Of 84 - this might more properly belong under 'A Step Too Far?'. (odditycentral.com)
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- [video] LCD Monitor Teardown - we here at the Tao love a good teardown. And this one is just so hypnotically fun to watch. Get a behind the scenes of an LCD monitor. (youtube.com)
- Nucoda 2015.2 and Kona 3 - it turns out the latest Kona
drivers no longer support the Kona 3. (liftgammagain.com/)
- Amazon’s 50TB ‘Snowball’ Drive - "quickly, inexpensively, and securely transfers large amounts of data into and out of AWS. It's big, rugged, and ugly as hell, but it's tamper and weather-resistant, stores up to 50TB, and can withstand a 6 G jolt." (nofilmschool.com)
- The ‘Late 2015’ iMac 5K Flash - howm much faster than before? (barefeats.com)
- FirmTek SeriTek/i6G Review - or how to build a fast 8TB drive? (barefeats.com)
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- Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill - and could this ultimately doom adoption of this technology. (technologyreview.com)
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- Former Google Employee Buys Google.com - but since he bought it through Google's domain name service, he only owned it for one minute. (9to5google.com)
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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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