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It's been a crazy week at Tao HQ... a classic run-up to the holiday season. It's probably the same with you, so I'll keep this short . . .
As I mentioned last week, over on MixingLight.com I've released my 2-part opus of DaVinci Resolve 12 training. To give you a taste, on YouTube you can watch nearly an hour of excerpts, including the ever-popular (and always in need in updating):
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Here's a link for a PDF of Table of Contents for the Fundamentals training. The Advanced training will deliver by the end of the year. This link is for the Outline of the Advanced title from the studio shoot, so you can see what to expect.
And now, back to your regularly scheduled Newsletter! We'll see you next week.
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- Meet the Colorist - Filmlight continues their profile of colorists with Toronto-based Cem Ozkilicci. He learned his craft the traditional way: telecine first, and then color grading and has not looked back
since. (filmlight.ltd.uk)
- Why I’m Leaving the Color Grading Business - longtime friend of the Tao, Tom Parish, sees the clock on the wall and decides it is time to shut down his color suite for good. Tom is walking away
from the business he loves. Why? Click through to find out. We wish Tom well. (tomparish.com)
- [video] Sculpting Anomalisa - Carol Koch loves her craft. She turns sketches and director's’ notes into finished designs - like in the stop motion animated film, ‘Anomalisa.’ Fun to
watch a craftsman at work. (youtube.com)
- [video] The Depth of Simplicity - it has been more than 50 years since Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu passed away, but his influence grows. Here's a look. (youtube.com)
- Color Grading Insights - an interview with a good friend
of the Tao, colorist and director Alexis Van Hurkman. (premiumbeat.com)
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- Extracting DaVinci Resolve Reel Names - pulling proper reel names can be a challenge in Resolve, this post shows you some of the extraction patterns that can help you properly populate the Reels field. (blogs.creativecow.net)
- Stocking Stuffers 2015 #1 - each year at this time, editor Oliver Peters puts together a list of items that an editor might like to receive as a present. Some are free. Some are not. And some,
are for the editor/colorist. (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- Stocking Stuffers 2015 #2 - joining in the holiday fun, UK-based editor Jonny Elwyn rounds out gift giving ideas with some things not found on Oliver’s list. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- Adobe Speedgrade CC 2015 Manual - users of SpeedGrade were surprised to see an official Adobe Speedgrade CC Reference Manual pop up on the Help portion of its website. You'll find it at this link under the column 'Help PDFs' (helpx.adobe.com)
- Color Finesse 3 and Test Gear 2.5 Updated for Creative Suite CC 2015 - including the most recent November updates of Premiere Pro and After Effects. (toolfarm.com)
- [video] SkyBox Studio: Adding Effects on 360º and VR Footage - also on the blog are several other tutorials on using this plug-in in After Effects.
(toolfarm.com)
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- Vimeo, 4K & ABR - In Q1 2016 Vimeo will support 4K for everyone and introduce adaptive bitrate streaming on certain platforms. (redsharknews.com)
- Expocine Was Bigger and Better In 2015 - an interesting overview of South America's newest cinema operator and distribution trade show. (celluloidjunkie.com)
- LG Display Make Major Investment In Next-Generation OLED Panels - $1 Billion in a new factory. Good news for OLED supporters. (displaydaily.com)
- Amazon Studios & Amazon Storywriter - Amazon seems to have ended its experiment with free script options
and now taking scripts from the Writers Guild. Plus, they've launched a free online script writing tool. (variety.com)
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The stories featured in this section are from MixingLight.com, a
companion color correction membership website to TaoOfColor.com and paid sponsor of this Newsletter. Want to read a story listed here but not a member? Sign up for a free 24-hour Test Drive. - [video] Optimizing X-Keys To Speed Up Your Control Surface - how to become more efficient with your colorist control surface with the X-Keys add-on by
targeting the functions you map to it. (mixinglight.com)
- [podcast] Creating A ‘Glossy’ Look + Grading With A Color Palette - Team Mixinglight analyses different commercials and explains what goes into creating a 'glossy' commercial look. Then, the Team discusses how to create color palettes
in your images. (mixinglight.com)
- Christmas Clean Up - Refresh Your System - it takes both a virtual and physical clean-up for a strong start to 2016. Follow this checklist and see what could be done in your own suite. (mixinglight.com)
- [podcast] HDR Essentials: What’s HDR? - what is HDR, the gear involved, and the current standards? Plus two audio discussions with industry experts Bram Desmet and Juan Salvo to get you up-to-date on High-Dynamic-Range workflows. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Look Inspiration: Cold Commercial Look - using footage to create a Warm Look, learn how to create a moody Cold Look and see how different looks can make a shot feel very different: from normal to warm/cosy, to nasty/grungy. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Magic Bullet Looks 3: An Overview - continuing a long-running series on color grading in FCPX, get an overview at this Look-creation toolkit from the perspective of a professional colorist. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] HDR Essentials: Getting Set Up In DaVinci Resolve - "The basic workflow with HDR grading in Resolve 12 is to use Resolve Color Management (RCM). Using RCM, the proper mathematical transforms for input / timeline and output colorspaces are applied. I’ll show this setup in the movie
below, but the nice thing about using RCM is that you can simply choose an ST. 2084 option based on your monitor’s capabilities – 500 nits, 1000 nits, etc." Click through to start getting familiar with the language of HDR. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Selecting A Color Correction Plug-In For
FCPX - a year-long series on color grading in FCPX wraps up with the answer to the question: What's the best color correction plug-in you can buy for FCPX? (mixinglight.com)
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- Pantone Colors of 2016: Two of Them - "For the first time, the blending of two shades...are chosen as the PANTONE Color of the Year...Rose Quartz and Serenity demonstrate an inherent balance between a warmer embracing rose tone and the cooler tranquil blue". Ummm. So. A muted version of Teal & Blue? How original. (pantone.com)
- Apple Watch Hits Swiss Watch Industry Hard - watchmakers suffer their biggest slump in six years. (9to5mac.com)
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- [video] Zombies, Movies & TV - for more than 80 years Hollywood’s love affair with zombies has evolved to fit the anxieties of the times we live in. Spend 3 minutes watching a trend that refuses to die beginning with 1932’s White Zombie up to 2015’s iZombie - and body parts in-between. (youtube.com)
- [video] Master of Suspense - director Alfred Hitchcock gets his first starring role in a bloody film noir. It’s a mashup of 30 of his greatest movies. And it wouldn’t be a Hitchcock movie without the music of the great Bernard Hermann. Fun stuff. (vimeo.com)
- [video] O Star Wars, Where Art Thou? - imagine the music of John Williams meets the music of O Brother, Where Art Thou. Yup. Star Wars goes
bluegrass, y’all. May the music be with you. Fun. (youtube.com)
- [videos] Miniature Meals Taking Over YouTube In Japan - "no one is quite sure how this phenomenon started, but many people look toward the YouTube channel Miniature Space, which is the perfect embodiment of Kawaii cooking (Kawaii means ‘cute’ in Japanese). It doesn’t hurt that there are over 460,000 subscribers to the channel, with
some videos having been viewed nearly 4 million times." (weirdasianews.com)
- Company Bottles The Scent Of A Cat’s Forehead - "Experts spent four months sniffing feline heads at cat cafes, finally developing a product
that captured the essence perfectly." Funny or foolish? Fun or funny? Not sure. The cat has our tongue. (odditycentral.com)
- What Does It Take To Become Best In Show?
- because Tao HQ needs to give equal time to canines. (atlasobscura.com)
- From Gift-Giving Koalas To Surfing Santa - how Christmas imagery get Austrailianized. Cute. (atlasobscura.com)
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- We Pick 2015s Top Top TVs For The Holidays - "Listed below are some of the TV models from each bracket that we felt had the best features, delivered the best pictures and sound and, importantly, offer you the best build quality in the hope that you won’t be shopping for a replacement unit anytime soon." (hdguru.com)
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- [video] Slap Her - what happens when you put a boy in front of a girl and ask him to slap her? That’s the central question of this Italian PSA about domestic violence. 35 million people watched to find out, making it one of the top 10 most watched commercials on YouTube in 2015. Watch to the end for the payoff. (youtube.com)
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- [video] Nick Offerman's Yule Log Fireplace - if you’d like to chill with actor Nick Offerman here’s your chance. For 45 Minutes Nick doesn’t say a word. Just sits enjoying a glass of Lagavulin Single Malt Scotch by a warm fire. Sometimes he drinks. Sometimes he crosses his legs. Mostly, he sits. Perfect for your new TV on Christmas night. (youtube.com)
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- [videos] Breadface - why is this girl smushing her face into different types of bread? She writes ‘giving the people something they didn’t ask for.’ Seems logical. Then again, around the Tao publishing offices we call this the path of ‘yeast’ resistance. Bizzarro. (instagram.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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