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The Tao Staff wishes you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Healthy New Year
As is our tradition, we take holiday weekends to spend with our friends and family, so there's no Newsletter next Sunday.
On New Year's weekend we'll have the Most Popular Stories of 2015. And then the following Sunday you'll have an all-new edition—when we're all back at work.
It's been a real pleasure serving you in 2015, our dear Tao Newsletter reader
Thank you for all support throughout the year. We'll see you in two
weeks, rested, ready and roaring to meet 2016 head-on.
Sincerely,
Pat, Jim and the Tao Treasurer
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- Deakins, Film, & Digital - the famous D.P. says he doesn’t give a flip about the film vs digital debate: “There's too much obsession these days about digital film...it's becoming so
technically-orientated.” Some interesting quotes in here. (indiewire.com)
- [video] Saving the Apu Trilogy - this great video (about restoring a classic film destroyed by a fire) redefines the craft of 'film restoration'.
Watch as a classic film is physically restored, sprocket-by-sprocket, before it's digitally restored, frame-by-frame. (youtube.com)
- 40 Facts About Your Eyes - how many of these did you know? (brightside.me via Tom Parish)
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- Christmas Gift Ideas for Editors: 2015 Edition - editor Scott Simmons continues an annual tradition for the 6th year in a row: a list of gifts for post-production pros. (provideocoalition.com)
- [Resolve] 3 Tips for Real-Time Performance - a pithy post listing features that'll help you maintain full frame-rate playback.. (cinema5d.com)
- [forum] DaVinci Resolve Studio: Now $499 at the Mac App Store - half the price of buying the USB dongle, but it won't work on a PC and only on those Macs where you have your App Store account active. (liftgammagain.com)
- [review] Lattice: 3D LUT Management Software - "one should think of Lattice as a
kind of LUT Swiss Army knife to manage and conform a wide array of color spaces, transfer functions, and profiles." (studiodaily.com)
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- Why Creative People Are Mostly Likely To Be Dishonest - "creative thinkers are better at rationalizing dishonesty than uncreative thinkers". No kidding. Welcome to 'The Business'. (hbr.org)
- Are Cheap Chinese Christmas Lights Killing Your WiFi? - it might explain the WiFi slowdown holiday blues. (stopthecap.com)
- Netflix Adopts New Streaming Plan - they're creating custom compression algorithms based on the content of the movie. Kind'a cool. (etcentric.org)
- AMC, Regal Debut Mobile Apps To Pre-Order Popcorn, Drinks - oh joy. Extra stale, extra flat. Yum... (etcentric.org)
- New Drone Registration Rules - as we mentioned a week or two ago, the 'drone problem' is now solved; the Feds are creating a voluntary database! (studiodaily.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. - [podcast] Edge Sharpening + Denoising Workflow - Part 1 discusses
how to isolate and sharpen edge details. Part 2: should the noise reduction be at the start, middle, or the end of the grade? (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Look Inspiration: ENR Processed Look - a breakdown of how one colorist achieves the Bleach Bypass Look, made famous by Saving Private Ryan. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Part 1: Why Has It Been Difficult To Color Correct In Premiere Pro? - in a new series on color correcting in Premiere Pro, your Tao Colorist Newsletter publisher shows what makes it confusing to work with Premiere's 'legacy' plug-ins. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Part 2: How Premiere Pro's Legacy Color Correction Filters Break Your Images - from confusing to damaging; in Part 2 learn how (not including the new Lumetri Color panel) Premiere's color correction tools damage your images. (mixinglight.com)
- [videos] Colorist Inspiration: Dan’s Best Of 2015 - colorist Dan Moran shares his professional highlights of the year, and breaks down a few of his color grades. (mixinglight.com)
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- Free Film Grain and Light Leaks - editor Jonny Elwyn has a nice roundup of film grain and light leaks for your next project. And yes, they’re free. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- Camera Comparison Chart - in the rapidly changing camera landscape this is good information to have. Compiled with the help of cinematographers, colorists, and manufacturers. The link to the large version of the comparison chart is found at the bottom of the post. (linkedin.com)
- [video] The History and Science of Lenses - Filmmaker IQ continues their excellent video series with one on the camera lens. Dive into the history of the lens from its early beginning as a fire starting tool to the superabundance of modern designs.
(youtube.com)
- Paris In Color 100 Years Ago - in 1909 a French banker hired 4 photographers to create a photographic record of the world using a new process called, 'color photography'. (petapixel.com)
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- [video] Trailer: Star Trek Beyond - jonesing for a the sci-fi cult film series that starts with 'Star'? Wait no longer with this taste of the next Star Trek film. (studiodaily.com)
- [video] John Oliver’s Holiday Re-Gifting Tips - the unstated rules of regifting... stated. (rollingstone.com)
- Using Decoy Packages To Confuse Thieves - and frustrate them out of a life of crime. Well, it's a plan. (odditycentral.com)
- Advertising Placements Fails - sophomoric humor. (orzzzz.com)
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- [review] AKiTiO Thunder2 Quad Mini - fast and portable media accessibility. 4x1TB SSD + Thunderbolt 2 (plus, an extra port for the video projection) = a super fast for 4K. (provideocoalition.com)
- [Review] LG 65EF9500 Flat-Screen OLED TV - "not only offering a flat-screen version of the previous curved-screen EG9600 series sets . . . screen uniformity is better (not perfect) and the picture is brighter, which is a plus for the TV’s ability to handle high dynamic range" (hdguru.com)
- [video] At The Bench: Teradek COLR - "This compact system can take in HD-SDI or HDMI and output a video signal with a Look Up Table (LUT) applied. COLR can work both wired (via Ethernet) and wirelessly, as it has a built in Wi-Fi access point." And
the features don't end there. (blog.abelcine.com)
- External NVidia Titan X for Mac Pro ‘Cylinder’ - "a hack that enables a Thunderbolt 2 expansion box with an NVIDIA TITAN X GPU to override the Mac Pro cylinder's AMD GPUs." (barefeats.com)
- Mac Software v12.3.8 Released For Current AJA Products - link is to the software download section of their website. (aja.com)
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- [video] Your Brother’s Keeper - raise a glass to a couple of film students in Germany who created this TVC spec ad for Johnnie Walker. The commercial explores the concept of ‘my brother’s keeper’ and delivers a big punch. Watch to the end for the payoff. (youtube.com)
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- [video] Morning Commute - a Scottish cyclist takes fear of heights to new levels with a GoPro helmet and a drone to capture his death-defying ride along the rooftops of Gran Canaria, an island in Spain's Canary Islands. Watch until the very end. It’s worth it. (youtube.com)
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- Even Apple Doesn't Want To Use FCPX - there are some who love FCPx - and others who don’t. But the Apple mothership? Check out this job posting for an Assistant Editor at Apple. Under experience, guess what app is missing from the list of software the candidate should have experience with? Draw your own conclusions. (theverge.com)
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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next year! Happy Grading! 9,150'ish Stories Now Shared
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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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