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- Grading Insights: From Your Publisher - your Tao Newsletter Publisher is interviewed by Premium Beat. Pat discusses his color grading process and how new colorists can jump into
the color industry—and the biggest challenge they'll face. (premiumbeat.com)
- Meet the Colorist - Flimlight continues its series of colorist profiles. Senem Pehlivan Yagan of Istanbul is featured. (filmlight.ltd.uk)
- Color Mixing: The Importance of Using a Color Chart - this is a pithy blog post aimed at painters but with good crossover information for colorists. (artistsnetwork.com)
- Twitter QA: The Magic Lamp - a talented (and frequent source for this Newsletter) photographer gets asked to critique a portrait. It's a great insight into a talented photographer's eye. (strobist.blogspot.com)
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- Making Color Grading Easy Using Color Palettes - a Photoshop technique using a plug-in that seems like a good cross-over technique for colorists based around Luma keys. (fstoppers.com)
- Sale: Sorenson Squeeze 10 - I used to live in this app. It seemed every project had to be run through it. If you're still using it, buy now for some savings. (toolfarm.com)
- [video] Zacuto Gratical: A Closer Look - "I show how to calibrate the viewfinder and how to best use the waveform and vectorscope tools . . . In addition, I explain how to set up user buttons to maximize the use of these exposure tools
in order to judge exposure based on a post-LUT and Log image." For our on-set readers. (blog.abelcine.com)
- Achieving A Super 16mm Look - when shooting
digitally. Good tips, most of which start before post-production. (premiumbeat.com)
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- Netflix's Big Crackdown on VPNs - "the real question isn’t whether Netflix is available in 190 countries. The question is when all 190 countries will get the same Netflix." Netflix is trying to create what Region Codes do for DVDs... and the first step? (wired.com)
- The Most Doomed Film in Hollywood - 80 years after it first began production, The White Rajah is still ‘in production.’ Why? Better yet, who’s still alive from the pre-production meetings? (historybuff.com)
- Nielson Adds Social Media, Instagram - they've devised the "Social Content Ratings that will measure aggregate-level chatter
related to TV shows in posts shared with friends, family, followers and the public." (etcentric.org)
- OLED Reaches An
Inflection Point At CES - a roundup of CES OLED trends with a historical perspective of why OLED has struggled to 'break through'. (displaydaily.com)
- HDR and Wide Color Gamut to Become Mainstream -
"nearly every UHD TV in 2016 will support some the basic HDR-10 level of HDR. Most will have HDMI 2.0a connectors to be able to read static metadata, which is part of HDR-10." And more... (displaydaily.com)
- Five Things the Industry Needs to Know About VR - "VR is potentially a killer app for the TV industry — but it's way too early to say for sure what real opportunities it presents." A 90-minute webinar is distilled to 5 take-aways. (studiodaily.com)
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- Photographic Time Tunnel - the New York Public Library recently released more than 187,000 photos into the public domain. Starting in the 11th Century up to now. It's a massive image dump. They include Stereoscopic views, prints, menus,
engravings, photographs and more. (publicdomain.nypl.org)
- Panasonic Launches Web-Based VariCam Menu Simulators - so you can practice off-set and be the guru on-set. (studiodaily.com)
- Keep Calm: Final Update on FAA sUAV / Drone Rules - "Well, if you ask the FAA, you can basically do anything you want within the guidelines as long as you fly safely and don't fly for payment or commercial purposes." Apparently, flying
for money is evil or un-American or something. No one really knows. (provideocoalition.com)
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- [video] BTS: First Feature Shot Entirely with Prius Backup Camera - this spoof had me laughing out loud. So ridiculous some YouTube commenters are wondering if they're serious. I just wonder if there's a Magic Latern hack for the higher quality 6-bit direct-off-sensor-to-ProResHQ recording? (youtu.be)
- [video] Timelapse of the 70mm Showing of The Hateful 8 - love it or hate it, part of the reason “The Hateful 8” is such a big deal is that it was filmed on 70MM film. One of the projectionists shot a timelapse of the movie in action in
the projection booth. Kickin’ it old school & super-fun. (vimeo.com)
- Working On My Show This Season - we can relate. We’ve all had days - or shows - like this. (renderplease.com)
- [video] Go Bag - the latest short from Team Red Giant. Well done. At the end it links to the very good Behind The Scenes video. (prolost.com)
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- [review] Sony VPL-VW520ES 4K HDR Projector - "Regardless of what some quarters would like you to believe, no projector featuring pseudo-4K pixel-shifting technology currently available to buy on the market could match let alone surpass the Sony 4K models in outright detail and sharpness." But when it comes to HDR, there are some challenges.
(hdtvtest.co.uk)
- [review] Angelbird SSD wrk for Mac with Native TRIM Support - "There are many great choices for third party 6Gbps SSDs these days. However, none of them have native Mac TRIM support -- except the Angelbird SSD wrk for Mac. We decided
to benchmark it inside our 2010 Mac Pro tower." (barefeats.com)
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- [video] Stopping Time - the man who taught David Bowie how to move is still teaching and dancing, kind'a. Editor/Colorist Steve Atkins honors the life of dancer Lindsay Kemp with a consistent grade that supports this day in the life of the 77-year-old dancer. (vimeo.com)
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- Smart Light Bulbs: Play Music, Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal, and More - "in the last few months, though, some even brighter ideas in light bulbs have heated up. Here’s what you have to look forward (or upward) to..." (yahoo.com)
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- [video] Washing Machine Brick Bouncing On Trampoline - that's both the title of this video and its logline. (youtube.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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