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- Meet the Colorist - “There’s more to the job than just making the picture look pretty. Client management and running the room confidently is such a large part of the job.” Colorist Mark Todd Osborne on how to break into the big leagues. (premiumbeat.com)
- 'Deadpool' 4K HDR Demo - “The Ultra HD offers deeper black levels, more vivid colors (hello, red!), and oodles of added highlight and CGI detail.” Director Tim Miller and Colorist Tim Stipan talk HDR and color workflow. (highdefdigest.com)
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- [video] Faster Resolve Editing Using Optimized Media - “All of the editing tools and everything are really good. Really well thought out interface. Everything is awesome, except
it just doesn’t play stuff back real well.” A brief tutorial on optimizing media in Resolve 12.5 for more responsive editing. (youtube.com)
- How to Be A DIT: The Jellyfish Edition - “...it revolutionises what can be done on set in the DIT world. Ingest has never been
faster on set. It’s a complete game changer if you’re interested in on set post and dailies creation.” UK-based editor Jonny Elwyn goes super in-depth on Lumaforge’s Jellyfish shared storage. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- Color Space Transform Workflow - A brief overview of the new Color Space Transform FX plugin in Resolve 12.5 - which is like a LUT but without the drawbacks. (redsharknews.com)
- Tangent Ripple Review - “Where the
Wave (and the Element for that matter) has a lot of dials, buttons and screens the Ripple has virtually none of that.” Is the $500 Ripple right for you? Read on to find out. (provideocoalition.com)
- Adobe Discards Metadata When Processing RAW FIles - "Take a look at the data that is stripped out of a RAW file, or a camera-generated JPG file that hasn’t been touched by an editing program. This is a sample of what gets destroyed." (petapixel.com via
Ken Cooper)
- [video] Frame.io Available for iOS - I
often suggest to my clients that they view our work on a full sized iPad, since that device tends to be closest to Rec 709. Now, your clients can use the Frame.IO review and approve app, natively on iOS. (vimeo.com via Jason Diamond)
- A Chat with Blackmagic About Resolve
12.5 - Bob Caniglia offers his thoughts on some of the new features in Resolve 12.5 and where the software is going. (nofilmschool.com)
- Testing Automatic Duck’s Xsend Motion - sending projects and sequences from FCPx to Motion. How is it that Apple never did this? (fcp.co)
- [video] NAB 2016: BlackMagic Resolve 12.5 & HDR - an interview with Blackmagic about their HDR support. (cinetechgeek.com)
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- Dolby Q2 Results Offer Updates On Atmos, Vision Adoption - "There are also more than 20 Dolby Cinema locations open and another 200 Dolby Cinema locations are planned for roll
out around the world." More details at the link. (devoncroft.com)
- HDR Support Comes To 2016 Mid and Entry AVR Lines - "High performance networked AV receivers compatible with the latest 4K
Ultra and HDR video signals and Dolby Atmos and DTS:X object-based audio formats were unveiled this month in the more mainstream 2016 product lines from Denon, Marantz, Onkyo and Pioneer." (hdguru.com)
- [podcast] The Terence and Philip Show: NAB 2016 Summary & Impressions - from HDR to Lytro to Resolve to Apple's NDA'ed FCPX demo. (theterenceandphilipshow.com)
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- [video] Evaluating Display Profile Reports In Lightspace DPS, Part 2 - reading the graphs and figuring out where we went wrong in Part 1. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Dirty Looks: Extreme Warmth - "This insight is both about why warm doesn’t always
work and my approach to adding crazy levels of warmth to a shot." (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Getting To Know ACES Part 2: Terminology - "I want to cover a few more ACES Terms and things that I realize I left out of Part 1 or wanted to go into a bit more detail, and then in a video I want to jump into setting up ACES in DaVinci Resolve." (mixinglight.com)
- From The Grading Room: Wonderful Life - breaking down a grading job in a
chat with colorist Jean-Clément Soret. (mixinglight.com)
- Optimizing i1 Display Pro OEM For Lightspace, Part 1 - "optimizing these settings won’t get you results you can use for a full-blown calibration… but you will get results you can save and revisit as a baseline comparison in future Profiles to measure how your display is drifting" and if it's time to recalibrate. (mixinglight.com)
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- [video] Using VR to solve Rubik’s Cube - a university student uses OpenCV library for image processing to create a program that uses VR to solve Rubik’s Cube in 20 moves or
less. (popsci.com)
- [video] 4 Different Clamps For Film Sets and How To Use
Them - "we’re going to take a look at the four main types. We’ll also cover where, when, and how you would use them on set." (premiumbeat.com)
- A Response To The New
Yorker’s Article On VR - Art Adams responds to a New Yorker article that claimed VR is a transformative medium. (provideocoalition.com)
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- Practical Aspects Of HDR: Implementation and Deployment - "The central topic is the implementation and deployment of HDR in cinema and video. In particular, we’ll discuss metadata and its interpretation, and adaptation of the HDR system to varying display and viewing characteristics." Plus lots more. Heythrop Park Resort,
Oxfordshire, UK, July 12 (poynton.com)
- Sight, Sound & Story 2016: Post-Production Summit -
"Panels include the art and processes of editing documentary film and episodic television, and behind the green screen with VFX artists." (eventbrite.com)
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- Telecine Humor - “a new TIG transport has been spotted on the highway. No doubt it’s on the way to the next major trade show, in order to spotlight all things TIG.”
Click through for the joke. (tig.colorist.org via Andrew Wideroe)
- [video] Photorealistic ‘Game of Thrones’ Pancakes - yummy. (gizmodo.com)
- Game Of Thrones-Inspired Barware - something to hold your Beer while you enjoy the Pancakes. (touchofmodern.com)
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- Technicolor Certifies BenQ Monitor - "when a monitor is Technicolor Color Certified, like the BenQ PV270 just was, it is able to work as a high-end
display for advanced cinematic and video post-production… according to Technicolor." A review of the PV270. (provideocoalition.com)
- [forum] The Future of Mac Pro? - " It's been 888 days since the last time the MacPro was updated. Making it the longest serving configuration in the history of the line." That, and more, in this discussion thread as our industry is lifting itself out of denial. (liftgammagain.com)
- New LTO-7 Archiving Gear From ProMax, Storage DNA, XenData - like the headline says.
(studiodaily.com)
- Wi-Fi WFM: Wireless Video Signal Monitoring - turn your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch into a wireless monitor / vectorscope / histogram, using a Teradek Cube, Clip or VidiU transmitter as the video source. (adamwilt.com)
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- [video] Game Called On Account of The Big Guy - to paraphrase the old joke, “where does an 800 pound alligator sit? Anywhere it wants to.” And if said gator interrupts your
golf game? Let it. Don’t argue. And, as they say in TV-land, ‘let’s go to the tape.’ (youtube.com)
- Is the Alligator Real? - is it a true video/story? Details here. (politifact.com)
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- Saving The Phone Zombies - “Fed up with pedestrians who can't take their eyes off the screen, the government is obliged nevertheless to try and save their lives.” New
in-ground traffic lights will be tested in Australia to help smartphone users who are so engaged with their devices they don’t always watch where they’re going, even when crossing the street. (mashable.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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