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- 1950s Color Inspiration - if you’re looking for color inspiration for a 1950s-based project search no further. These photos of circus life are pure Americana. Brilliant colors, deep blue saturation, and blue in the
shadows. (flashbak.com)
- Five things a Colorist would like to say to a DP - “As a colorist, I truly want to make you – the DoP – happy. But the person signing the check is ultimately in charge. “ Terence Curren on the five key things he feels a
colorist would like to say to a DP. (redsharknews.com)
- [forum] Why Is There So Little Standardization Amongst Camera Brands and Color Science? - or... why what
we do isn't science and individual judgement plays a role. (liftgammagain.com)
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- [video] Resolve: Rotoscoping In Under 5 Minutes - colorist Alexis Van Hurkman shows you how to rotoscope in Resolve using automatic keyframes. This feature has evolved in recent updates and is recommended
for all Resolve users.(youtube.com)
- [videos] DaVinci Resolve v12.5 Roundup - film editor
Jonny Elwyn has put together a round up. There's good stuff in there - but plan on several sittings. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- Resolve: The Usage Tab - "Removing unused clips from a large media pool makes
any DaVinci Resolve project easier to manage, but how do you know what’s being used and what isn’t?" (premiumbeat.com)
- [video] To Transcode? Or Not To Transcode? - do you get better results by transcoding your 8-bit camera originals to a 10-bit codec prior to color grading. Of course, the answer is no. Here are just a few reasons why. (provideocoalition.com)
- Easy 4K Workflows - from native workflows to proxy workflows, as distributors start asking for 4K files you're going to need to start about your 4K pipline. (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- Final Cut Pro X Library Sharing In A Multi-User Environment - "objective: Make incremental one-way sync
updates of a user’s Library that other users on the same shared environment can access." (fcp.co)
- [video] Getting Started With Sapphire Builder - this is a YouTube playlist that gets
you started with Sapphire 8 and teaches you how to use Sapphire Builder. (youtube.com)
- [video] Webinar Replay: BCC 10 & Mocha Pro 5 Plug-in - covers all the major host softwares. (borisfx.com)
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- Steven Soderbergh‘s State of the Cinema - “Now, I’m going to attempt to show how a certain kind of rodent might be smarter than a studio when it comes to picking projects.” The famed director’s keynote
speech to the San Francisco International Film Festival. He asked the festival to ban still photographs, audio, or video of his talk. Yeah, that didn’t happen. (deadline.com)
- [video] CEO Secrets - “a democracy in a company creates
mediocrity.” Nolan Bushnell, founder of the Atari computer company, reveals the business advice he gave Steve Jobs. And in 67 seconds has more advice for building and running your company. (bbc.com)
- Creating An Awesome Showreel - not specific to the colorist, but a general overview of some of the top
tips for creating a showreel. (freelancevideocollective.co.uk)
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member? Sign up for a free 24-hour Test Drive. - Colorist Inspiration: What Makes A Good Colorist? - "As soon as I conform the project and [we] sit down, things will probably end up being totally different from what I expected." (mixinglight.com)
- [video] 12 New Reasons To Consider Upgrading To Resolve Studio - part 2 in a series about how Blackmagic is changing their strategy and enticing users to upgrade to the paid version of DaVinci Resolve—by offering compelling Studio-only features. This video is free to non-members. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Colorist Inspiration: The Challenge - colorist Dan Moran shows you how he quickly iterates ideas before settling down on an approach... and challenges you to follow in his footsteps. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Display Profiling 101: Series Overview - your humble Newsletter Publisher is starting a multi-part series designed to teach you how to answer the question, "Is my color correction display out of whack?" (mixinglight.com)
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- Busting The Myth of Transcoding - “The Myth we’re busting: Transcoding your 8-bit source material to 10-bit will magically make it more robust, so you can do heavy color grading in Premiere with better
results.” It's a good myth to bust. (provideocoalition.com)
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- Q&A with Colorist Alexis Van Hurkman - the first of live tech talks from the Blue Collar Post Collective on Facebook. May 19. (facebook.com)
- Seminar: The Merits of High Dynamic Range - "a one hour seminar that takes a look at the HDR production chain, followed by a Q&A" with Dado Valentic. May 17, Burbank, California, AbelCine. (training.abelcine.com)
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- [video] Fly Lufthansa - under the assumption that everyone is a little prejudiced Lufthansa produced a fun commercial that tackles some of the funnier anti-German stereotypes and then bucks them. (youtube.com)
- [video] My Life in Technicolor - in a nod to Richard Linklater’s film ‘Boyhood’ one young man spent five years making a music video. It’s made up of him singing the same song over the course of five years. So you can listen to the song and watch him age five years. (youtube.com)
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- Faster Than a Titan X At Half the Price - “This staggering GPU performance comes at a cost and your current 16 lane CPU motherboard may not be quite up to the challenge.”
Gearheads are talking about the awesomeness of the new GTX 1080 video card. (redsharknews.com)
- HP ZBook Studio G3 Laptop - with Apple about to launch an update to their Macbook Pro line it might be worth to compare features and speed with HP’s newest ZBook. (provideocoalition.com)
- 4K Blu-Ray vs Blu-Ray Reveals HDR Is Too Dim for Daytime - "we were experimenting with introducing ambient lighting to see if we could better mask the backlight inconsistencies and local dimming issues in HDR mode on the LED LCD televisions we were testing"... and they found out that HDR has nothing to do with overall brightening of
the picture—at least, not yet. (hdtvtest.co.uk)
- LG TVs Recommended By Netflix For Second Straight Year - "you can turn on your TV and start watching Netflix faster than on any other model on the market today"... and that's what it takes to win the Netflix recommendation. (displaydaily.com)
- First Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 3DMark Benchmarks - like the headline says. (videocardz.com)
- Nvidia’s GTX 1080: The Tip Of The Iceberg? - "The Nvidia GTX 1080 might be the final nail in [the MacPro] coffin. I can guarantee at this point, we will have to move to a Windows-based workstation for our main edit suite and one that
supports multiple PCIe slots, specifically for the GTX 1080." A-yup. (onerivermedia.com)
- Opinion: MacBook Pro Owners, It’s Time To Consider A 4K Display - "Why should you consider a 4K display instead of a cheaper monitor with lesser resolution? It all boils down to clarity." (9to5mac.com)
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- [video] IKEA Bed Commercial - you might notice that this TVC was made in 2014. It’s in the showcase to see how a grade holds up over time. (vimeo.com) And check out the making of video. Good fun. (vimeo.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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