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- Stuart Fyvie: Freelance Colorist - “A technique can often be used again because a project in the past used it. You should also never stop learning. It’s a constant process.” Freelance colorist Stuart Fyvie on where he finds his inspiration. (filmlight.ltd.uk)
- [video] Three Minutes with Colorist Peter Doyle - “what I have noticed is there are a lot more people involved in the color pipeline.” Peter Doyle (The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix) on the difference between film and video (youtube.com via Marc Wielage)
- Shooting Digital And Storytelling - “people want to work faster or show that they can use
less light, but they don’t look for the proper light the scene needs. That isn’t cinematography, that’s recording an image.” Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro warns of a ‘major problem’ in the field. (hollywoodreporter.com)
- [videos] Working in HDR - “We need to re-learn how to look at the image.” Colorist Walter Volpatto (San Andreas, Independence Day 2) on the general differences in how to shoot HDR and how to grade HDR. Each video is about 5 minutes long, from the CineTeck Geek podcast. (Part 1: HDR and ACES | Part 2: Codecs, RAW, LOG and HDR | Part 3: HDR Learning Curve | Part 4: HDR, P3, Rec.709) via Marc Wielage
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- DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Released - after close to three months of public beta testing Blackmagic Design’s professional editing and color correction software is now 'final'. Over
1,000 enhancements and 250 new features. (blackmagicdesign.com)
- Color Grading in Your DSLR - “ I’ve used colour grading in post, but I’ve also tried defining colour in camera, and I must say I am quite happy with some of the results.” (provideocoalition.com)
- [video] Saccone, Resolve, and Editing - “All of our keyboard shortcuts pretty much match Final Cut 7. So if you’re used to 7 - that’s the default.” Blackmagic Design’s Paul Saccone walks you through some of the editing features of DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Taped live at the May
2016 LACPUG Meetup. (youtube.com)
- Quantel Rio v4.0 - an all-new release of Quantel's 'high performance online editing, color and finishing for HD, UHD, 4K and 8K' that includes,
"re-designed user interface, new respeed options using SAM's world-leading Alchemist technology and tighter integration with Avid conforms including profile respeeds and history." Nice control surfaces. (s-a-m.com)
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- Video is King - “The study reports a 'significant increase' in the share of video traffic via mobile devices as viewers gradually change their viewing habits from traditional TV
to streaming content via tablets and smartphones.” A new report says video will account for 70% of all mobile traffic by 2021. (reelseo.com)
- [video] Lunch With Oliver Peters - the editor, producer and journalist, who
is frequently featured in this Newsletter, sat down with Philip Hodgetts and chatted about The Business. (philiphodgetts.com)
- Producer's Guild Urges Finishing In 4K and HDR - “When asked about the costs, [the PGA] reported that a recent six hours of programming resulted in an additional $300,000 for 4K finishing, and she asserted that it doesn't have to be a big difference if you plan ahead.” Oh yeah... no diff. (hollywoodreporter.com)
- Millennials Love Cinema - "While the study is
primarily aimed at advertisers, it also offers insights for studios and exhibitors". Some interesting stats in here, beyond the obvious. (celluloidjunkie.com)
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- [video] Dirty Looks: To Grain or Not to Grain - "for me as soon as the client requests a print style look I almost instinctively pull out my favourite film grain and
never look back. Unfortunately, one job went quite badly wrong because of this and it has made me rethink my need for grain on a project." (mixinglight.com)
- [video] How ‘Custom Offsets’ Dramatically Increase The Accuracy Of A
Colorimeter - in Part 2 of this series on using an X-Rite i1 Display Pro colorimeter, we explore how to dramatically improve its accuracy. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Getting to Know ACES: Part 3 - in this Insight, colorist Robbie Carman "[discusses] a couple more Resolve specific things about IDTs/ODTs and what’s happening in the background, the essentials of making a
hand-off to a VFX artist and what to do when you get files back from VFX in an ACES Workflow." (mixinglight.com)
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- Has Apple Lost Its Simplicity? - "Apple now sells three different iPhones, four different iPads and three different MacBooks. The Apple Watch comes in seemingly infinite combinations of sizes
and bands. The Apple universe is exploding with complexity! Or is it?" (kensegall.com)
- How Art Adams Learned Composition At Age 12 - "Two shows—a science fiction show for children and an existential series
for adults that explored the nature of the individual in modern society—were my dual inspirations." Includes a terrific breakdown of those two shows. (provideocoalition.com)
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- [workshop] Colorist Flight School LIVE!: DaVinci Resolve
12.5 Fundamentals - your Tao Newsletter Publisher is doing live 3-day workshops. I'll be teaching live in Orlando, but you can also attended, and get direct interaction with me, via an interactive 'connected classroom' in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Chicago, Irvine and Toronto. Classes limited to 15 total students. August 1, October 31. (fmctraining.com)
- [webinar] Advanced Color Correction with Baselight & Avid - "the PostWorks team will discuss their color correction
workflow, and demonstrate how Media Composer and the Baselight plug-in provides them with the advanced tools they need to handle any project quickly and efficiently. " June 15. (avid.com)
- [workshop] THX Certified Video Calibration Hands-On Workshops - in London, New Delhi, Singapore and Dallas. (thxvideotech.com)
- 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)
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- [video] Drone Star Wars - check out this short film that fans created using drones to simulate an X-wing TIE fighter chase sequence. (youtube.com) Then check out the behind the scenes video. (youtube.com)
- [video] It’s a Dog’s World - “Une petite faim?” translates to “feeling a bit hungry?” By the looks of this dog, he feels a bit hungry all the time. His owner caught it on tape - and does the narration. Wait for the
payoff at the end. Delicious. (youtube.com)
- The World’s Ugliest Color - "It took three months, seven studies, and more than 1000 regular smokers, but the researchers finally determined the most
offensive color to print alongside new graphic health warnings." (msn.com)
- Pied Piper: The Website - if you're a fan of HBO's Silicon Valley then you'll enjoy this new website that has launched with their Public Beta in last week's episode. (piedpiper.com)
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- JVC DLA-X7000 HDR Projector Review - "As always, the JVC’s trump card was unrivalled black level rendition – DILA projectors are essentially the OLED
equivalent in the projector world." Great results from a sub-$9,000 projector. (dtvtest.co.uk)
- [video] NAB 2016: AJA Brings SDI Over IP To The Kona Card - "The new AJA Kona card with a ST.2022 based SDI-over-IP
interfaces makes it as easy as plugging in a cat5e or fiber cable." (cinetechgeek.com)
- Film Editing With A Razer Naga Chroma - "once you’ve got your shortcuts set up in an efficient manner, you can edit a lot faster using the 19 programmable buttons the Naga has to offer, as you’re moving your hands a lot less. In fact, you’re mostly just moving your thumb!" (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 In The Mac Pro Tower - "Though the GTX 1080's advantage over the 980 Ti and TITAN
X is less pronounced, it is still faster than both while requiring much less power than either." (barefeats.com)
- Razer Core GPU Expander - "Could the Thunderbolt 3 connection be a bottleneck compared to the 16 lane PCIe slots of desktop computers like the Mac Pro tower?" Interesting. The benchmarks focused on gaming. (barefeats.com)
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- Petition: Create A Software-Only DaVinci Resolve Linux Version "there are at least two distros that deserve attention and would probably cover most Linux users in the
world. Those are Fedora and Ubuntu. You know Fedora well, since CentOS belongs to the same family." I tend to wear my Fedora, but if you compute with it then this petition may be for you. (change.org)
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- How To give A Robot A Job Review - "executives who can’t get their robots to do a better job may lose their own. Empowering smart machines to — pun intended — live up to
their potential may well become the essential new 21st-century leadership skill." Clearly, most of us haven't thought this far forward. (hbr.org)
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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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