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- Gamma V-Log: Tonal-Scale Rendering - a quick demo of the difference between gamma and log encoding. “It’s a handy party trick, but don’t get hung up on it; for the purpose of this demo, just
observe how the waveforms evolve as exposure changes.” (provideocoalition.com)
- Pro Insights From Colorist Colin Travers, C.S.I. - "dealing with a lot of different personalities over the years, I’ve learned to deal with the room, whose voice to listen to and how to roll with the punches." Colin is the freelance colorist I sent my local clients to when I moved out of NYC. Good guy.
Good read. (premiumbeat.com)
- What Exactly is Rec 709? - a primer on the HD color space. Unfortunately, you'll need to ignore the section on display gamma, since Rec 709 does NOT specify display gamma... as noted in the comments, which include good explanations of the facts. Red Shark needs to update that article. (redsharknews.com)
- [video] The Surprising Upside Of Procrastination In Film Editing - "you call it procrastination I call it thinking." After pondering we think this works for colorists but we need more time to reflect upon it. (library.creativecow.net)
- The Mysterious Syndrome Impairing Astronauts’ Vision - "Phillips’s case became the first widely recognized one of a mysterious syndrome that affects 80 percent of astronauts on long- duration missions in space. The syndrome could interfere with plans for
future crewed space missions, including any trips to Mars." (washingtonpost.com)
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- Clarity About DaVinci Resolve System Requirements – “the point is not to call you out about your hardware, but to help you understand there are some minimum requirements if you want to get
the most out of Resolve.” Colorist Richard Lackey, CSI, does a reality check on what it takes to get the most out of running DaVinci Resolve. And he does a darn fine job answering the Comments. (dcinema.me)
- FujiFilm’s Color Space Converter in Beta - "even if you are not a
current IS-mini user, you will be able to export necessary LUTs for use in other software platforms. We invite you to please try the application and send us your comments and requests." (fujifilm.com)
- Editing 3D 4K Raw For The Forever
Project In FCPx - "this story will take you behind the scenes of an impressive and very worthy virtual reality project that is unique in the world" that was 2 years in the making. (fcp.co)
- Adobe’s Summer 2016 Refresh - "since this is not
a new, across-the-board Creative Cloud version update, the applications keep the CC 2015 moniker . . . Let me dive into what’s new in Premiere Pro, Audition, Adobe Media Encoder and After Effects." (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- Update: Pomfort Silverstack 5.3 - "Silverstack v5.3 is a minor
upgrade with extended transfer of metadata to DaVinci Resolve, loading and saving of ASC-CDLs, advanced support for additional image sequence formats and new grading functionalities." (toolfarm.com)
- FilmConvert Updates Camera
Profiles - "this release adds the URSA Mini 4.6k, along with the Sony FS5 and a6300, keeping the line current with some popular new cameras. There is a free trial available on their site, and the plugin works with Adobe, Resolve, Avid, FCP X/7, and as a standalone app." (nofilmschool.com)
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- Paramount Sale? - "on Friday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese search giant Baidu had contemplated partnering with DMG on a bid, but the tech company pulled out in May after it became apparent
that the Redstone family, Viacom’s controlling shareholders, opposed a sale." (hollywoodreporter.com)
- Seven Ways to Make Your Own Luck in The Film Industry - honest, frank advice about what it takes to build a successful career in the film industry. Our personal faves are numbers 3 & 4. (library.creativecow.net)
- R.I.P., VHS VCRs - "Funai sold 750,000 VHS machines last year, but it’s getting harder to get parts from suppliers and the market is declining, so it’s the end of the line for the format after 40 years of production" (provideocoalition.com)
- How Films Make Money Part 2: $30m - $100m Movies - "as we start to look at smaller movies we
need to subdivide by genre . . . when you use genre to group movies it adds a large degree of subjectivity" (stephenfollows.com)
- Netflix Flixtape: Create, Share ‘Movie Mixtapes’ - "a standalone website that allows users to make playlists of their favorite movies and TV shows . . . these lists can either be shared, via text message, email or social networks including Facebook and Twitter, with family and friends, or simply
created for the user’s own reference." (etcentric.org)
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The stories featured in this section are from MixingLight.com, 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. - [video] Dirty Looks: Taking your image to the limit - "I recently graded a beautiful music video for the legendary Emil Nava and his brief was turn it up to 11. So this insight is all about taking your image to the limit." (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Resolve Remote Rendering for Windows: Setting up a ProRes ‘Dongle’ - "Resolve 12/12.5 Studio . . . I want to show you how to set this up in this Insight for the purpose of using a Mac for ProRes rendering." (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Using A
Colorist Control Surface With Premiere Pro CC 2015.3 - "A control surface allows a colorist to try and discard multiple ideas, very very quickly—something that can’t be replicated when using a ‘single action at a time’ mouse . . . the entire line of modern Tangent control surfaces are now supported with the Premiere Pro CC 2015.3 update." (mixinglight.com)
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- Working with Resolutions Above 4K - “Most of the time, I'm shooting in 5K to stay within the Super 35 sensor, which is what is most common these days. Having the ability to go to 6K if we need to
quickly get a little wider or if we want to stabilize in post-production has become a huge advantage.“ Shane Hurlbut, ASC on working with higher-than 4K resolutions. (redsharknews.com)
- How to Brand Yourself - and get hired by clients. This blog post is mostly examples of successful design and vfx firms but is a really good read. (theclientblog.com)
- The Scientific Argument for Mastering One Thing at a Time - “automaticity is the ability to perform a behavior without thinking about each step, which allows the pattern to
become automatic and habitual. But here’s the thing: automaticity only occurs as the result of lots of repetition and practice.” (lifehacker.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. October 31. (fmctraining.com)
- [workshop] THX Certified Video Calibration Hands-On Workshops - in Singapore and Dallas. (thxvideotech.com)
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- BTS: View From The Camera Car - during a car chase in a Jason Bourne movie. It's part of a longer (mostly boring) Behind The Scenes video, so this link starts you at the fun stuff. (youtu.be via kottke.org)
- Roadside America: Plan Your Road Trip with Attractions In Every
State - it's that time of year in the USA; time to pack the car and take off. Whether a day-cation or two weeks on the road, this website should be considered essential. I had no idea I lived a short drive from a 24-Foot-Tall Potty Chair! (roadsideamerica.com )
- Wilson Tennis Ball Factory - "See how the little green spheres are built in this wordless documentary look at the mass production of tennis balls, from glop to globe, in just over three minutes." (studiodaily.com)
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- Ymagis Group Launches EclairColor - a new (tasty) cinema distribution format has been revealed... "another significant advantage with EclairColor is that it has been developed around a range of digital
cinema projectors already available on the market, meaning cinema exhibitors can begin using this new technology virtually immediately and at very attractive rates." (digitalcinemareport.com)
- [review] BizonBOX 2 GPU Expander for Mac Pro Cylinder - “One of the frustrations of 'late 2013' Mac Pro cylinder owners is the inability to run CUDA capable applications -- since the dual AMD FirePro GPUs do not support CUDA. Bizon is offering a solution” (barefeats.com)
- Canon: New 4K Projector Exceeds DCI Standard - “projector’s native 4K resolution is . . . higher than the Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI) standard for 4K cinema [and] 4K TV. This higher resolution can be a critical factor for those applications like simulation and training and design and engineering, which may require larger vertical display areas.” But a bit pricey. (provideocoalition.com)
- Blackmagic
Ships New DIY Arduino Shield 3G-SDI - “Arduino, if you don’t know, is an open-source, flexible, hardware-focused rapid prototyping system. They are basically very small computers, designed to interact with the world around them through various I/O methods and simple to understand software code.” Click through to read what this new product does for cameras. (nofilmschool.com)
- Editing
with the Lumaforge and Premiere Pro CC - “5 editors . . . delivering content to 70,000 fans in a stadium needs a good workflow." (provideocoalition.com)
- [review] Samsung UN65KS9800 Raises The Bar On HDR - "placing LEDs in a series of zones all across the back plane of the LCD. This provides a localized
source of lighting control that allows almost entirely shutting off light to groups of LEDs in a zone to create nearly perfect blacks in specific areas of the picture" and it achieves better than 1,000 nits. (hdguru.com)
- Speckle Contrast Reduction For Laser Projectors - "speckle contrast reduction becomes the bottleneck for the deployment of lasers for cinema projectors." Details on the latest tech that might help laser projectors
become widespread. (displaydaily.com)
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- [video] Gotta Groove Records - legend has it Rock and Roll was born in Cleveland, Oho. Director Nick Cavalier and Cinematographer John Pope put together a love letter to the art of making vinyl records.
A craft that is still alive in Cleveland. Shot on the Sony FS7. Colorist was Allan Stallard at AnimalVFX.com (vimeo.com)
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- A Jetpack For Your Clubs - "the BW-Air is an experimental aircraft capable of flying at 46 mph and at an altitude of 3,000 feet." In this promotion video, see it in action as a high-tech golf cart. (golfdigest.com)
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- Sharing HBO GO or Netflix Passwords Is Now A Federal Crime - "using another person’s password to access online services such as HBO GO and Netflix is now considered in violation of federal computer
laws." Interesting how those services say not to worry, they consider password sharing to be good for their business. Then why the heck did they go to court? Speaking out of both sides of their mouth, it seems to us. (etcentric.org)
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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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