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- [video] How to Pick the Right Color Grading Software - “Even if you are not a colorist you must get good at grading.” Finding budget color correction software based on their architecture and your needs. Interesting. (youtube.com)
- Meet the
Cinematographer - “The colorist at ScreenCraft was not used to doing films, as he had mainly worked on video and TV, so I had to influence him step-by-step, feeling the story.” Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro talks about the craft of filmmaking and working with colorists. (filmlight.ltd.uk)
- Saved By Grace - “Although I did export the final show to Resolve 12 for color timing we were not happy with what we were getting (not to mention all the crashes), and went back to Redcine to do most of the color.” Hollywood veteran filmmaker Lance Bachelder explains his post-production color workflow using FCP X on his latest feature
Saved By Grace. (fcp.co)
- Go Inside A Professional Color Grading Suite - "colorist Rob Bessette guides a tour of his color suite at Boston’s Finish Post." (premiumbeat.com)
- A Day With Charles Poynton - "Poynton would like to see the “brightness” adjustment we know eliminated from consumer TVs with the “contrast” knob relabeled “white level” and make sure it adjusts the diffuse white level, not
the peak white level." This and about a dozen other interesting takeaways from a summary of a recent workshop. (displaydaily.com)
- Colorist Podcast: Mark Todd Osborne - "What’s most impressive about Mark’s career is ability to work in many
different genres . . . commercials, television, cinema, music videos, and even video games." (mixinglight.com)
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- [video] Adding a Ref Movie in Resolve 12 - “You would be mad to start grading without first checking the conform with a ref movie. Judging by the number of questions I get about this …, this can be quite tricky.” Colorist Warren Eagles shows you how to use a reference movie. (vimeo.com)
- FilmConvert Updates -
new camera profiles, a new Color Hub blog, and a Color Up film contest. In-depth information about FilmConvert and the push to make color science a little more accessible. (newsshooter.com)
- Color Grading in Photoshop - “I play with my images in Capture One until I feel the color is as close to my final vision as possible without going to Photoshop yet.” How one stills photographer uses gradient maps and blending modes in his color workflow. (fstoppers.com)
- DaVinci Resolve on a Surface Pro 4 - “Can you colour grade on a tablet? Yes.” Ah, but should you? (provideocoalition.com)
- New to DaVinci Resolve? - 'A bunch of tips to get you started.’ For beginners. (nofilmschool.com)
- [video] How To Add A Custom Camera Shake With S_Shake|Sapphire - a GenArts tutorial. (youtube.com)
- [videos]
DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Color Grading Tutorials - a week's worth of watching. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- [video] DaVinci Resolve 12: Using the Track Selection
Tool- “what it will do is select everything from that point forward which is extremely helpful when you have long convoluted timelines.” A quick tip on using the track select tool, similar to Premiere Pro and FCP X. (youtube.com)
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- Colorist Society International - “CSI is more like the ASC for cinematographers or ACE for editors. It’s the first professional society to represent motion picture and television colorists in the film and digital entertainment industry.” An interview with
the Tao Newsletter Managing Editor and co-Founder of CSI, Jim Wicks. (redsharknews.com)
- The Exponential Change in TV Viewing Habits - this article suggests we're entering the steep part of the slope away from traditional TV viewing habits that's been talked about for a decade and is now an emerging reality. (displaydaily.com)
- Fandango Tests Selling Movie Tickets Directly via Facebook - from each film's Facebook page. (etcentric.org)
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a member? Sign up for a free 24-hour Test Drive. - [video] DaVinci Resolve Detective: ‘Panel Math’ vs ‘Mouse Math’ - if you use DaVinci Resolve with a mouse then the bad news is you're working harder than control surface colorists because the same inputs on the two different bits of hardware give *very* different results. A free Insight in front of the paywall. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Resolve FX: Grading With Lens Flares - because Lens Flares are a great way for colorists to add texture and VFX to their work. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Getting To Know The DaVinci Resolve Control Panel: Overview - your Tao Publisher was on-set recording training with colorist Robbie Carman, and we recorded an overview of Blackmagic's $30,000 colorist control surface. (mixinglight.com)
- DaVinici Resolve Detective Part 2: How To Deal With ‘Mouse Math’ - if you're a mouse-based colorist and watched Part 1 where I explained why you're doing more work than control surface colorists then watch this Insight to learn a solid work-around. Plus one or two more mouse UI 'quirks' discovered. Free, in front of the
paywall. (mixinglight.com)
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- Color Blindness Upgraded - the story of overcoming color blindness with color-correction glasses begins, “The funny thing about a deficiency is that others around see with crystal clarity what is wrong while the carrier of the defect has no clue.” (guardianlv.com)
- Email Etiquette - "when you send an email off to a client, there's a pretty good chance they won't fully grasp your intended meaning.” 10 common phrases you should stop using in client emails.
Immediately. (blog.hubspot.com)
- Seven Emergency Preparedness Tips You May Not Know - as a new'ish resident of Florida deep in the middle of hurricane season, tips like this tend to
catch my attention. (lifehacker.com)
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- [workshop] Colorist Flight School LIVE!: DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Fundamentals - your Tao Newsletter Publisher is doing 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. Oct 31 - Nov 2. (fmctraining.com)
- Final Cut Pro X Creative Summit 2016 Discount - click on the image in this post to reveal the $125 discount code. October 27 - 30. Cupertino, CA. (philiphodgetts.com)
- Adobe Video World - with tracks on Premiere Pro and After Effects. September 27 - October 2. Seattle, WA. (adobevideoworld.com)
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- [video] Cooking Tiny Bacon and Eggs - there’s something soothing about bacon and eggs in general. Watching someone making ‘tiny’ bacon and eggs is extra soothing. Yes, funny. And tiny. (youtube.com)
- [video] Born
To Be Mild: The Dull Men’s Club - if I were born a Vulcan, my response to this would be, "Fascinating." But I'm not, so I just smiled the whole time. (kottke.org)
- Staging The ‘Deepwater Horizon’ Disaster - a pithy
article about, "film facts, Including How and Why the Production Built One of the Largest Sets Ever Constructed" (studiodaily.com)
- [video] The Most Amazing Whistler In The World -
seriously. Amazing. (kottke.org)
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- 4K Wireless Video Transmission - in Epson’s flagship projector model (displaydaily.com)
- DJI’s New Foldable Drone takes On The GoPro Karma - "collapsed, the Mavic is designed to clip to your belt". One more time. It folds. It clips to your belt. (premiumbeat.com)
- Palette: Midi Panels For NLEs - we've also seen these panels used for color grading. (provideocoalition.com)
- A Color Tunable OLED Is Under Development - "Although there are a number of ways to produce a multicolor OLED display, existing technologies either do not allow electrical control of the emission colors or require additional manufacturing steps. This issue is being addressed by research in Korea." (displaydaily.com)
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- A Health Benefit to Roller Coasters - “if you rode a variety of roller coasters in a short period of time, that would help you pass small stones and lingering sediment before it accumulates into debilitating, costly, obstructive stones.” YES! A medical reason to ride roller coasters. (theatlantic.com)
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- NASA Changed All The Astrological Signs and I’m A Crab Now - seriously, your Tao Publisher switched from Aquarius to Capricorn thanks to NASA? (arstechnica.com)
- No, your zodiac sign hasn't changed - Or not. (slate.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)
- Color Grading with Avid and Symphony - Written for version 6. Fully applicable to version 7. I was a contributor. (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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