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- The Art of Color Rendering - “the idea that there's some sort of universal standard for how skin should look is no more accurate than the idea that there is any standard for human skin colour in the first place.” Cinematographer Phil Rhodes on the art of color. (redsharknews.com)
- Gene Curley: Meet the Colorist - “There’s an art to traditional 30 second or 60 second commercials, but in fashion and beauty work they’re more like short films and the clients are open to pushing the look a bit more.” (filmlight.ltd.uk)
- The Color of The Get Down - “Baz uses color to tell the story… Each scene has its own look and emotion. Sometimes, individual characters have their own presence.” Colorist John Crowley about grading Baz Luhrmann’s new series for Netflix. (postperspective.com)
- The Cunning Use of Color - “Over the course of our lifetime, colors guide us through a complex world and help shape our understanding of it. But colors are also constantly influencing our behavior, emotions, and physiology
in ways we may not even be aware of, especially when it comes to the digital world.” Fascinating. (qz.com)
- Steven Bodner: Color Grading True Detective - “Once we had the primary balance where we wanted, I then watched it back with audio to see if the look matched the tone. I then used Linear controls to dig in and create some subtle differences in the separate areas of the image..” Supervising Colorist about his color work on
‘True Detective.’ (lowepost.com)
- 2016 HPA Awards Nominees - "The award-winners will be announced during a ceremony on November 17 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles." (studiodaily.com)
- The Evolving Role Of A Colorist - "What is a digital colorist? What are they responsible for? Let’s take a look at the ever-changing duties of
colorists in film and video production." (premiumbeat.com)
- The Bird-Based Color System - "An effort to describe the diversity of birds led to one of the first modern color systems." Tht system became Pantone. (hyperallergic.com via Shawn King)
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- [video] Premiere Pro Advanced Color Correction - “I didn’t just look at the image and think, ah it looks a little bit red and started fixing it. I looked at the image with the tools - with the vectorscope and the RGB Parade to ensure that what I am seeing is actually accurate and it’s not just my monitor lying to me.” (youtube.com)
- GenArts Previews New Presets, FX In Sapphire 10 - "as well as improved workflow controls and better ways to both find effects and organize projects inside the software." (studiodaily.com)
- How To Correct Underexposed Footage - "You’ve underexposed your shot and now it’s too dark to tell what’s going on. Don’t panic. Instead, use these techniques to correct underexposed footage." (premiumbeat.com)
- Professional FCPX Film and TV Workflows - "I’ve brought together some of the best workflow case studies, presentations and articles on using FCPX to cut TV shows, trailers, feature film and commercials." (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- Colorfront Updates Transkoder For 8K - get the details on their "mastering and QC application". (studiodaily.com)
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- Netflix Debuts Open Source Tools For IMF and Image Testing - "Meridian, a 12-minute movie that acts as test footage to allow hardware manufacturers, codec developers and engineers to evaluate imagery." (etcentric.org)
- How Many Filmmakers Run Multiple Crowdfunding Campaigns? - "Today’s research was sparked by a reader question . . how many campaign owners have gone from running smaller Kickstarter campaigns to
returning later to do larger ones?”" (stephenfollows.com)
- About SMPTE's Time Code Summits - "series . . . aimed at gathering feedback that will help shape the drafting of a new "Time Label" standard — essentially, SMPTE Time Code for a new
generation." (studiodaily.com)
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- [videos] UK MVA’s Best Color Nominations 2016 - "Lets take a look at the nominations for some top level color grading inspiration!" (mixinglight.com)
- [video] DaVinci Resolve: Revisiting Multi-Channel Audio Output - "In the movie below, you'll learn to toggle between routing in pairs vs routing to discrete channels. By routing to discrete channels you can avoid the panning discussed
in the previous Insight and make quick work of making a multi-channel output." (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Thinking Like A Colorist: Considering Final Contrast - "My first thought is where would I like this to end up? The reason this is such an important decision is I use totally different
controls to create my primary contrast look depending on what kind of project that I’m working on." (mixinglight.com)
- First Look: Color Finale Pro For FCPX - "This Insight covers one particular new feature in Color Finale Pro I find exciting… Tangent Devices support."
Which takes a bit of setting up to get working properly. (mixinglight.com)
- ‘You’ll Get Paid, When We Get Paid’ - 5 ways to avoid this trap. (mixinglight.com)
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- [Podcast] McCabe and Mrs. Miller - “He went in and spent time timing it to his liking. And that was the print that was used by Criterion as the guide.” (30:38) James Chressanthis, ASC, talks about the great Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, who re-color timed his famous
movie as it was prepped for 4K restoration. (theasc.com)
- Useful Things for Your Suite - fun post is geared to the editor, but there are few items in here that can pull
double duty in your color suite. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- NASA's On-The-Fly High-Speed 3D HDR Video - "The idea is to be able to capture the extremely wide range of brightness values during a rocket test so that the rocket itself and the flames of the plume can be seen and studied
simultaneously" (dpreview.com via David E.
Bell)
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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 attend, 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)
- NAB Show New York - Jacob Javits Convention, November 9-10 (nabshowny.com)
- HDR & Color Management With Dado Valentic - Wednesday, October 26 in Berlin, Germany (eventbrite.com)
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- [video] Uncanny Car Impressions - "he imitates them so well that a trio of actual race car drivers are able to pick out exactly which ones he’s doing." (kottke.org)
- Learn The Basics Of Tying Wood Together - with three different lashings. (lifehacker.com)
- Use A Meal Non-Plan Approach To Simplify Cooking - "try a modular approach to your meals that let you cook a variety of meals without as much scheduling." (lifehacker.com)
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- G-Tech G-RACK 12 - “And no, it does NOT require a server computer. The server is built into the main unit itself, so you are not stuck with a large Mac or PC sitting there, acting as the server.” Learn why Bob Zelin says the G-Rack 12 is a winner. (library.creativecow.net)
- White Paper: 4K, HDR, HFR - Calculating the storage impact in digital media workflows. A white paper via Quantum. (landing.quantum.com)
- Review: Hisense 50H8C 4K HD TV - impressive entry-level HDR performance (hdguru.com)
- LG OLEDs Reach Reference Studio Monitor Class - "the third generation of consumer grade OLED TV, "...has the highest absolute color accuracy, the
highest absolute luminance accuracy, and the highest contrast ratio with perfect black levels of any TV that we have ever tested..." (displaydaily.com)
- New 4K Ultra HDTVs Brighten Up The Great Outdoors -
"As more and more Americans look to take their big-screen fun outdoors to elaborate patios, decks and outdoor living spaces three TV manufacturers who attended the recent CEDIA Expo 2016 in Dallas, Texas rolled out some advanced new all-weather approaches." (hdguru.com)
- [video] What Can A RED Helium 8K Camera Can Do - "The obvious takeaways from the video are that you can push this sensor much harder than the previous 6K and 5K sensors." (newsshooter.com)
- Screen Real Estate Showdown: Ultrawide vs 4K Monitors - "if you’re thinking about replacing your display with either with an ultrawide or a 4K monitor,
you have a few things to consider that’ll influence your decision." (lifehacker.com)
- Say Goodbye To Apple’s Third Generation Apple TV - "The fourth-gen Apple TV with tvOS, App Store, and Siri
remote is Apple's priority." (macworld.com)
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- The 1970s Monster Cereal That Caused a Pink Poop Panic - “In March of 1971, hoping to piggyback off the success of Lucky Charms, General Mills introduced a new line of "Monster Cereals.” What happened next created a ‘medical technicolor experience’ that had kids, moms, and doctors 'on the ‘run’ looking for the culprit. (atlasobscura.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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