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- Why It's Hard to Remember Colors - “although we can distinguish between millions of colors, our brain will generalize any color to the ‘best’ versions of a limited set of basic colors” Written for graphic designers about a recent study, but food for thought for the rest of us. (insights4print.ceo)
- Colorist Jack Lewars On Manchester By The Sea - "The idea of giving those flashbacks a different look, and perhaps making it easier for
audiences to follow the story without moments of confusion, was considered but rejected." Nice write-up. (studiodaily.com)
- Color Grading Underwater In Real Time - but
colorist Mike Eaves didn't color grade while underwater. They "set up a 360 viewing node using the Mistika’s robust toolset. That allowed images to be mapped on a sphere so that Eaves could view graded material in 360 space." Very interesting. (provideocoalition.com)
- DIT Workflow: Gold - "In order to help differentiate the lush tropical jungles of Southeast Asia, to the dry wastelands of Nevada, it was decided to shoot our part on 35mm film, and the rest of the film on Arri Alexa." So how does a DIT data wrangle film? Click through to read this amusingly told story. (ditspot.net)
- Interview: Alexander Lemke - "Do VFX artists in fact have more influence over the mise en scène and overall visual look of a film than the director or cinematographer, or are they just craftspeople working toward a shared goal?" This article with the VFX supervisor is, "an interview
providing a snapshot of contemporary VFX workflow practices and labor concerns." (filmcomment.com)
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- [video] The Wireless Camera: COLR and Control - this piece feels like paid placement for Teradeck COLR but the content is solid and interesting. The video is embedded at the bottom of the page and show the COLR at work. (provideocoalition.com)
- [video] Off the Grid Part 1: FCPx On-Set BTS - the embedded Behind the Scenes video in this article concisely shows the FCPx workflow for on-set editorial. The metadata ingest and marrying to the footage is fascinating. (fcp.co)
- Off The Grid Part 2: The Benefits of FCPx
Metadata-Driven Mindset - " 'This is the most organized sound delivery I have ever seen' . . . I responded, 'I didn’t have to do anything to prep this for you. Because my sound recordist properly labeled mics using iXML, FCPX and X2Pro did it all for me.' Her mind was blown." (fcp.co)
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- CES 2017: Wafer-thin OLEDs and HDR - “No TV will be marketable in the year ahead though without a badge signposting its performance in High Dynamic Range (HDR).” Are you getting ready for this? (redsharknews.com)
- Lucas Museum - “Lucas has been looking for a home for his collection for more than a decade. He faced community opposition in first San
Francisco and then Chicago.” But not in L.A. May the museum be with you. (variety.com)
- How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists - "internal turmoil has taken a toll. More than a dozen engineers and
managers working on Mac hardware have left for different Apple teams or other companies in the past year and a half." (bloomberg.com)
- Nanosys To Show Color Volume Demo at CES 2017 - "Many
are now coming around to the notion that using color volume to describe an HDR display’s color performance as a function of luminance is a much better way that simply showing a two-dimensional CIE color gamut chart. This discussion gets more complicated when considering OLED HDR displays which use a RGBW pixel structure." More of this at the click. (displaydaily.com)
- [video] What makes for the perfect LCD or OLED Backlight? - from the item above I found this recent interview with Nanosys about 'the perfect
backlight' and why they think Quantum dots (and their technology) are the answer—and the roadmap. Good stuff worth watching. (youtu.be)
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for a free 24-hour Test Drive. - [podcast] Talking GPUs + Tech We Can't Live Without - Team Mixing Light chats about the current state of GPUs. Plus we name technology we can't live without... and tech we're happy (or surprised) we can do without. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Using The ‘Offline Reference’ Feature in Davinci Resolve - your Tao Newsletter publisher wraps up his 9-part series on conforming a
timeline by answering common questions that need some explanation. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Why We Love LUTs & How to Replace your LUT
Addiction - colorist Dan Moran, CSI grapples with the appealing nature of LUTs... and how you can break your addiction to them, in this Resolve-centric Insight. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Sky Replacement: Should You Add This To Your Skill Set? - like the title says. Plus, how to do sky replacements in DaVinci Resolve. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Overview: Using The Logitech G13 Gaming Keypad - your publisher is addicted to outboard gear that supplements a colorist control
surface—to work faster and more intuitively. This Insight looks at a popular solution with some nifty features. (mixinglight.com)
- Color Correction Gear Head: January 2017 - BMD smart video hub, Gefen UHD ethernet extenders, IOGear BoostLinq, Streambox HD Hybrid Software Encoder are all reviewed in this article. (mixinglight.com)
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- RED Helium’s All-Time-High Score - “the Helium posts a record-setting score, measuring nearly 27 bits of Color Depth, higher than any of the full-frame DSLRs we have tested.” (dxomark.com)
- How to Say No at Work - ever had to tell a client,’no’ and mean it? Or, did you cave? And did you feel bad afterward? Overcome all that. (businessbacker.com)
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- 16 Movies in 16 Quotes - “I’m your father.” Remembering a cool movie line is what separates an ordinary film from a movie classic? “Great Scott!” (likecool.com)
- This Is Where You Should Keep Your Stuff When You’re Wearing A Suit - because post-production males need help on this kind of stuff. (lifehacker.com)
- [video] Apple's Spaceship: Drone Footage Timelapse Of Campus 2 Construction - less a timelapse than a series of dissolves from the last 6 months but you get the point. They don't show the ion
drives being installed, which disappointed me. (9to5mac.com)
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- Thunderbolt 3 - "Let’s break down the potential uses for Thunderbolt 3 connections and then take a look at some of the gotchas when working with the new interface.” (provideocoalition.com)
- Adobe Photoshop CC 2017: Intel Core i7 7700K and i5 7600K Performance - "In addition, we will also be looking at a number of "High-End" Core i7 CPUs from Intel including the i7 6850K, i7 6900K, and i7 6950X." (pugetsystems.com)
- Premiere Pro 2017: Intel Core i7 7700K and i5 7600K Performance - "When Intel launches a new set of CPUs, the main question everyone wants answered is
how much faster they are compared to the old models. In this article, we will be tackling this question in terms of Premiere Pro performance" (pugetsystems.com)
- Boosting GPU Performance Of The ‘Late 2016’ MacBook Pro Using A GPU Xpander - "we decided to see how the BizonBOX 2 (Thunderbolt 2) would perform connected to the 'late 2016' MacBook Pro." Featuring the GeForce GTX 980 Ti (6GB) GPU in the expander. (barefeats.com)
- AJA T-Tap Overview - "some FCPX editors use a T-Tap while editing in FCPX and then switch over to a MiniMonitor or UltraStudio for Resolve work. The reason being the better performance between Final Cut and the AJA products." (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- HD Guru’s Best Of CES 2017 Awards - From Best In Show to Best Value, what are their top consumer displays from CES? (hdguru.com)
- Top 10 Products Of 2016 - "as we look back at 2016, we reflect on what an interesting year it was and what a big part involved media consumption – and more specifically – LIVE media consumption." (provideocoalition.com)
- Full-Dome Screens: When 100,000 Lumens Isn’t Enough - "Planetariums have been one of the last hold-outs in the film to digital revolution in projection technology . . . This has changed and planetariums world-wide are replacing their
70mm film projectors digital projectors." (displaydaily.com)
- Apple’s MacBook Pro Battery Woes: Fixed? - Apparently so. (studiodaily.com)
- Nvidia Quadro P6000 Outperforms Titan X Pascal In Gaming Benchmarks - click through for the numbers. (videocardz.com)
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- [video] Take Mine - Apple’s new iPhone commercial pretends as if people have never seen a smartphone before. Okay, maybe the premise is a stretch, but the commercial does have a certain charm to it as it promotes the "Portrait" mode on the iPhone 7 Plus. And, as your Publisher and Managing Editor can attest. the dual-lens set-up works great. Oh, and good color, too. (youtube.com)
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- 3G Comes to Mount Everest - visitors, Khumby Valley locals, and climbers alike can now make calls and surf the web from their smartphones. Hopefully that big Mount Everest'y thing over there doesn’t block my cell signal, man. (mashable.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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