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- Light Plus Color - “For me, it is important to be specific in camera as opposed to relying on post production later to fix any problem.” Fix it camera, not in post. The craft of lighting on set, gels, and using color to create moods. (tvtechnology.com)
- This Year's Must-Know Color Trends - “There’s nothing your clients will love more than being on the cutting edge of color trends this year …” See what is trending for graphic designers as they
use color to set moods for their clients brands. (creativemarket.com)
- Can you name this color? And can you remember it correctly? - "when checking a print job on color, small deviations in color just don’t matter!" A quote that's heresy to those of you grading product spots! Click through to find
out why your clients don't need to be obsessing on matching those Pantone color swatches. (insights4print.ceo)
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- [video] Smarter selections using Markers in Resolve 12.5 - “It gives you yet another reason to take advantage of Resolve’s numerous ways of organizing your clips visually with flags, markers and clip colors.” Alexis Van Hurkman shows you a handy little feature to help improve your workflow. (youtube.com)
- Review: Windows ProRes Encoder Beta - ProRes on a Windows machine? It's hit or miss if your post-production software can render to ProRes. And mostly, miss. Is this new product a viable solution? “Windows ProRes is a beta product, and it has a few quirks.” Read this in-depth review. (provideocoalition.com)
- Window ProRes Encoder for DaVinci Resolve - currently this encoder only supports Adobe and Mocha Pro. If you scroll down their homepage you can subscribe to be notified when they have DaVinci Resolve support. Or... do nothing and keep
reading this Newsletter every week! We'll definitely let you know when they push it out. (windowsprores.com)
- Create Packages To Deploy Creative Cloud For Teams - "Adobe Creative Cloud Packager lets you control which Creative Cloud apps users in your organization can install and whether to allow automatic updates. Follow these steps
to create a package you can then deploy using third-party tools." (adobe.com)
- Action VFX: Stock Explosions, Fire, Smoke, Particles and More - because colorists are being pressed into adding these types of
effects. (studiodaily.com)
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- AICE Expands Color Grading Categories - the annual competition for excellence in the postproduction arts, increases the color awards categories “...recognizing how the art and craft of color correction . . . play an increasingly important role in achieving clients’ and directors’ creative
goals.” Click through to see the new categories. Deadline for submission? Monday. (shootonline.com)
- Why Hollywood Is Over - “”We’re different,” one producer recently told me. “No one can do what we do. The kind
of disruption that hit music, publishing, and other industries is already reshaping Hollywood.” Attendance down, profits dwindling, tech takeover. Does the argument hold up? Read the story to decide. (vanityfair.com)
- Netflix Is Growing Eyeballs - “19 million new subscribers in 2016 compared to 17.4 million subscribers in 2015.” So how much will Netflix spend next year on content? It's a big number. (muvi.com)
- New Specs For DisplayPort and HDMI - "VESA, announced its early certification program for interfaces using the DisplayPort standard that can drive 8K video resolution. Not to be outdone, the HDMI Forum also today announced HDMI
spec 2.1, which can drive 8K resolutions as well." Some interesting facts to mull over in this story. (9to5mac.com)
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for a free 24-hour Test Drive. - [video] Feature Inspired Looks: Blade Runner 2049 - "a big note for this series is that the looks are inspired by the trailers . . . The first step to actually recreating this perfectly is to hire Rodger Deakins and plan a multi-million dollar shoot. The rest of us regular humans can enjoy having some fun at trying the look on regular footage." (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Color Matching Color Charts with RAW and Log Footage for ACES (in DaVinci Resolve) - "The explanation is easier if we separate the discussion of LOG or RAW recordings from the discussion of the ACES workflow using DaVinci Resolve’s Color Match feature." (mixinglight.com)
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- Switching from Premiere Pro on Windows to FCPX on Mac - a UK video production company goes against the tide. Part One deals with the reasons behind their switch. If “you want to cut right to the chase and see how we
weigh up Adobe Premiere Pro then we deal with that in-depth in Part Two of this blog post.” (vivalazoom.co.uk | Part 2)
- Final Cut Pro Diary - “The workshop packed in so much material that much of it will benefit from repetition, especially as I want to learn much more about color correction and shadows & highlights adjustments in video.” A novice
records his journey from iMovie to FCPX, taking advantage of free workshops, and building a studio on a budget. (9to5mac.com)
- How To Beat The Imposter Syndrome Feeling - "Approximately 70 percent of us will experience a
period of self-doubt at least once in our lives. Rebuild your confidence using these five strategies." (99u.com)
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- 2017 REDucation Workshops - a list of the workshops being held at AbelCine in New York, Chicago and LA for 2017. (training.abelcine.com)
- Webinar: What’s New in FCPX - "It's here, the newest version of Apple’s flagship video editing software, Final Cut Pro 10.3, and we will cover some of the most exciting new features in this free 45-minute webinar." Friday, Feb 10 (fmctraining.com)
- Flanders Scientific & Colorist Patrick Inhofer - Join your Tao Publisher and Tao Newsletter Sponsor, Flanders Scientific, as we talk reference displays; how to choose one and see two affordable high-quality affordable LCDs from FSI. Plus, I'll talk about the decision and execution of moving my grading business off the Mac and onto Windows. Live and streaming. Feb. 20, 7p Eastern. (orlandoedits.com)
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- Color in Clothing: Swipe Right for Ugly Sweaters with Happy, Rainbow Hues - "chances are that the majority of us Colourlovers attended at least one ugly sweater party during the recent December holiday season . . . We've gathered
some of our favorite ugly sweater samples, alongside our created palettes which they inspired, for your viewing pleasure (and benign ridicule?)." (colourlovers.com)
- [video] Sully: VFX Breakdown - these are always fun... and no digital people actually got hurt in the creation of this Breakdown
reel. (youtu.be)
- [video]Bohemian Rhapsody Played by 100+ year old fairground organ - too. Freaking. Cool. (youtu.be)
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- New Liquid Crystal Could Make TVs Three Times Sharper - this is good news for VR headset makers. (pddnet.com via Tao Publisher, Sr.)
- LG's fixing its 5K monitor to work near Wi-Fi routers - the upshot: More shielding. Except... "The extra shielding won't help existing models, but you can contact LG for help." (macworld.com)
- AKiTiO Node Thunderbolt 3 eGPU for 'late 2016' MacBook Pro - "We benchmarked five different NVIDIA GPUs in this well designed Thunderbolt 3 eGPU box."
(barefeats.com)
- Calibration For HDR Evolves Through Challenges - "The question then is how do we calibrate our displays for HDR and can we calibrate a given display separately for all of the different HDR formats; HDR10, Dolby Vision, and the Technicolor/Philips format, which are all competing HDR formats?" The
many challenges and pitfalls of calibrating consumer displays for HDR. (hdguru.com)
- LG 4K LCD TVs Continue Controversial RGBW Tech - "Critics of the LCD approach to RGBW say the unusual sub-pixel arrangement prevents the panels from achieving full UHD color resolution, and
therefore the displays do not meet the Consumer Technology Association’s (CTA) definition of a 4K Ultra HDTV". Interesting. (hdguru.com)
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- [video] Seasons of Norway - A Timelapse Adventure in 8K is the latest project from filmmaker/photographer Morten Rustad, shot using the Sony A7RII as his main camera. Morten emailed us to say that he color graded the final project mainly using Lightroom, although some final touches were completed in Color Finale in FCPX. (youtube.com)
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- The Advent of OLED Fabric Displays? - "Parasitic powered displays on the body are expected that can change illumination and color that responds to the wearer’s movement and the power [energy] that is produced as a result." Plus other applications are explored in this article. (displaydaily.com)
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- Meet the World's First 4K Triple Display Laptop - Rad? Ridiculous? Or perfect for the colorist on-the-go? (nofilmschool.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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