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- Color Mixing for Acrylic: The Color Green - “When you look at areas of green in nature it’s important to notice that the greens are not all exactly the same. For a natural look, you want a variation of green to imply where something might be hit by sunlight or hidden in shadow.” The adventure and craft of how a painter sees
green. (artistsnetwork.com)
- Color Management, Explained - this article is written primarily for print workflows. But it is also directly applicable to color management for digital video. Check it out. (insights4print.ceo)
- [videos] Accentuating Light With Custom Mattes - thoughts about the work done by colorist Steve Scott on Birdman and The Revenant and the hyper use of
mattes to meticulously craft the final image. (robbessette.com)
- Famous Paintings Provide Perfect Palette Ideas - you've seen these paintings before. Now see their palettes broken down. (colourlovers.com)
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- Photoshop: My Luminosity Range Control Action Explained- “I find that this is great for color correcting, color grading/styling, or even quick test edits on the fly.“ Look for the link at the bottom and download the free Photoshop Action. (fstoppers.com)
- Assimilate Puts Scratch 8.6 & Scratch VR In Open Beta - the new versions "add expanded HDR support and updated ACES transforms to Scratch and bring stitching to Scratch VR, along with some UI
tweaks." Click through for a detailed rundown of new features, which are good. (studiodaily.com)
- Review: Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite 13 - "Magic Bullet Suite 13 has seven distinct tools" and after a long run-up, this post runs down the
most significant new features. (studiodaily.com)
- Filmconvert Releases A New Profile For The Sony RX100v - "the RX100 V can shoot in the Slog2 picture profile in the XAVC S format for recording bit rates up to 100 Mbps. It can be used as a nice
“B” camera to other Sony cameras such as the FS5 and FS7." (newsshooter.com)
- Is It Worth Round-Tripping To Resolve? - in a split screen, watch a 5-shot sequence get graded with Premiere's
Lumetri effect with the same sequence round-tripped and graded in DaVinci Resolve. Is Premiere faster, executing the same moves without the round-trip nonsense? This is not quite a real-world test... but it's pretty good anyway. (studiodaily.com)
- DaVinci Resolve: Enhance Your Sky In Under Five Minutes - a quick technique. (premiumbeat.com)
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- Polish Filmmakers: The Next Generation - “this younger generation is not political in the way the older filmmakers were, but “stylistically and in terms of modern expression they are much more powerful.” (variety.com)
- Super Bowl Halftime Show Offers Glimpse Into Future Of UAVs - "an army of 300 synchronized drones that morphed from stars to a waving flag
above the Houston skyline. That effect was courtesy of the Intel Shooting Star drone system." Your publisher saw the Shoot Star system in action this past holiday at Disney, Orlando. I offer five words: You ain't seen nothing yet. (etcentric.org)
- Patriot’s Stunning Upset Delivers More Than 100M Viewers - Stunning upset? Balderdash! I call it Atlanta's stunning collapse. And yes, a new dark pit exists in the heart of this New York Jets fan
for the city of Atlanta. It's appropriately carved out of the dark pit reserved for Boston franchises. (campaignlive.com)
- Reality Check On Digital Advertising vs Print -
which form of advertising is seen as more reliable by consumers? (insights4print.ceo)
- Goodbye to GoPro's VR website - it's shutting down this month. But, "GoPro also announced that it will be
releasing the technology behind GoProVR, 'so you can create VR experiences on your own.' The free open-source framework, ForgeJS, will offer developers another tool to create VR experiences." (newsshooter.com)
- Wes Plate Joins Apple as Product Designer - this
Newsletter doesn't generally follow the moving of talent from one company to another. But Wes Plate created the workflow software that allowed your Publisher to go independent in 2002 with Automatic Duck (along with the original Decklink SDI card). So he gets special treatment. (fcp.co)
- A-,M-,V- R: Are We There Yet? - "The shipments of computing devices gives you an idea of volumes that would be considered 'interesting' by the display manufacturers. On this scale, VR sales so far are basically non-existent." On the economic realities of getting worthy VR displays from today's mega display manufacturers. (displaydaily.com)
- Single Screen Icon: The Inspiring Success Story of London’s Lexi Cinema - "it’s rare to find an independent single screen movie theatre that is not only surviving but flourishing." It's a story
of generosity combined with good old fashioned smart programming. (celluloidjunkie.com)
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for a free 24-hour Test Drive. - [video] DaVinci Resolve: What Are The Key ‘Color Match’ Settings In ACES? - "setting up Color Match in ACES pipelines is remarkably simple and straightforward. Even the theory is rather simple . . . [which] mirrors the purpose of that workflow." (mixinglight.com)
- Is Perception Hurting Your Color Correction Business? - "[let's] discuss a few important areas that potentially affect a client’s opinion of you and your company, and suggest ways that you might think about changing up the way you do things, market yourself, or even simply talk to potential clients." (mixinglight.com)
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- [videos] 2017 Best Director Oscar Nominees - “these artists have truly demonstrated what it means to have a vision.” You’ll want to set a lot of time aside to watch all the interviews and BTS videos linked to
this blog. (premiumbeat.com)
- Editing John Wick Chapter 2 - “Cutting action is certainly a skill, but a lot of it just comes down to feeling out the right timing.” Editor Evan Schiff in conversation with UK-based editor Jonny
Elwyn on cutting fast-paced, meticulous action sequences, handling the stress of a big budget movie, and how to prepare for the job interview. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- Room Acoustics - "Neil took time from his busy schedule to answer a few questions regarding home studios and what actions to take to mitigate some very common sound issues." You may not like some of his answers. (provideocoalition.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)
- 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 LCDs from FSI. Plus, I'll talk about the decision and execution of moving my grading business off the Mac and onto
Windows. Live + Streaming. Feb. 20, 7p Eastern. (orlandoedits.com)
- [webinar] Intro to Mocha VR: 360 Video Post and Effects - "Mocha VR is a groundbreaking new 360/VR
post-production toolkit" for Adobe, Avid and OFX hosts. Thursday, February 16, 1pm. Register at the link. (attendee.gotowebinar.com)
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- [video] Honest Trailers: John Wick (meet Jim Wicks) - your Tao of Color Managing Editor loves a good action flick now and then. Hey, who doesn’t love popcorn! Right?! John Wick Chapter Two just hit theaters, and just in time
for its release the folks at Screen Junkies released this honest trailer for the original. (youtube.com)
- [video] Does the Camera Really Add Ten Pounds? - or, is it just a myth? The SciShow explains why photographs don’t necessarily reflect reality. (youtube.com)
- [video] No Other Way To Say It - If you've ever sat through a Voice Over session, this one will grab and keep your attention. Funny. (vimeo.com via studiodaily.com)
- [video] White Trash Washing Machine: The Devil Went Down to Georgia - with our apologies to the Charlie Daniels Band, comes a new rendition of his
signature song. Playing in a laundry room near you. Funny, but probably not in the way intended. (youtube.com)
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- [review] On the Road with Final Cut Pro X and a LumaForge Jellyfish, Again! - "the combination of the Jellyfish, the NFS filesystem, the Retina iMacs and FCPX provided just about the fastest location edit system you can buy (or borrow!) It makes other similar setups using ISIS & Adobe Premiere systems look like they are back in
the 90’s using SCSI drives." (provideocoalition.com)
- [Case Study] Avid NEXIS | PRO - "The three story industrial building houses 36 Media Composer editing suites, 20+ Media Composer logging
workstations, 15 Pro Tools editing suites, 10 DaVinci Resolve digilab workstations, 1 DVS Clipster mastering suite, 3 grading suites (4K and HDR capable) and one grading DCI cinema". With Avid storage connecting them all. (provideocoalition.com)
- RED Rocket-X & Helium: Render, Render, Render - does the GPU in the 2016 'new' Mac Pro qualify as a high-performance GPU' that will accelerate the performance of a RED Rocket-X? (dorkinatent.com)
- Premiere Pro 2017, Intel Core i7 7700K & i5 7600K Performance - "it might not seem fair to compare the i5 7600K to the more expensive i7 CPUs, but considering the price difference between the i5 7600K and the i7 7700K is only around $100 it is actually a very valid comparison." Interesting results. (pugetsystems.com)
- More Details on Samsung 2017 Q7 & Q8 4K UHD QLED TV’s - "this year’s QLEDs still rely on LCD panels and LED lighting to produce pictures. However,
the LEDs have been redesigned and repositioned to fire from multiple angles instead of using a single trajectory from full-array backlighting and edge-lit LEDs." But how much of the DCI P3 color gamut will they cover? The answer is in the article. (hdguru.com)
- Sony Reveals Prices On 2017 4K Ultra HD XBR TVs, UHD Blu-ray Player - but no word yet on the pricing of their consumer OLED. (hdguru.com)
- Four USB 3.1 Gen2 Ports + Four USB 3.1 Gen2 SSDs = 2000MB/s - for all you benchmark geeks out there. (barefeats.com)
- AKiTiO Node Thunderbolt 3 eGPU connected to 'late 2013' Mac Pro - "[will it] work on the 'late 2013' Mac Pro cylinder? And if so, what effect would it have on performance for GPU intensive applications even if limited by the Thunderbolt 2 bandwidth?" (barefeats.com)
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- Enhance Button: Google Brain creates new image details out of thin air - "Google's software, in short, basically means the "zoom in... now enhance!" TV trope is actually possible." Scary good. (arstechnica.com)
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- Kodak: Super 8 Returns this Spring - "Combining the classic features of Super 8 with digital functionality, the KODAK Super 8 camera is designed to put the unique look of the format into the hands of a new generation." (provideocoalition.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
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