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- [podcast] Peter Doyle: Meet the Colorist - he's color graded some of the most popular films of all time, including the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, the Harry Potter films, and The Matrix. Listen as he goes one on one with Josh Petok, CSI in the Colorist Podcast. (mixinglight.com)
- DI Colorist Joe Gawler On ‘Arrival’ - "We did a preliminary pass through an almost locked picture, with incomplete VFX. He and I had a few days to balance and vibe on some ideas, hoping that we'd be able to come back a couple of weeks later to finish the movie." An interesting interview. (studiodaily.com)
- HDR: An Introduction - "What is HDR? Why does it matter? Will it last? And how should we handle it? Kevin Shaw casts some light onto the brights and
darks of this tech." (finalcolor.com)
- Colorist Gregory Reese On Color Grading a 360 Film - "we introduced grading to see how the creature, characters and environment would hold up to some pushing and pulling. From there, it was a lot of back and forth on technical and creative decisions for how to best to tackle certain
things, some in CG, some in the comp, and others in the grade." (themill.com via Jelle Helwig)
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- Neat Video v4.5 Update - enhanced tools for more accurate profiling and better filter tuning, along with improved GPU compatibility and support for new editing applications. Free upgrade for the holders of Neat Video 4 license. (neatvideo.com)
- [review] Official Guide to Editing in DaVinci Resolve 12.5 - "the step-by-step theme is throughout the 198 pages. Mixing Audio, Applying Transitions and Changing Clip Speed are all easy to learn step-by-step guides just like all of the chapters in this book." (provideocoalition.com)
- [video] Blackmagic Fusion Text As Particles - "a technique for using 2D text to generate particles in Blackmagic Fusion 8, allowing text to be manipulated and animated in intriguing ways." (studiodaily.com)
- [review] Digital Anarchy's Samurai Sharpen - "it includes sophisticated masking in order to restrict the part of the image to be sharpened" (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- Assembling a 16 Episode Game Show In 30 Minutes (with FCPx) - "Brian Cassin goes into great detail about how he efficiently edits a gameshow . . . using FCPx and Lumberjack to pre-edit a season of High School Quiz Show, he
saves hours, if not days of edit time." (fcp.co)
- [forum] Easy DCP, Final DCP Or Something Else? - an interesting discussion about the various DCP creation softwares and various opinions on them. (liftgammagain.com)
- CalMan 2016 Version 2 Released - release notes on new features and improvements, including support for more meters and improved HDR workflow. (liftgammagain.com)
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- [video] The Oscar’s Voting Process - Ever wonder why more intense, artistic films tend (in general) not to win Oscars, while safer movies do? It's all in the voting process. (youtube.com)
- Apple To Roll Out Original Video
Programming - "unlike its competitors, Apple does not have a devoted video platform, so it plans to create original content for its Apple Music streaming service that can be viewed on Apple TVs, iPads, iPhones." Isn't an Apple TV a 'devoted video platform'? Anyway, click through for details on their first series, titled to ensure anyone over 40 won't bother watching it. (etcentric.org)
- What To Expect From Pilot Season 2017 - "the major trends for next season appear to be procedural crime solvers, military dramas and family-themed sitcoms." Plus reboots, reboots and more reboots. (campaignlive.com)
- The Great Wall: To 3D Or Not To 3D - if you're planning on seeing this epic Chinese-American co-production, should you spend the extra cash on the 3D version? (cinemablend.com)
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for a free 24-hour Test Drive. - [video] Surveying Entry-Level, Mid-Priced and High-End DIT Carts - "Don’t be fooled, the Cart is an extremely important tool for a professional DIT… for reasons we talk about in this video. Rich explains the value of the cart and the various bits and bobs you want to have—if you want to be an asset to the on-set team." (mixinglight.com)
- Day 1 of My Feature Grading: Getting Started - colorist Dan Moran, CSI shifts gears from his normal commercial and music video work - to work on an indie feature. He's documenting his process. (mixinglight.com)
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- Editing John Wick 2 - “Bringing up script problems in an interview isn’t always the right choice, but in this case (the director) valued the honesty and the insight.” Honesty and openness got Evan Schiff got
job - his first major feature film as an editor. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
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- Flanders Scientific & Colorist Patrick Inhofer Talk Displays - 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)
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- [video] Tom Hardy Grunt Counter - just like the title says. Someone stitched together a supercut of the actor’s grunts from his BBC series, ‘Taboo.’ For the record there are 72. Click the 2x double time option under
settings to get a rather different effect. (youtube.com)
- [video] Evolution of Music - 2,500 years of music in a nearly 20 minute supercut. To paraphrase Bob Dylan, The times (and the music) have been a-changin.’ Which decade are you? Fun. (youtube.com)
- [video] Duck Vs.(à l'orange) Sumatran Tiger - a
duck taunting a tiger. Tempting fate is one great way of entertaining the guests. (youtube.com)
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- Intel’s New Chip is Very Fast and Very Expensive - “A 24 core processor with 60MB of cache that runs at 2.4GHz, with a maximum clock speed of 3.4GHz.” Oh yeah, and a price tag of only $8,898 US. (theverge.com)
- Samsung and SpectraCal: Q Series TVs Support AutoCal - "Not only will CalMAN automatically adjust color settings on Samsung’s latest TVs, it will add color volume measurements to its toolkit."
(avsforum.com)
- Can You Replace Your iMac 5K With A MacBook Pro and LG 5K Display? - the headline says it all... (barefeats.com)
- Yes, You Can Afford To Get Into 3D VR Video - earlier this month—in addition to the 3D-capable Insta360 Pro and Hubblo VR cameras—we saw the launch of 3D cameras from LucidCam and TwoEyes, as well as 3D audio support from the Vuze camera.360 degree" (newsshooter.com)
- How I Recovered From My $3,000 MacBook Battery Bummer - "it took six weeks of tech support calls, power usage monitoring and Genius Bar diagnostics,
but I'm finally convinced my new MacBook Pro isn't an expensive mistake." (cnet.com)
- How Much Faster Is A Modern Workstation For Adobe Lightroom CC 2015.8? - "how much of a performance gain you might see if you were to replace your 2,
3, 4, or 5 year old workstation with a new one? To try to answer this question as objectively as we can, we decided to directly compare five workstations using the highest end components over the past 6 years.." (pugetsystems.com)
- What LED Has To Do To Be Truly Disruptive - "the big bragging rights in LED have gone to those that can put the LEDs closer together, reducing the pixel pitch and starting to reach the kinds of sizes and resolutions seen on LCDs." (displaydaily.com)
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- 8i Demos Hologram Production with Mobile App - there are two things that were promised to me as a kid in the 70's that we'd have by the year 2001 and annoy me that 'they' were wrong... Flying cars. And holograms. This story is about the latter. (etcentric.org)
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- Who’s Brave Enough to Be a Test Pilot for Flying Cars? - wait. Is 2001 finally getting here, 16 years late? "However preposterous they may seem, these vehicles are—very slowly—edging closer to reality. That much is made clear by a series of new job ads: both Kitty Hawk and Zee.Aero are currently looking to recruit flight test engineers." (technologyreview.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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