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- Measuring the Blueness of the Sky - An obsessed young scientist from the middle ages invents a Cyanometer as he chases the question - just how blue is the sky as elevation changes? (atlasobscura.com via @katiehinsen)
- Film Processing History & Color Blindness - “Being colorblind made me very attuned to black and white images in the area of contrast and how it looked or if there were any defects or problems in the film.” 90-year-old film
legend Bill Irwin talks craft and history with Mitch Jacobson. (categoryfivestudios.com)
- Colorist Podcast: Warren Eagles, CSI - “drew back the curtain to the expensive color grading rooms that were almost impossible to gain access to.” Woz, who travels the world teaching color grading, sits down to be a guest on this edition of Josh Petok’s Colorist Podcast. (mixinglight.com)
- Colorist Deidre McClelland, CSI on A Few Less Men - “We worked really hard to enhance the warmth, but without creating a general wash of one color by strengthening greens and blues to help contrast.” Colorist Deidre McClelland, CSI, talks about her workflow using DaVinci Resolve on the motion picture, ‘A Few Less Men.’ (blackmagicdesign.com)
- Meet the Colorist: Yoomin Lee - “I used to monitor in the tape room what colorists did to the images and I was fascinated by it. It was like the process of painting - creating
light, contrast, mood and texture.” (filmlight.ltd.uk)
- Winners Of The 2017 SXSW Film Festival Awards - like the headline says. (nofilmschool.com)
- Color Inspiration In Nature - insects infused with a rainbow of hues. (colourlovers.com)
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- DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel Review - a very balanced review of this smallest of Blackmagic's new colorist control surfaces. With good advice if you're considering moving off your Tangents. (provideocoalition.com)
- DaVinci Resolve Micro & Mini Roundup and Review - Jonny Elwyn goes in-depth on BMD’s two new panels. Good round up and links about the Mini panel. He shares
personal experience with the Micro, with the best image subtitle on this subject that I've seen, "Now you can grade in a coffee shop, by a window.". (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- How To Create Masks In Adobe Premiere Pro - if you're new to this app then this is need-to-know. (premiumbeat.com)
- Q&A: Avid’s Matt Feury on State of the Art Avid 4K Workflow - "about how editors are working at high resolution in the Avid and what he sees driving demand for 4K workflow." (studiodaily.com)
- A Quarter Century For Premiere Pro - to celebrate 25 years of Premiere, "Imagine Dragons is offering total access to the raw footage shot from
their music video of Believer." Winnder gets $25k. Click through for details. (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
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- Key Terms for 360 Video - what's stereoscopic vs. monoscopic video? Pitch vs. yaw? Headset viewing vs. regular eyeball viewing? Vimeo opens its dictionary and its 360 video school.
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- The Busier You Are, The More You Need Quiet Time - seriously, true. (hbr.org)
- Five 4K/UHD Trends To Watch At NAB 2017 - headline says it all. (studiodaily.com)
- Netflix Is Dropping Star Ratings - for a simple thumbs up or thumbs down. (macworld.com)
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- Skin Tone Essentials: Hands, Arms, Legs and Feet - "I’ve been grading a huge amount of fashion this year from jeans commercials to the summer swimwear campaigns and I have spent hours and days working on things like red kneecaps,
purple hands and even green arms." Download the example clips to follow along with Dan's techniques. (mixinglight.com)
- DIT Fundamentals: The Heavy Duty Mobile Digital Download Kit - "The problem? As a DIT [Rich]
can only be in one place at one time. But if he’s booked on a job, why should he turn work away and tell a client, 'No'?" How this Kit is helping DIT Rich Roddman grow his business. (mixinglight.com)
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- Look Development with Prelight: Helsinki - showing FilmLight's MacOS look development app plus new features in Baselight. Helsinki: Wednesday 29 March, 2017 at Post Control. 18:00 - 21:00. (eventbrite.com)
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- Final Cut Pro Diary - “Clicking the chevron next to Color Board . . . opens up into a three-tab view, which the workshop instructor told me should be applied from right to left.”
Discovering that adjusting exposure & saturation is as easy as it is with photos (9to5mac.com)
- [video] Tension, Suspense, and Inglourious Basterds - “(the opening scene) is like a master class in suspense. At 17 pages it’s one of the longest scenes in the screenplay. But it’s so captivating that once I start it I always have to finish it.” How Quentin Tarantino built suspense into “Inglourious Basterds.” (youtube.com)
- [video] The Challenges of High-Speed Filming - the Slow Mo guys, a Tao
Newsletter favorite, turn the camera on themselves and get into the technical weeds to explain why high speed filming is so difficult. Interesting. (youtube.com)
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- [video] Where Will Color Take You? - in the latest installment of its ‘Color Chips’ campaign, Sherwin-Williams creates a
captivating African jungle teeming with bright, bountiful, beastly life. It took nearly 30,000 paint chips, 24 production artists working a total of 5,600 hours, to bring this majestic menagerie to life for 30 seconds. Colorful fun. (youtube.com)
- [video] Mean Bean - It’s surprisingly easy to make Mr. Bean look like some kind of crazed killer. Take
a look at what a little bit of editing and some scary music do. (youtube.com)
- [video] Sony Bravia W900 LED TV Advertisement - this spot is colorful. It's for a TV. But really, it's only here for the Willy Wonka song (from the original), and the Tao Treasurer is a YUGE Wonka fan. (youtube.com)
- [video] A (Fun) Video Lesson On Shutter Speed - this one made the rounds a few weeks ago... but it's still worth sharing. (nofilmschool.com)
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- [video] Samsung Unveils The Frame TV - a TV so flat that it's both a TV and a framed picture. "Inbuilt motion and light sensors allows the display to not only turn off and save energy when no one is present, but also adjust the
backlighting to make the art as realistic as possible depending of the ambient lighting in the room." (hdtvtest.co.uk)
- So, How’s That Mac Pro Working Out For You? - "It’s been a little over two months since I became that guy who actually bought a three-years-old-out-of-the-box Mac Pro . . . now that I’ve used it for two months, let’s take a look back at how it’s working out." A perspective from someone coming from a 2008 MacPro. (subfurther.com)
- Colour Grading Mac vs PC - "I’m glad I went down the route of getting a cheap computer and a top end monitor, instead of the other way around. I’ve had total confidence that what I’m seeing on the FSI monitor is accurate and I’ve been able to get around the shortcomings of the computer by using the render cache options in Resolve." Great
advice! Oh, and a good user report about building a PC for Resolve on a budget. (jamiedickinson.net)
- The Western Digital Black PCI3 NVMe SSD (512GB) Review
- digging deep into this M.2 PCIe drive. With mixed results. (anandtech.com)
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- 5th Annual NAB Colorist Mixer - it started with 25 people who only knew each other on Twitter, meeting at a bar in the bowels of the Monte Carlo. Five years later, we're 300 strong at the top of the Las Vegas in the Stratosphere Tower. Join us and mingle with your peers.
Newbie or veteran, creative or vendor - you are all welcome! (coloristmixer2017nab.eventbrite.com)
- The
Official Toolfarm Guide to NAB - updated for 2017, lists most events and vendors of interest to readers of this Newsletter. (toolfarm.com)
- 16th Annual Las Vegas SuperMeet - a classic staple of NAB attendees in the digital post-production space. Catch demos from vendors big and small and win in the mega-big raffle. Tuesday, April 25, 7pm. (supermeet.com)
- 20th Annual Media Motion Ball - "Attendees will enjoy a fine multi-course sit down dinner & dessert, mingling with their industry
friends & peers and also participate in the drawing for our huge prize pool." You're likely to find the Tao Newsletter staff here. (mediamotionball.com)
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- [video] Made in Chicago: Serek Basses - decades ago when he was a teen, your Managing Editor had musical aspirations. A multi-instrumentalist, his first love is playing bass. Which helps explain this week’s showcase. Watch a luthier make a bass guitar from scratch. Not exactly the same as playing to a stadium of screaming
fans. But the color is solid, and it’s oddly soothing and satisfying to watch. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. (youtube.com)
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- COLORFUL GeForce GTX 1080 Ti iGame features LCD display - "Why put LEDs [on a GPU] when you can put an LCD display instead? Well, Colorful did just that. This might be the most interesting feature on a graphics card in years, but has science gone too far?" (videocardz.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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