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- Irwin Young: Film Processing History & Color Blindness - In a previous edition we mistakenly identified the owner of Du Art by the wrong name. He is Irwin W. Young. He's run Du Art Film Lab for most of his life. And this article is still fascinating. Hat tip--Dave
Pultz C.S.I. (categoryfivestudios.com)
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- [vIdeo] Color of the Month - “April’s Color of the Month has its roots in the jungle, becoming an adventurous, succulent hue guaranteed to grab attention.” So says the paint company, Sherwin-Williams. For the rest of us, it’s hex color# 675f2e. (sherwin-williams.com)
- Colorist Podcast - Dave Abrams, monitor calibrator and owner of Avical, geeks out about HDR, OLED, plasma, LCD monitors and the importance of
calibration, “if you’re just looking for a computer monitor for REC709 HD broadcast work, there’s a lot of options out there.” (mixinglight.com)
- The Big Bang: Color Noir on Film - from the DP of this indie film, " I think I had 7 different gel colors that
I restricted my choices to, then paired them as the scene dictated." Proving that color grading begins in pre-production. And the value of black in anchoring Looks. (shellyjohnsonasc.com)
- Colorist Extols Virtues of Using HDR on Netflix’s Marvel Shows - "Making use of these new
capabilities requires greater dialogue between a colorist and a cinematographer." Noticing a trend? (variety.com)
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- FilmLight v 5.0 - delivering v5.0 across its entire product range, bringing uniformity “and a consistent and familiar user experience, from the flagship Baselight colour grading and finishing system, through Baselight Editions, to Daylight and the new on-set application,
Prelight.” (filmlight.ltd.uk)
- Changing Speed in DaVinci Resolve - editing tips in DaVinci Resolve. “You can also create quite complex speed changes within the Resolve edit
interface by using the retime control.” (premiumbeat.com)
- Getting Rid of Video Noise - “Unfortunately — and
this applies to all three of the tested plug-ins — there is no way to save settings for a next noise reduction session to fix footage shot with the same camera.” Reviewing VideoDenoise, the new $49 noise reduction plug-in for Final Cut Pro X and Premiere Pro from CrumplePop. (redsharknews.com)
- Creating Colour Graded Dailies On Set with Silverstack Lab - "In this sponsored post from Pomfort, I got to take a sneak peak at the latest addition to their insanely feature-rich DIT software while it was still in beta." Details on the just announced release. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- LUT Gallery: Organise your LUTs - "Having the program right there inside FCP X speeds up your workflow and allows you to toggle between
different LUTs with the click of a mouse. I have hundreds and hundreds of LUTs and being able to group them into folders for the cameras I use allowed me to actually see and find LUTs I had completely forgotten about." (newsshooter.com)
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- Escape Rooms Feed Appetite for More Immersive Experiences - this is in here mostly because I find this form of entertainment fascinating. Apparently, it's catching on. (etcentric.org)
- CinemaCon: The Reality About Simultaneous Home & Theatrical Release - "many major studio chiefs have changed their tune about a high-priced video-on-demand window following theatrical 30 to
45 days after release" (deadline.com via Marc Wielage)
- THX Goes Small - "Late in March, THX launched a mobile certification program designed for smartphones, tablets, and laptops." (displaydaily.com)
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here but not a member? Sign up for a free 24-hour Test Drive. - [podcast] Mixing Light 2.0 Membership Changes & New Features! - the colorists behind color correction website Mixing Light gutted their entire website, stopped every auto-subscription and did a complete relaunch. This in-front-of-the-paywall article and podcast explains it all. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] DIT Essential Software: On-Set Metadata - in Part 2, DIT Rich Roddman C.S.I. shares his favorite tools for handling metadata and checking the integrity of the camera media. (mixinglight.com)
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- Recalling Preference Settings in Premiere Pro - “Using your Adobe Creative Cloud account, you can transfer settings and presets to any computer with Adobe Premiere Pro CC.” How to transfer your settings from one computer to another. (premiumbeat.com)
- Free Video Editing Software for Beginners - “The answers all depends on what you’re trying to do, right now, and where you’re looking to get to in the future.” A roundup of all the free apps for Tao readers who are just starting
out. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
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- [video] Stop Watch in Slo-mo - ever watch a digital stopwatch and try to keep track of the fast moving numbers? Are those numbers really sequential or do they skip a few digits? Hmm. The
answer in 3,000 frames per second. The race is on! (youtube.com)
- [video] Drone Trick Shots - we used to call shots like these, ‘outtakes,’ or, ‘one for the gag reel.’ Now it’s a thing. Apparently. Trick shots done by drones on the court, in the bowling alley, and beyond. (youtube.com)
- A Brief History of the Pencil - for some of us, reading something like this is... fun. (99u.com)
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- [review] Grading is transformed by new Blackmagic control surfaces - “This does for Resolve what the Wacom tablet did for Photoshop.” Because Red Shark never goes for the hyperbole. (redsharknews.com)
- [review] Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel - “One thing I was worried about when I began writing this review was questioning whether or not tying
myself down to one piece of software was a good idea. When you invest in the Mini Panel, you are wholeheartedly dedicating yourself to DaVinci Resolve…” (postperspective.com)
- New Monitors from BenQ - are you attending NAB 2017, and looking for color accurate monitors for your suite or post house? BenQ will demonstrate its new line of “Creative Series monitors for video, and introduce a new 27-inch monitor, PD2710QC, the world’s first design monitor to include a USB-C Docking Station for MacBook and PC
users.” (provideocoalition.com)
- Will The GeForce GTX Ti in an EGPU Speed Up Your 2016 MacBook Pro and 2013 Mac Pro? - what's left to say, other than... click through for the answer. (barefeats.com)
- MacPro Towers with Pascal GPUs - various configuration of Pascal GPUs in a 2010 MacPro tower. (barefeats.com)
- [Review] Blackmagic Resolve
Mini Micro Panel Packs Quality - besides the headline being wrong, I found the most interesting observation was at the very end of the article. And that has nothing to do with the panel itself. (nofilmschool.com)
- Hands-On Review: The Palette Gear For Video Editors - I'm a sucker for tactile add-ons like these.
(premiumbeat.com)
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- [video] Emerald Paint - very cool, paint as art. Produced entirely without CGI, the result is an advert that combines the pigment of paint with water and a Phantom camera shooting footage at 900 to 4,000 frames per second. No word on who the colorist was. But you hey, you know a colorist was involved. (youtube.com)
And check out the BTS video to better appreciate the technical mastery rolled into the 30 second spot. (youtube.com)
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- Focus On Color Day: Team Mixing Light - at NAB, your Tao Publisher with the other founders of MixingLight.com are giving a full day session on color grading (for the 5th year in a row). This time around we're doing a series of Case Studies to framework the teachings. And our Keynote Speaker?
Mark Todd Osborne, one of the most in-demand freelance colorists in the world! Session details will be fully updated soon, at the link. It part of the paid Post | Production World training event. (nab17.mapyourshow.com)
- Visit the LumaForge Workflow Suite @ Encore - "Our team will be showing off cross platform workflow on Mac, Window’s, & Linux machines running the latest NLE’s, VFX, finishing, and audio software. We’ll also have developers of some
of the most popular post plugins with us showing off their latest updates and apps." And bring your own gear to get some editing done. Registration required. (lumaforge.com)
- LumaForge On Stage: Faster, Together - separate from their Suite, "we’re rounding up all of our favorite people for three days of back-to-back, short and to the point, presentations and panels on all things post." Including your
Publisher demoing the Collaborative Workflow on DaVinci Resolve. Looks like a good roundup of presentations. (lumaforge.com)
- 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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- Dolby #SU1702 – Monday 4/24, Tuesday 4/25 and Wednesday 4/26 at 5pm-6pm
- FilmLight #SL3829 – Monday 4/24 at 11am – expect an
announcement that could benefit all colorists
- FSI #SL6328 – Tuesday 4/25 at 1pm – Talking about monitors for colorists
- S-A-M #SL1805 – Tuesday 4/25 at 3pm – Rio does HDR
- Blackmagic Design #SL216 – Wednesday 4/26 at 4pm – check out their new colorist control surfaces
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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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