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- Publish from NAB at Las Vegas, that is.
- This year we wanted to, but couldn't. That's why we didn't ship last week.
- The big news
for readers of this publication... DaVinci Resolve 14.
- Interesting news is Baselight and Mistika building their markets, differently.
- There's too much to fit in one Newsletter, so expect stories from the past two weeks to pop up in the next few editions.
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- Meet the Colorist - “Brimstone was shot on ARRI Alexa XT full-frame raw with ARRI Master Anamorphic primes. We used a full ACES EXR workflow for the VFX, and I graded in ARRI Log C wide gamut.” Martin Klein, who graded the motion picture talks about his workflow and
dialing in the look of the film. (studiodaily.com)
- How to Redesign an Airline - "we had several versions of black: How black is black? Is it cold black? Is it warm black? When we were looking at the
tones that we could use on the plane we had to work with Boeing, with the Boeing colors and they’ve got quite a small palette." An interesting interview. (99u.com)
- On HDR Displays and Grading - "in case you're not familiar with the idea of a High Dynamic Range display,
it's—get this—brighter than a normal display. That's it. This groundbreaking idea apparently needed about four competing standards, one from Dolby, the sound company. Now there's a fifth." Stu Maschwitz isn't a fan of HDR. Find out why. (prolost.com)
- ASC Looks at HDR and Preserving the Cinematographer’s Vision - "And the panel noted that, aside from the high cost of HDR displays, there is a real issue with fatigue when an editor or colorist is staring at a 1,000-nit or brighter screen all day long." From a NAB roundtable. (studiodaily.com)
- The Benefits of Spec Work - "on spec work, there is normally a little more room to go outside the box and push the boundaries since there is really nobody to answer to other than who is in the suite." (robbessette.com)
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- SGO in Growth Mode: New Mistika Products on the Way for Mac and PC - “We are slicing parts of the product into specific new products that are small brothers of Mistika, but with exactly the same native foundations to address specific industry needs" (studiodaily.com)
- Get Powerful Color Tools for Free from Baselight - "Baselight has come up with a simple solution to allow students to execute on projects without watermarking: you can do a full, clean render,
but only to H.264, not to ProRes 4444 or similar master quality formats." (nofilmschool.com)
- Blackmagic Design NAB 2017 Announcements and Updates - "Cheaper DaVinci Resolve, Bluetooth for URSA Mini Pro, and Waveforms on the 4K Video Assist". A
general round-up of what BMD announced this past week. (provideocoalition.com)
- DaVinci Resolve 14 Is Now an Audio Console - this pithy post hits all the highlights that had Resolve users buzzing. (studiodaily.com)
- Five Killer DaVinci Resolve 14 Features - a good rundown with deeper insights written by one of BMD's featured demo artists this year, Steve Hullfish.
A good explanation of what's important to understand about DaVinci Resolve 14. (provideocoalition.com)
- [video] How to Correct Color in Premiere Pro - a short video that covers the basics of color correcting in the
Lumetri color panel “which can give you very intuitive graphical feedback on the color content of each frame and allow you to see how your corrections are modifying the spectrum in real time.” (fstoppers.com)
- FlimLight Baselight STUDENT - free if you register to become part of the Baselight Learning Program, and limited to H264 and JPEG images renders. Otherwise, it’s “a fully functional version of FilmLight’s Baselight color grading software--with GPU rendering--that runs on any supported Mac platform.” (shootonline.com)
- Avid Enters The Free Nle Market - the Media Composer | First is a "simple-to-use editing toolset with many of the same features and functionality that award-winning Media Composer editors rely on, in a new powerful, streamlined interface. With four video tracks, eight audio tracks". (provideocoalition.com)
- Final Cut Pro 10.3 Tutorial Roundup - a roundup of working with the latest version of Apple’s NLE. There’s lots to read and watch. Tao readers may be interested in the epic 5-part Off The Grid series using the FCPX-RED-Resolve
workflow. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- [video] DaVinci Resolve Database Security - “In this tutorial I’ll demonstrate how an attacker can gain access to a DaVinci Resolve database. And also show you how to protect your Postgres server
from attacks.” For the times we live in. (youtube.com)
- [Review] Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite - “color correction is a skill that takes a lot of time to hone. Unfortunately, as an editor you don’t have the opportunity to spend 10 hours a day honing the craft of color correction.” A review of MBL’s Looks 4 and Colorist IV for editors. (postperspective.com)
- Silverstack Lab Does All of Your On-Set Media Management Tasks in One - "DITs can now not only be confident in their data and color management, but also create dailies both for edit and for client review all on one
interface." (nofilmschool.com)
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- Resolve’s Threat to Media Composer - Philip makes the case that Resolve 14 is most directly competing with Avid. (philiphodgetts.com)
- Samsung and Amazon Video to Rollout HDR10+ Video - "What is HDR10+, you ask? It is the HDR10 standard augmented with dynamic metadata. In this case, Samsung’s dynamic metadata format as approved in SMPTE ST-2094-40. Three other methods for adding dynamic metadata to an HDR10 format are specified in the same SMPTE document."
Click through for the details. (displaydaily.com)
- The Cyber Threat(s) Facing Cinemas - this was published over a week before the news of Netflix (and other networks) being blackmailed to
prevent new episodes of popular shows being released to the internet as the result of a hack. (celluloidjunkie.com)
- Apple is over-thinking the Mac Pro - "If Apple wants to impress their professional customers they need to do two things: design their pro products
backwards by thinking about what their capabilities should be first and then thinking about their physical design, and do a better job of maintaining a dialogue with pro customers" (digitalrebellion.com)
- The numbers behind Netflix Original movies and TV shows - "The largest and most successful Streaming Video On Demand service is Netflix so I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the types of content they are commissioning, under their ‘Netflix Original’ banner. Let’s look at the movies first." (stephenfollows.com)
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- A Guide to Shooting HDR TV: Day 1 - "over the course of this [6-part] series, I hope to impart enough wisdom to help you navigate your first HDR project successfully. Each day I’ll talk about a different aspect of HDR, leaving the highly
technical stuff for the end." (provideocoalition.com)
- Teradek Serv: A New On-Set Monitor Solution for Directors - "streamline resources, safety, and set management by allowing crew members and directors to review footage on their phones. The
product broadcasts the image in HD over WiFi to iPhones and iPads, which can spare you the cost of renting a monitor." (premiumbeat.com)
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- Post | Production World Online - every year at NAB an educational conference runs alongside the main show. It features dozens of speakers addressing the entire spectrum of production and post production topics. For the first
time you can get a sample of that conference, interactively and online. June 1 - 3. (ppw-online.com)
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- [video] Silence of the Lambs as a RomCom!?? - take one of the creepiest movies, add an upbeat soundtrack and you’ve got a date movie? As a romantic comedy this could make you
question every dating experience you’ve ever had. (youtube.com)
- [video] Doorzetter op de baan - remember the old (early 2000s) tv series, Extreme Elimination Challenge? Contestants ran bizarre obstacle courses in a race against time. Here’s a clip in which the cameraman can't stop laughing as his friend is being destroyed by giant egg beaters. The camera guy's incredible laughter is
contageous. (youtube.com)
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- [video] Flanders Scientific shows its 10-bit HDR-capable monitors - "the 55" OLED HDR-capable display. The monitor allows you to feed a 12gigabit/sec SDI into it and 3G out of it with downconversion to HD for downstream monitors." This video includes a discussion of the BoxIO 12G
and their new ScopeStream. (nofilmschool.com)
- [video] GPU over Thunderbolt 3 - “the setup process isn’t exactly plug and play; it’s a bit of an arduous process. There’s also the matter of expense.” If those don’t concern you, this is an option for getting more power out of your
new MacBook Pro 2016. (9to5mac.com)
- Eizo DCI-4K Reference Monitor for HDR Workflows - “the monitor achieves the 1000cd/m high brightness level needed for [reference] HDR content display.
It can achieve a typical contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1 for displaying true blacks.” (postperspective.com)
- [video] Contour Design Rollermouse Red Plus - looking for an alternative to your mouse? This one is innovative and interesting. (provideocoalition.com)
- Hp Adds 31-inch 4k Dreamcolor And Improves 24-inch “Little Brother” - "I wanted to know whether the Z31x would also properly display the incoming framerate on its OSD (onscreen display), since prior DreamColor models have
not done it correctly at all framerates..." (provideocoalition.com)
- NAB 2017: Options Multiply in the Year of HDR - "everyone from camera manufacturers and display vendors to
post-production software providers scrambles to make sure all the pieces are in place for painless HDR workflow." (studiodaily.com)
- Three Premium 2017 LCD-TVs Plot Different Paths to Enhanced Performance - "All current approaches to improving LCD-TV color gamut and purity
involve improving the intensity and purity of the red and green light that is produced by the [backlight]". The differences between LG, and two of Samsung's approaches. (displaydaily.com)
- How about TWO eGPUs connected to one 2016 MacBook Pro? - "Since there are two Thunderbolt 3 buses on the 2016 MacBook Pros and we have at least two eGPUs, we figured "Why not connect one on each bus and see what happens?" (barefeats.com)
- SSD vs HDD: Responsiveness Comparison - just how much slower are 7200rpm and 5400rpm hard drives compared to SATA and M.2 solid state drives? Let's just say, get your boot drive off those mechanical drives, ASAP. (pugetsystems.com)
- [review] The Palette Gear for Video Editors - your Newsletter Publisher is an input device junkie. I've gotten lots of emails asking if I've ever tried the Palette Gear? I have not. But this
article explores using it for Premiere Pro. (premiumbeat.com)
- [review] Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box Review - a series of tests using preview hardware connected to the New Mac Pro and MacBook Pros with CUDA and OpenCL graphics cards. (barefeats.com)
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- [video] NAB 2017: Google Video Intelligence API - imagine having dozens of hours of footage and you need to sift it down to a few hours (or minutes) of selects. Now imagine uploading that footage to Google and letting 'the cloud' do the sifting for you. (provideocoalition.com)
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- Unroll.me: Heartbreaking - a quick post about the disingenuous reaction of the Unroll.me CEO after it was revealed they keep Amazon S3 buckets of every email you've ever written... to resell it to 3rd parties. (daringfireball.net)
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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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