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- How to Be a DIT - DIT Charlie Anderson talks about “his wisdom on how to make your way into the industry and rise through it’s ranks… That wisdom boils down to ‘don’t be a jerk‘, but as you’ll see, there’s a lot
more to it.” (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- The Science Behind Eye Color - there is more than meets the eye when it comes to eye color. Pretty neat infographic. And check out the famous anomalies. (framesdirect.com)
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- [review] DaVinci Resolve Panels - “I started my editing career in the era of linear editing suites, where dedicated control panels ruled.” So begins Oliver Peters review of Blackmagic Designs micro and mini
control panels and how they can help you drive your session “like a virtuoso pianist.” (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- [video] FCP X: Coremelt's Scribeomatic and Chromatic - " CoreMelt’s Scribeomatic will add cloud-based transcription services right inside of FCPX . . . Chromatic will operate a bit differently (as different as a traditional color grading tool can operate)
and add a few more tools to the mix." Video embeds of both upcoming plug-ins are included. (provideocoalition.com)
- Avid Everywhere Reached The Clouds - " Avid unveils major advancements across all product suites and extends MediaCentral Platform into the cloud, showcases end-to-end 4K/IP workflows, enhances immersive workflows and expands Alliance partner ecosystem." This post lists the major Avid
announcements at NAB 2017. (provideocoalition.com)
- [video] Avid Media Composer: Advanced Lens Flare 3D Tracking With Mocha - "Think you can't use the Mocha/PixelChooser with Lens Flare 3D? Think again." (vimeo.com)
- [video] After Effects Top 15: Introduction To Sapphire Deband - "Sapphire’s Deband eliminates any ugly looking banding in your footage. John will guide you through the parameters of Deband to demonstrate how to get
the most from this tool." (vimeo.com)
- Free Updated
DaVinci Resolve 14 Keyboard Cheat-Sheet - "This cheat-sheet is mainly an editing focused cheat-sheet but I also added the Color and Nodes menus this time but I had to make them smaller to fit everything in two pages. Feel free to download, print and pass these along to anyone that might find them useful." (provideocoalition.com)
- [video] Here Are 5
Simple Color Effects You Can Do In Adobe Premiere Pro - "If you're just starting out, these color effects are not only super easy to pull off, and don't require any plugins." (nofilmschool.com)
- Post Magazine's Picks for NAB 2017 - "list of products, technologies and news that we all agreed had shown an
impressive amount of innovation, as well as captured the most attention and interest at the exhibition." (postmagazine.com)
- [video] Michael Cioni: Do I Have Stockholm Syndrome with Apple? - "With the recent announcement from Apple about the upcoming MacPro, many Apple fans rejoiced. Michael posts that now is the time to gather the crowd and push for
Apple to tend to the needs of the post production professional." (fcp.co)
- Magic Bullet Suite 13: A Closer Look At Denoiser III and Cosmo II - "Magic Bullet Suite 13 certainly gives you a lot of very useable software and the ability to not only colour correct and colour grade, but also add noise reduction and do things like smooth out skin with Magic Bullet
Cosmo." (newsshooter.com)
- New Color Workflow and Processing Pipeline For RED Cameras - "RED’s new Image Pipeline (IPP2) is a complete rework of the original and will improve almost all aspects of working with RED cameras and post producing the images." (redsharknews.com via Rich Roddman)
- (Almost) Everything You Need to Know About NAB 2017 - "PVC writers were covering the event from near and afar which allowed us to detail more of the event than ever before." A wrap-up of their coverage. (provideocoalition.com)
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- J.J. Abrams Says Closing Theatrical Window Is ‘Inevitable’ - the filmmaker plugs a pay platform for watching first run movies at home, striking a blow against going out to the movies. “In making those remarks, he was wading into a thorny debate about collapsing theatrical
windows and allowing moviegoers the chance to pay a premium for home viewing of first-run films.” (variety.com)
- Tech Potential and Promise Of CinemaCon 2017 - " If we presume that it will be years before there are multiple hundreds of DolbyVision systems and that IMAX maintains their numbers, that leaves 165,000 other cinema screens with a choice…and are left to define
the higher quality niche that they need to fill and to market." A post about the questions unanswered. (celluloidjunkie.com)
- Netflix Dominance Pushing Studios To Earlier Release Window - "the Netflix pressure is behind Hollywood studios’ decision to push the issue of an early release window, most likely 45 days after films’ theatrical debut. This issue has long been a bone of
contention between the studios and theater owners, but the two groups are “finally discussing a compromise.” But their proposed pricing leaves this colorist scratching his head. (etcentric.org)
- The Mac Pro Lives - an important post you've probably already heard about - but the Newsletter hadn't covered yet. (daringfireball.net)
- Defending Apple - “There’s no bias. Only the right tool for each job or client.” Russel Fairley owns a boutique post-production house that is “pretty close to half Windows, half macOS.” No Mac-bashing here. Russ makes the case why Apple still matters to professionals. (redsharknews.com)
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Test Drive. - Colorist Podcast Episode: 011 Dave Abrams - "We take a break from talking with a colorist to focus on something quite a bit more technical. Dave Abrams, monitor calibrator and owner of Avical, joins me on this episode. It’s about to get seriously geeky, and in the best possible way." (mixinglight.com)
- From The Grading Room: Are We Sterilizing Images?
- "With the ability to change every aspect of the image in the grade are we sterilizing Images by giving into clients demands? . . . I’m regularly told to lift faces, push products to within an inch of maximum brightness and sharpness and generally making quite dull images." Dan then breaks down a recent job. (mixinglight.com)
- [free] Exploring the DaVinci Resolve Mini Control Surface
- veteran color Marc Weilage used the Mini on a 2500 shot feature. This article lists shortcomings plus how he effectively navigating around missing features. (mixinglight.com)
- [free] DaVinci Resolve 14: First Look - "I had the pleasure of working with many talented demo artists and Blackmagic team members at the Blackmagic booth this past week, where I worked showing off many of the amazing new features of Resolve 14. That
experience got me thinking about what really stands out in Resolve 14." (mixinglight.com)
- DaVinci
Resolve 14: The Mythical Collaborative Workflow Has Arrived - "with Resolve 14 – and its Collaborative workflow – has post production’s flying car suddenly been realized? Not as the hobbled together and bolted on appendages we’ve become used to but as an actual, seamless workflow?" Your Newsletter Publishers posits that Blackmagic has finally cracked the Studio workflow. (mixinglight.com)
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- Walter Hill, The Assignment - “I’ve always loved post. After the madness of shooting, it gets you back to a civilized life.” Legendary director/screenwriter Walter Hill on waiting nearly 40 years to make his
latest film, ‘The Assignment,’ and working with colorist Claudio Sepulveda on DaVinci Resolve. (postperspective.com)
- Lighting 103: Use Gels To Tune Your Home’s Lighting - "there is a green spike in the color spectrum of the cheap LED. And I absolutely hate that. That green tinge is not exactly going to help me relax at the end of the day. In fact, I'd go as far as to call it headache-inducing.
But color ain't nothing but a number. So let's fix both of those things." Great post! (strobist.blogspot.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) Mexican Slang with Salma Hayek - learning Spanish? Time to take your formal lessons to the next level. You can’t go wrong at least knowing
someone’s telling you to, well, you’ll see. . . (youtube.com)
- Fast and Furious Soap Opera - “these films are ludicrous in the best way.” A fan appreciation of all things fast, and on four wheels. (vice.com)
- [video] Everything wrong with Dr. Strange - Cinema Sins is back with everything wrong with the Marvel film in just 15 minutes. Spoiler
alert. (youtube.com)
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- Radeon Pro Duo for VR Content Creation - " the Radeon Pro Duo is the the world’s first dual-GPU graphics card designed for professionals . . . gives professionals the flexibility to divide and conquer their workloads, enabling smooth multi-tasking between
applications by committing GPU resources to each." (provideocoalition.com)
- 4K Ultra HDTV Price Promotions Likely Fewer and Cooler This Year - "The reason for the apparent pricing reset and backing off promotional discounting (at least temporarily) stems from tight supply and LCD panel prices that continued rising into the January/February period”. More
details at the link. (hdguru.com)
- [benchmark] Angelbird 8TB SSD WRK XT and Wings X2 SSD Carrier Board - "Solid State Drives are 'the thing' but we are often frustrated with the limited
capacity. Angelbird aims to fix that with their new 8 Terabyte SSD WRK XT drive. In addition, they are releasing the Wings X2, a full-length PCie card that can be used to mount two of the 8TB SSDs inside your Mac Pro tower or Thunderbolt expansion box." (barefeats.com)
- Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti HOF Limited Edition GPU - an extremely overclocked GPU. But really, it's in here so you can click through and look at the image of the three fans cooling this thing. Maybe this item should
have been put in Fun(nies)? (anandtech.com)
- Panasonic EZ952 &EZ1002 Get UHD Premium & THX 4K Cert - "Before receiving an UHD premium badge, a TV needs to fulfill a set of criteria including resolution, peak brightness, colour bit-depth and DCI-P3 gamut coverage, some of which have been
updated for 2017 to prevent manufacturers from “cheating” the tests. Panasonic also remains the only major TV brand to continue pursuing certification from THX." (hdtvtest.co.uk)
- [forum] NAB and New Monitors? - "for those of you that went to NAB, did you see anything new in the color critical monitor world for $7k or under? I've been thinking a FSI but wanted to wait and see what NAB showed. Did FSI show anything new beside
that new big one? Or any other monitors?" A good discussion ensues. (liftgammagain.com)
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- Startup to Introduce Holographic TV Technology - "The goal is to create a TV set that can project a 3D hologram into the living room, with the further-off goal of enabling the user to touch it." (etcentric.org)
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- 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)
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- Digital Cinematography: Fundamentals,
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