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- Kurosawa Color - a trained painter, he helmed 24 films before his first color film in the early 1960s, "Explore the use of color and painting in the cinema of Akira Kurosawa." (nowness.com via Omar
Godinez)
- The Electronic Side of Color Media - Moving from black & white television to color required, at least initially, discs, spirals, tricolored filters, and a lot of mechanical stuff. Put on a pot of coffee for this trip down memory lane. (provideocoalition.com)
- Why Color Workflows Matter - “Designing a
precise color workflow during pre-production can save motion picture projects time and money.” Francesco Giardello (Game of Thrones, Ben-Hur, Thor: The Dark World) is a pioneer using ACES on-set. Interviewed about designing his set-to-post workflow for the movie, Life. (digitalcinemareport.com)
- 5 Tips to help the Colorist/DP relationship - “It’s all about building relationships, it doesn’t happen easily you have to work at it.” Like the title says. The colorist’s POV from
Warren Eagles, CSI. (redsharknews.com)
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- Endcrawl + 4k = ♥︎ - "Our 4k rollout comes on the heels of extensive testing. We ran no fewer than thirty-seven 4k pilot projects for films from Netflix, Sony, and Filmnation. So if you’d like to take Endcrawl for a spin, you’ll be in excellent company." Learn about the newest service from one of the Sponsors who bring you this Newsletter every week. (endcrawl.com)
- [video] Differences between luminosity and color blend modes in Photoshop - “They are actually polar opposites of each other but can be used to separate the data in any of our base layers.” At the 5 minute mark, watch what happens when gradient maps are introduced - good stuff for colorists. (fstoppers.com)
- Transcontinental color collaboration - detailing the Baselight workflow on a VFX-heavy commercial that linked two post houses 2,000 miles apart in
Canada. (filmlight.ltd.uk) See the commercial here: (youtube.com)
- [video] DaVinci Resolve 14 New Resolution Support - Alexis Van Hurkman shows you “two somewhat obscure …but significant improvements” with frame rates up to 120 frames per second and canvas size up to 16k x 16k pixels. (youtube.com)
- [video] Advanced Sky Replacement - “with sky replacement you want to be sure to use track points that are as far back as you can.” Tutorial on the new Match Move effect in DaVinci Resolve 14. It'll help if you already understand Resolve. (youtube.com)
- Begun, The Codec War Has - "if the only way to have One True Codec today would be to standardize on VP9, well, let’s face it: there is no way in hell Apple would ever allow a core part of its business depend on a Google-controlled technology". Interesting read on Apple's adoption of h.265, why it didn't happen sooner and the risks behind Google's solution.. (subfurther.com)
- [video] How to Clean up Noisy Footage in After Effects - "without the need for any additional software or third party plugins." (nofilmschool.com)
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- Sanitizing the Movies Draws Fire - “Days after Sony announced a plan to offer sanitized editions of its films — the versions shown on airlines and broadcast TV but not otherwise available — the DGA is voicing displeasure.” Or as Seth Rogan tweeted, “Holy s**t, please don’t do this to our movies.” (hollywoodreporter.com)
- What percentage of European box office income goes to local films? - a follow-up to the article that asked the same question about the US market. (stephenfollows.com)
- Netflix Double Subscription Base in 5 Years, Surpasses Cable - crazy. The numbers are impressive.Remember when they just delivered DVDs? (etcentric.org)
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- Building an 8K HDR DIT System - “I can’t quite get my head around the maths on this. Why shoot 1080 60P, up-convert to 4K60P before stitching together the 8K, instead of just shooting in 8K? They no doubt had their reasons.” A Japanese company picks up the challenge of 8K HDR video for a global technology client. This is how they did it. (redsharknews.com)
- 10 Must-Follow YouTube Channels for Filmmakers and Video Editors - like the title says. (premiumbeat.com)
- How fake are nature documentaries? - getting the images are the easy part. Recording sound? A different story entirely. (kottke.org)
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- [streaming] 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 22 - 24. (ppw-online.com)
- Bali: International Colorist Academy Summit - eight days. Seven
different classes. Did we mention... Bali? Even we are thinking of attending. October 20 to 29, Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia (eventbrite.com.au)
- Free Course: Retro Resolve - "Here’s your chance to download and watch the world’s first DaVinci Resolve online color correction classes using both the 2K Plus and Resolve 6, first released in 2007. It’s lead by Warren Eagles." (fxphd.com)
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- [video] Title Drops - like the name says. For new cinephiles, a title drop is when the name of a film is said in the film. The impressive part comes fitting 150 examples into a mere 3.5 minutes. Fun. (vimeo.com)
- How and Where To Watch the Solar Eclipse In August - "Are you doing anything on Monday, August 21? If not, maybe you should plan a short vacation. There will be a total solar eclipse that day, passing over the entire continental US". But only a 70-mile swatch will get the full eclipse. Find out where you need to be. (lifehacker.com)
- [video] The Wrath of Goldfish - after decades of toilet bowl funerals, the tiny goldfish is getting its revenge. Just click the link and watch the destructive power in the fins of the fish. (vimeo.com)
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- [review] Panasonic TX-65EZ1002B OLED - "key strengths include unrivalled colour accuracy, highly configurable motion sharpening, and the most balanced HDR10 tone-mapping we’ve witnessed on a consumer OLED to date." At a price. (hdtvtest.co.uk)
- [review] LG OLED55C7V 4K OLED TV - "prospective buyers will be pleased to know that its picture quality should be very similar to the step-up E7, G7 and W7 SIGNATURE series of Wallpaper TV, since all of them use the same WRGB OLED
panel and SoC (system on chip)." (hdtvtest.co.uk)
- [review] Samsung QN65Q7F QLED - "What we found was a set with a beautifully sleek design, hairline bezel trim, slick cable management, rich and vibrant colors, respectable black level, strong image processing, motion
handling and 4K upscaling." (hdguru.com)
- 2017 iMac 5K’s Pro 580 GPU versus previous iMac 5K and GeForce GTX 1070 - like the title says. (barefeats.com)
- Intel & AMD: The 2017 CPU Wars - "sometimes there are technologies and products worth waiting for... so are these new processors going to be worth the wait?" (pugetsystems.com)
- Teradek Sale: Save 20% on Bolt Deluxe kits & Bolt Sidekick II - for our on-set friends. (newsshooter.com)
- Convergent Design adds 2K 240fps RAW from Varicam LT and Avid DNxHD - with new firmware.(newsshooter.com)
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- QR codes are dead, unless you do something clever with them - orunless you're one of the 1.38 billion living in China. I'm amazed at how QR codes have completely permeated their cities, going way beyond the examples in this article. (insights4print.ceo)
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- [video] Brighter Yesterday - color graded by Sean Coleman at Company 3. A short film imagines how the world would be affected by ‘The Neil Armstrong Of Time Travel.’ (youtube.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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