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- The Basic Properties of Color - You can’t walk the talk unless you know the vocabulary. A good primer for the Tao reader just starting out on their color journey. (premiumbeat.com)
- [video] Does Resolution Matter? - DP Geoff Boyle asks if image resolution is as valuable as you think? (youtu.be via Marc Wielage)
- [video] How 'Wonder Woman' Uses Color to Tell a More Dynamic Story - does the latest DC Comics tentpole use color effectively? Or is it just another dark drab DC Comics film? A good treatment of this topic. (nofilmschool.com)
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- Multi-tasking Throttling: Hot-Fix on Mac OS X - "with this fix, you can render and transcode at the same time, as well as deal with multiple copies of .ari files if you need to." DITs: We're looking at you. (dorkinatent.com)
- Netflix Production and Post-Production Requirements - delivering your project to Netflix? You need to bookmark this. Like the title says. (backlothelp.netflix.com)
- [video] Color Contrast with Hue vs Hue Curves - DaVinci Resolve tutorial. For beginners. (youtube.com)
- [videos] Avid Media Composer First: Released! - "the heart of Avid Media Composer is here and while there are limitations make no mistake; this is a real version of Media Composer running on your Mac or PC … for FREE." Scott Simmons does a great job running down the highlights, with several useful video embeds. (provideocoalition.com)
- Manage Project Files and Assets Online in the Creative Cloud - "if you have an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, then you have available cloud storage you may not know about." (premiumbeat.com)
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- PSA: The $100,000 Tax Credit Typo - "New York State has two separate film tax credits. Getting them confused could cost you—a lot." (endcrawl.com)
- Hollywood Audits China’s Box Office Stats - “China has become an increasingly important source of revenues for major studio blockbusters… (but) remains a source of frustration for studios…” (variety.com)
- HEVC and HEIF Will Make Video and Photos More Efficient - to be added later this year on the Mac desktop and iOS, "While you may never have heard of
HEVC or HEIF before, both are attempts to solve a set of problems related to video and still images." A fantastic look at the codecs of today, yesterday and tomorrow. (tidbits.com)
- The Effect of Brexit on the UK Film Industry - "I’m going to summarise four positive and four negative likely effects of Brexit, based on
what we know today." Based on an official report and independent research. Includes a link to the 89 page detailed overview of Britan's film industry today. (stephenfollows.com)
- Facebook Plans to Introduce Original Programs This Summer
- "the push for TV shows is part of a two-track effort at Facebook to up its game in video and target the tens of billions of ad dollars spent on television." And it includes a revenue share component for content creators. (etcentric.org)
- 2017 Mid-Year Studio Market Share Projections - "Can Disney hang onto its lead and make it back-to-back wins? Can one of the new micro studios crack the top 10? And can Lionsgate displace one of the six majors for the first time since 2013? Let’s have a look." (celluloidjunkie.com)
- Micron discontinues Lexar - the link offers a quick (recent) history of removable media brands, mergers and why Micron is relieving itself of Lexar. (provideocoalition.com)
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Drive. - [podcast] Resolve 14 New Features Training Title + Remote Rendering - Your Newsletter Publisher, Robbie Carman and Joey D'Anna talk about their upcoming training title. Then they answer a member question, tackling the meaning of 'Remote Rendering'; a discussion that gets pretty deep. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Dust Busting: Removing Dirt In Resolve - "When researching this insight I discovered the dust busting [tool] has a hidden contextual menu that I have never ever seen in my life of grading
in Resolve." (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Is Your ARRI Alexa Mini Color Pipeline Properly Set for ACES? - "When you start working in different color spaces you MUST have confidence in your workflow. If you don’t have confidence
then when mistakes happen you’ll start to question every choice you’ve made." Learn how to get confident in ACES with ARRI workflows. (mixinglight.com)
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- [video] How to manage Post Production (Part 1) - DP's talk about what happens after the shoot has wrapped and the project goes to post-production. (youtu.be via Marc Wielage)
- Never Ask for Artistic Permission - "Imagine if Alfred Hitchcock asked, 'Is it okay to kill off my lead actress in the first act?'" (filmmakeriq.com)
- How to Survive Being Stuck in Traffic with Small Kids This Holiday Weekend - hopefully, this advice doesn't come too late for you! (offspring.lifehacker.com)
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- 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] Samsung Official TVC: Ostrich - the Tao HQ just saw this commercial for the first time this week. Awesome. Fun. (youtu.be)
- [video] Sticking Together, No Matter What - on the
weird-o-meter this commercial for a Japanese product is definitely off the scale. Sit back, soak up all the screaming and see if you guess the product being sold? Fun. (youtube.com)
- [video] How to Build The Ultimate Smartphone Projector - like the title says. A DIY project you can do with the kids. (youtube.com)
- [video] BTS:
Opening Car Chase Scene in John Wick 2 - “the way this gag originally was laid out…” A cool breakdown of how they pulled off the opening car chase sequence with Keanu Reeves behind the wheel. (youtube.com)
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- Expert: New TVs Require Separate Day And Night Calibration Settings - this study has a corporate sponsor but the data about viewing habits at home is interesting. (hdguru.com)
- Mac Pro Towers can run Pascal GPUs - in case you missed the news. How much faster are these rigs running now? Get the numbers at this link. (barefeats.com)
- Premiere Pro CC 2017 CPU Comparison: Skylake-X, Kaby Lake-X, Broadwell-E, Skylake, Ryzen 7 - "we won't be able to look at the entire Skylake-X line-up today, but what we can do is see how the CPUs that are currently available compare to Intel's previous generation CPUs as well as AMD's Ryzen 7 CPUs." They run exporting, stabilization and other common tasks to generate their performance benchmarks. (pugetsystems.com)
- AJA Releases Desktop Software v13 - " introduces
new HDR features including support for Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), enabling HDR 10 and HLG playout from Adobe Premiere Pro . . . 12-Bit/BT.2020 support in Apple Final Cut Pro X". Good stuff for non-DaVinci Resolve users. (aja.com)
- Should you use a Dual Xeon for Premiere Pro CC 2017? - the
answer is clear. (pugetsystems.com)
- Blackmagic Video Assist and Video Assist 4K Summer Special Prices - they chopped the price of the 4K nearly in
half! But hurry. Supplies are expected to run out quickly. (newsshooter.com)
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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)
- 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
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