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- This Newsletter is back from our annual August hiatus!
- And as I type this, the Tao Southern Command (manned by Jim Wicks) is being buffeted by Tropical Storm winds. And in about 15 hours, Tao HQ (in Orlando) is
expecting about the same.
- It's going to be a long 36 hours.
- And
it's been a long week of preparation.
- Unlike Jim Wicks, your Tao Newsletter Publisher has only been living in Florida for 3 years and our 'hurricane closet' of survival goods is still being built up.
- So it's been a week of stocking water, food, sandbags, ice and watching storm tracks.
All that is to say:
- I was hoping to compile and share the Summer Reading List you all sent me at the start of August.
- That list will have to wait until
Hurricane Irma is a memory.
- I expect there will be a Newsletter next Sunday. If not, blame it on Irma and we'll be back the following
week.
Happy Grading!
- patrick
P.S. - The IBC Colorist Mixer is less than a week away! If you can make it to Amsterdam, then on September 16 get together with other color pros and chill with your peers. We wish we could be there with you! (Evenbrite.com)
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- Log is the New Lin - "There are many misconceptions about Cineon files and the color spaces known colloquially as log and linear. The first is that Cineon files are stored in a log color space. It’s not that this is entirely false, it’s just that it’s not that simple." In this oldie - that recently found its way on our radar - filmmaker Stu Maschwitz
explains it all to you. (prolost.com)
- [video] How Your Brain Decides What is Beautiful - is beauty in the eye of the beholder? "These beauty detectors ping every time we see beauty regardless of whatever else we might be thinking. We also have a 'beauty is good' stereotype
embedded in our brain." (ted.com)
- How Color Vision Came to Animals - "new technologies, like portable hyperspectral scanners and cameras small enough to fit on a bird’s head, are
helping biologists see the unseen." Seeing the colors as nature sees them, that is. (wired.com)
- Capturing Okja - "behind the camera with DIT Dan Skinner on making Netflix's Okja" (codex.online via Rich Roddman)
- The Uncertainty Principle of Visual Color Evaluations - "you can not be (completely) objective in visual color evaluations if you know that you are evaluating colors." The alternate log line: Quantum Mechanics Meets Color Evaluation.
(insights4print.ceo)
- FilmConvert Competition - did you grade a job using FilmConvert? Their annual competition is now open. Submissions are accepted until October 9, 2017. (filmconvert.com)
- [training] Color Theory: Essentials for Color Mixing - do not pass this online video tutorial series because it is designed for painters. As a digital colorist it will help you learn "the power of complementary colors and why they are so valuable," and develop a deeper understanding of color
relationships. Inexpensive. (artistsnetworkuniversity.com)
- Killer Tips for DaVinci Resolve is Having a Birthday - the downloadable tutorial app is updated for DaVinci Resolve 14. The app is free to download from the App Store and Google Play. Introduced one year ago, the Premium Pack of additional tips are available for download at 30% off until Monday September 11. (onlinecreativetraining.com)
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- DaVinci Resolve 14.0 Final! - DaVinci Resolve 14 is out of Public Beta and now shipping! If you've been holding off because it was in beta, you may want to hold off until the next update or two and allow it to 'solidify'. (blackmagicdesign.com)
- DaVinci Resolve 14 Training Roundup -
like the title says. Because, “Keeping pace with all of this change, as a working colorist, junior colorist or colour grading editor is an equally demanding challenge. But thankfully, for a fistful of dollars, you can have someone explain it all to you.” (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- Color Grading with the BMD Micro Panel - this is the panel that doesn't have the extra displays. (filmmakermagazine.com)
- [review] Paragon NTFS for
Mac 15 - native performance for accessing NTFS Windows drives? Click through to find out. (macworld.com)
- Light Iron Folder Structure - a Mac app to quickly create folder structures for DITs. (dorkinatent.com)
- ParaShoot: The Safe(ish) Card Eraser App - get an alert if the
card you're about to erase wasn't offloaded! (dorkinatent.com)
- RSYNC - do you use DaVinci Resolve’s disk cloning tool? You might want to try the free, open-source command-line utility available across Mac, Linux, and Windows. "Though it’s most commonly used by IT professionals, it’s highly relevant for filmmakers. DITs, data wranglers, and post-production professionals." (medium.com)
- Chromatic - "Chromatic is the most feature-rich color correction module currently available for FCPX. It offers four levels of color grading, including inside and/or outside of a mask, overall frame, and also a final output correction." Oliver Peters. (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
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- 7 Steps to Network Successfully in Hollywood - "It’s not what you know. It’s who you know." Empire editor Robert Hardy passes on life lessons learned climbing the career ladder to editing dramatic TV shows and features. (blog.frame.io)
- An Investigation into Factors Affecting 3D Visual Fatigue - this study focused on viewing distance. Interesting. (displaydaily.com)
- How far in advance are film trailers
released? - "there were significant differences by genre, with the earliest trailers being for movies aimed at families and traditionally expensive genres such as adventure and fantasy." (stephenfollows.com)
- LCD Fab coming to the US - "Foxconn is planning to build a new campus that will include an LCD fab in Wisconsin in the USA, the first major LCD plant to be built outside Asia." Why Wisconsin? Click through to find out. (displaydaily.com)
- Netflix is not the problem - “Here's a troubling article that says movie attendance is going down mainly because theaters suck, not because of the popularity of Netflix…” (indiewire.com via Marc Wielage)
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The stories featured in this section are from MixingLight.com, companion color correction membership website to TaoOfColor.com and paid sponsor of this Newsletter. Want to read a story listed here but not a member? Sign up for a free 7-Day Test Drive. - [video] How to neatly wire your Sit-To-Stand Desk - making your color grading (or editing) desk look Professional, with a word about monitor mounting arms. (mixinglight.com)
- [podcast] Choosing ACES or Resolve Color Management + adjusting Grading Panel sensitivity - team Mixing Light tackles two questions from its members. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Selecting gaming keypads, keyboards and computer displays - part 3 in the Ergonomics series on designing a human compatible grading desk. (mixinglight.com)
- [videos] Colorist Inspiration: August 2017 - "Dan is turning 30 and shares his work from across the years to show how his grading has evolved and improved year after year." (mixinglight.com)
- [video] RED’s IPP2 Pipeline in Resolve (Sort of) - "I discovered that in Resolve 14 (currently), IPP2 is mostly implemented but has one large crutch – and in this Insight, we’ll explore what IPP2 is, its benefits and how to
(mostly) implement the workflow in Resolve." (mixinglight.com)
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- Premiere Pro Best Practices: Image Scaling - an essential tip for editors sending their timelines to a colorist. Seriously, this info needs to be shared with every Premiere editor you know! (linkedin.com)
- Lighting 103: Use Color to evoke time and place - "It can be scary to add a lot of color to your light. But it's easy to underestimate how much color it takes to transform a scene and set a mood. Don't be shy. Those gels won't bite." Yes. Please. Capture it on-set! (strobist.blogspot.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)
- Classic Course: Fields & Interlacing - "Improperly handled fields are still making their way onto TV today. Here’s a free course to understand them, and handle them properly." (provideocoalition.com)
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- Evolution of My Understanding of Color Over Time - "What if what *I* see as blue, *you* see as a slightly different blue because you're using Chrome instead of Firefox and despite a decade of messing with profiles we STILL can't get this right somehow." (xkcd.com via Jim Houston)
- Hurricane Food #2: A Taco shell made out of BACON! - Hurricane Food #1? Twinkies. (lifehacker.com)
- The coolest movie theater in every state - one of those annoying slideshows... but worth the clickbait anyway. (cosmopolitan.com)
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- 2017 MacBook Pro: Performance of 5 model compared - like the title says. (barefeats.com)
- LG Launches New ‘B7A’ lower-priced 4K UHD OLED TV
Series - wider sales channel, no Dolby ATMOS support. (hdguru.com)
- AMD Radeon Vega graphics cards explained - "Those who just started reading about Vega may be slightly confused about the existence of so many
Vega-powered products. I thought that a chart like this may be helpful to you. Meet the family of Radeon Vega." (videocardz.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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