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- This is your Brain on Art - "Our brains like to share emotions with others. This is just one reason that seeing a live performance — a concert, play, opera, etc. — is a neural rush." The connection between the craft of art and the science of your brain. (washingtonpost.com)
- [video] The Case for Black and White - once color film took over, black and white filmmaking fell out of fashion. Using Film Noir as an example, this video argues that the craft of black and white filmmaking does things
that color can’t. (youtube.com)
- Rory Gordon: Meet the Colorist - colorist Rory Gordon talks about working in a high-end boutique post facility. "My job is help make the show into the best version of itself it can be, and that doesn’t happen without great creative direction." (postperspective.com)
- Fix your TV settings before watching ‘Stranger Things’ Season 2 - "If you're wanting to watch Stranger Things as the Duffer brothers intended, Matt says "The key thing is to turn off anything that says 'motion.'" Reading this article
should seem like a familiar discussion for everyone reading this Newsletter. (exclaim.ca)
- Lighting 103: Developing a Framework - "Think about the
reasons behind the color of your lights, and your palette will often take care of itself." Yes. Please! (strobist.blogspot.com)
- Is 1.0 delta E a ‘just noticeable difference’? - "This is the third blog post in this series about the measurement of color difference. To recap, here are the two previous, contradictory explanations about the unit of measure of color difference." (johnthemathguy.blogspot.be)
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- [video] Using the Color Balance Tool in Photoshop - "It's a very fluid process where you add one color and you have to take away another color until you get to this point that looks good to you." Photo retouching using the color balance tool in PS. (youtube.com)
- [video] Photo
Editing with LAB in Photoshop- LAB is designed to approximate human vision by splitting the colors of your image into 3 channels: Lightness, and A and B for the red-green axis and blue-yellow axis" (youtube.com)
- [video] Orange and Teal Technique (in DaVinci Resolve) - just in case Michael Bay walks into your color suite and says, you know, “need you to give me some...” (youtube.com)
- [video] Cinematic Look Using Lumetri Color - in Premiere Pro. To get past the introductions and the basic 101 about scopes, the tutorial about Lumetri begins at 4:42. (library.creativecow.net)
- WHEA_Uncirrectable_Error on Gigabyte x299, Skylake-X & Premiere Pro [Solved] - "Many users are currently experiencing a WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
(BSOD) when using Adobe products on the Gigabyte x299 motherboard and Skylake-X processors." One possible solution. (pugetsystems.com)
- Telestream announces quick turnaround Auto-Transcription Service - like the headline says, for your finishers out there. (studiodaily.com)
- Apple Emails Users: Final Cut Studio (FCP7) is Finally Dead - "Final Cut Studio programs will no longer launch in macOS upon the release of High Sierra. It is the official end of FCP7." More details at the link, if you need them.(premiumbeat.com)
- [video] Switching from Final Cut Pro 7 to DaVinci Resolve - "Seizing the opportunity, and who can blame them, Blackmagic Design has put out a video to help editors move from the world of ancient relics, Final Cut 7, to a more modern
world found in DaVinci Resolve." (provideocoalition.com)
- Create Your Own DCP in Resolve 14 - "Resolve is my go to application for doing this, and I use it on every DCP project that I create." (provideocoalition.com)
- Create ProRes on Windows - "...at the very least creating a ProRes file of a work in a process to send your Mac based clients is easier to do at a great price." User review with a link to download the program. $35USD (24p.com)
- Collaborative Workflow in FCPX with Final Cut Library Opener - well, it's a rather loose definition of 'collaborative'. (fcp.co)
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- [podcast] Home Theater Geeks: HDR Deep Dive - "color-imaging scientist Jack Holm digs deep into high dynamic range. Topics include color volume, what artists might do with an expanded palette of colors and brightness, the actual dynamic range of most images, accurate versus preferred images, the difference between PQ and HLG HDR formats, the "look" of HLG
. . . " Great discussion. (twit.tv)
- Amazon Prime Members may soon top pay TV Subscribers - k-razy. (etcentric.org)
- SMPTE joins International Project Creating IMF Spec for Broadcast and Online - "The goal is to implement a system that addresses the myriad metadata requirements of television and OTT while fitting into broadcasters’ sizable existing archives of content." (studiodaily.com)
- Hollywood Archivists can’t outpace obsolescence - "Studios invested heavily in magnetic-tape storage for film archiving but now struggle to keep up with the technology." (spectrum.ieee.org 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. - Gamma 2.2 vs Gamma 2.4: How, Why and When (in DaVinci Resolve)? - "What color & gamma settings should I use in FCPX & Resolve when it’s going either to the internet or onto DVD’s?" (mixinglight.com)
- Thinking like a Colorist: The ‘Final Grade’ - "I have been doing “Final Grade” sessions my whole career and totally forgot they are probably strange to most people that don’t work in commercials and possibly even people that don’t worrk on commercials in London." Why DCPs in London probably mean something different than you think. (mixinglight.com)
- Is Magic Bullet Looks 4 Fast Enough for Client-Attended Sessions? - "Is the new GPU-aware Magic Bullet Looks 4 fast enough to keep a color grade
session moving? In the process we take a look at several new features in Looks 4 that long-time users will find welcome." (mixinglight.com)
- Grading Challenge: Reviewing my car brief - "In
this insight Dan is reviewing your efforts on his car brief and also sharing his attempt at the shot to show his approach to the grade." (mixinglight.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)
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- [video] Independence Day: A Star Wars Story - a fan-made mash up showing that Star Wars and Independence Day have a lot more overlap than you might have thought. (youtube.com)
- Netlix's
Creative Legal Department - a cease and desist order from Netflix’s attorneys to a small company cashing in on the Stranger Things brand. Clever. Apparently at Netflix “creativity is valued across the company." (adweek.com)
- [video] Why Does the Wind Howl? - nothing fun about going through a hurricane, but this Hurricane Irma, but now that it’s over, "to get a certain sound all you need is air vibrating at the right rate." For us who work at the Tao, that vibration was called Hurricane Irma. The sound of the wind like a freight train is still
planted deep in our minds, and this explains why the wind howls so creepy. (youtube.com)
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- The Most Powerful PC on The Planet - HP makes a big claim about its new Z8 G4. But. "The small print in HP’s press release admits that that statement is based on a number of factors… that it last checked 3 months ago.” (redsharknews.com)
- How to activate ‘Night Shift’ and Apple’s secret ‘Inverted Colors’ Mode in iOS 11 - and conversely, deactivate it. (lifehacker.com)
- Blackmagic Design announces Ultimatte 12 - read this summary of the press release to learn how amazing it is. (provideocoalition.com)
- Review: Teradek Serv Pro and Vuer - "the two combined form a wireless monitoring system for any production that needs to show a feed to multiple people and doesn’t want the bother of running cables." (provideocoalition.com)
- [review] Cherry G80-3493 MX Board Silent Mechanical Keyboard - "rather than being a wholly new design, it's a new iteration on a classic design . . . it is a keyboard that has been designed for workspaces . . . and for applications
where reliability is of the utmost importance." (anandtech.com)
- Cinematography Tip: The benefits of using a Light Meter - "A light meter is an essential tool to properly expose your scene, play with contrast ratios, and even test your camera’s dynamic range." (premiumbeat.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
book. (amazon.com)
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