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- Colorist Stephen Nakamura on grading Stephen King’s It - "One of the concepts about the look that evolved during production, and we continued it in the DI, was this idea that a lot of the film takes place in fairly high-key situations, not the kind of dark, shadowy world some horror films exist in." (postperspective.com)
- [video] The Stunning Evolution of Color in Film - "in the past you only had the option with film to make it brighter or darker or red or green or blue." Steve Scott, VP of Theatrical Imaging, Technicolor is featured in a
short video produced by Wired magazine. The five-minute video traces the evolution of color. (youtube.com)
- [podcast] Alexis Van Hurkman Part 2 - “I had never considered myself a colorist. I had putzed around with color, but mainly, you know, RGB sliders. Nothing serious. I always thought color was for the special people that had mystical abilities." Alexis Van Hurkman, CSI, talks with host Josh Petok, CSI about how writing
increased his color knowledge and skills.(mixinglight.com)
- [video] What League of Legends Looks Like to Colorblind Players - "There are a number of different types of colorblindness, but the most
common types boil down to red-green colorblindness and blue-yellow colorblindness, conditions where one of our three color processors isn’t working correctly. " An effective demo of colorblindness. (blitzesports.com)
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- Light Illusion: IBC Show Specials - save up to 20% on Jeti and Klein probes, up to 50% on LightSpace CMS calibration software, and more... (lightillusion.com)
- Why DaVinci Resolve May Be the Single Most Powerful Tool in Post - Everyone’s talking about Resolve as an NLE, but that’s not why it’s exciting. (blog.frame.io)
- FilmLight Baselight 5.0 - "Offering over 50 new features, version 5.0 has been comprehensively put through its paces over the last year on a variety of real projects with complex workflows." Latest version released for IBC 2017. (filmlight.ltd.uk)
- Adobe SpeedGrade CC is Dead; Long Live Lumetri Color - it's now officially End of Life. This article is a quick summary on the end state of SpeedGrade.
(studiodaily.com)
- Professional Color at Adobe: Past, Present & Future - the product manager for Premeire Pro and former COO of Speedgrade about why SpeedGrade was killed and how Adobe thinks the Lumetri panel
breaks the barrier between edit and color. (blogs.adobe.com)
- Reduce Unwanted Skin Shine in Post-Production with Davinci Resolve - simple and often effective. (premiumbeat.com)
- Overview of updates to the Creative Cloud Video apps - a quick look at the biggest features being released with IBC in the main Creative Cloud apps. (provideocoalition.com)
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- Cutting the Cord #1 - viewing online video jumps 34 percent. "The increasing shift to online viewing video is a global trend..." Click through for a breakdown of where viewership is increasing. (provideocoalition.com)
- Cutting the Cord #2 - "In 2017, 22.2 million U.S. adults will cut the cord on cable, satellite or telco TV service — up 33% over 2016." And click through for a breakdown of where viewership is decreasing. (variety.com)
- It’s Alive!! - the Hollywood box office that is. Steven King's creepy clown obliterates box office records and not just for horror movies. IT has
broken a bunch more box office records. (celluloidjunkie.com)
- HDR / WCG TV messaging is going to
be a mess - if you watch the section of Apple's keynote address this week for the Apple TV 4K, you see this messaging mess in action when Apple's Eddy shows the impressiveness of High-Dynamic Range - using Wide
Color Gamut images. Pick the keynote up at 41:35 to see what we're talking about. UGH! (displaydaily.com)
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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. - Grading Challenge: Follow my Brief - "At the very bottom of this article, there is a link to some demo footage, my text brief and also some reference images. I want you to grade the shot and post either a still or a link to a moving version. I’ll then give you feedback as a virtual client." (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Design Essentials: Another perspective on suite design - "after watching Pat’s insights, I wanted to add to the conversation that he started. So in this Insight, I’ll give you a brief tour of my suite, and talk a bit
about why I laid it out the way I did, and about some of the input devices, furniture, and equipment I chose." (mixinglight.com)
- A modern approach to Cold-Calls (for Post Pros) -
"Over the past decade, a significant trend from voice communication (phone calls) to text-based (SMS, email, chat) has been well-documented. In business, it has another advantage, the ability of the recipient to take note on their terms, and not be annoyingly interrupted. Cold-calling isn’t dead, it’s just not an actual phone call anymore." No login necessary to read this Insight, in front of the paywall, from Guest Contributor Katie Hinsen. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Eye Training: Diagnose and Compare - "In an effort to try and help train your eyes I thought I would kick off a series that is based on training your eyes with some focused exercises." (mixinglight.com)
- [video] DaVinci Resolve 14 Public Beta 7 and the Redesigned Preferences - "The release of 14pb7 brought about a fix to a problem I’ve long griped about in my trainings on Tao Of Color and Mixing Light – the problem of User Preferences getting mixed in with Project Settings." An overview of the completely overhauled Project and System
preference settings. (mixinglight.com)
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- LumaFusion – an iOS NLE because "As Apple’s iOS platform becomes more powerful, applications for it begin to rival the power and complexity of desktop software." (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- The science of why eyewitness testimony is often wrong - " in 70 percent of the cases where DNA has overturned a conviction, it also contradicted the testimony of one or more eyewitnesses to the events at issue." Human
perception is a squirrely thing. (arstechnica.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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- 38 Wonderful Moments In Closed-Captioning History - like the title says. Lots of funny moments to choose from, but one of our favorites: number 25. (buzzfeed.com)
- [video] Calling The 'IT' Department - what happens when you call the information technology department and IT shows up? Funny. (youtube.com)
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- [review] Kaleidescape Strato 4K Player - "if you are a videophile looking for the best Ultra HD Blu-ray player the industry has to offer, you might not want an optical disc player at all, but, rather, a movie player based on hard drive storage." (hdguru.com)
- PCI-Express 4.0 Standardized Soon - and version 5 two years later. Click through for the roadmap and data rate improvements. (videocardz.com)
- Oh, No! More on OLEDs - a look at current OLED yields for large displays and how the costs are coming down to (maybe) match LCDs. (displaydaily.com)
- Logitech’s G613 ‘Lightspeed’ Wireless Mechanical Keyboard - with reduced lag, for keyboard afficiandos. (anandtech.com)
- Logitech launches the MX Ergo Trackball - is it time to take another look at a trackball for your input device? This one can control two CPUs and can be adjusted to fit your hand. (anandtech.com)
- Making the Case for Buying an Uninterruptible Power Supply - for the uninitiated. (pugetsystems.com)
- Core i7 7820X vs Core i9 7900X: Do PCI-E Lanes matter for GPU rendering? - " sometimes cards which are capable of running at a higher speed (like x16) may run at a slower speed (x8 for example)
because of other limitations within the computer. The question that can naturally arise from this situation is simple: does that reduction in speed actually lead to lower performance? And if so, how much is lost?" (pugetsystems.com)
- Canon DP-V2411: New 4K reference display - "display
reaches peak luminance and full-screen white luminance of 600 cd/m". Canon says the display is for 'color confirmation' so I'm not sure where 'reference' comes into play on a 600 nit display... (provideocoalition.com)
- Apple unveils Apple TV 4K media players - "apple used its press conference Tuesday to introduce the new Apple TV 4K in two versions, both supporting 4K
3840x2160p resolution streaming video for the first time as well as both Dolby Vision and HDR10 high dynamic range." (hdguru.com)
- OLED, Shmoled: LCD Makers Trying Many Approaches to WCG - OLED has been getting a lot of love recently. But LCD makers aren't sitting on their heels. (displaydaily.com)
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- ASUS, Colorful and MSI showcase their mining graphics cards - in case the color grading thing doesn't work out. (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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