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- Compare to Get Better - "I also realize there will always be someone better than me no matter how far I get. So I will always seek those people out..." How to analyze yourself and learn to help you get better at your craft. (fstoppers.com)
- [video] Strange Continuity: Why Our Brains Don't Explode at Film Cuts - ever wonder why we don't pick up mistakes in continuity and film editing? Learn why we are way more time blind than you
might think. (youtube.com)
- The Post-Production Process of 'IT' - "one of the most unique aspects of the film’s grading was how the film changed once the initial trailer premiered." The editing workflow, color grading and thought processes behind the all-time horror box office success. (premiumbeat.com)
- Understanding Tonal Values and the Importance of Contrast - getting back to basics. (premiumbeat.com)
- X-Rite Color Eye: Color identification, Not Color Measurement - "A unique solution that uses a smartphone and calibration card to help consumers shop for new items that accurately match or complement the color of items they
have at home." It's here because it's kind of interesting. (insights4print.ceo)
- [video] An Introduction to HDR Video - in this developer session, Apple does a pretty good job of explaining
the basics of the technical side of HDR for its new iPhone X and Apple TV 4K. Both devices support Dolby Vision and HDR10. You must click through in Safari to watch this video. (developer.apple.com via Kevin Shaw)
- Colors Are How Your Brain Makes The
World - what do 'yushnus' and 'shandyes' have to do with the work you do? Click through dear Tao reader for the answer that will take you all the way from your color suite up into a remote area of the Amazon. (wired.com)
- The History of ARRI - to celebrate its centenary, ARRI launched an interactive historical timeline. Watch hundreds of interviews with world-famous filmmakers. (100.arri.com)
- [video] Ridley Scott Breaks Down His Favorite Scene From Blade Runner - "Genius!" The famed director describes how Douglas Trumbull helped create in-camera effects for the scene where the replicant Rachel meets Deckard. (youtube.com)
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- Simple Color Grading for Photographers - "A basic understanding of color theory is all you need to explore color grading..." The Bob Ross of the photo app ON1 walks you through the basics of a "simple tool used in a sophisticated way..." (provideocoalition.com)
- Free Video Packs: 120+ Free Video Overlays, SFX, and LUTs - Premium Beat's 3rd annual freebie week of giveaways. (premiumbeat.com)
- DaVinci Resolve 14’s Three Auto Save
Functions - "While this article primarily addresses new users of Resolve, there’s something here for users of all levels..." (premiumbeat.com)
- [review] Blackmagic’s Fusion 9 -"while some Fusion users had expressed concerned that Blackmagic was favoring Resolve, in fact it is now clear that the Fusion development team have been very busy indeed." Busy doing what? Click through for an update and first impressions. (postperspective.com)
- How to make someone look ill without makeup (in DaVinci
Resolve) - we think the headline explains this. (premiumbeat.com)
- [video] 3 different types of LUTs that filmmakers use (and how to use them) - overview. (nofilmschool.com)
- [Review] Digital Anarchy Transcriptive - automated transcription for Adobe Premiere Pro. For the finishers in the audience. (provideocoalition.com)
- FCPX Proxy Editing: Relinking external proxies and temp media - a workaround for a hole in the FCPX feature set. (fcp.co)
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- How Many Viewers Are There Really? - instead of overnight ratings, Britain's Sky TV wants to focus on binge-viewing numbers to get an accurate read of viewership. Sky says the industry is "underselling itself." (variety.com)
- VR Guidelines from the VRIF -
"the Virtual Reality Industry Forum (VRIF) has published a set of draft guidelines for virtual reality (VR). The version for public comment was placed on-line on September 13th and can be downloaded for free." Click through for the download link and a summary. (displaydaily.com)
- Pay TV providers ready new native 4K UHD offerings - "significantly more native 4K Ultra HDTV content may be coming soon through a cable or telco TV operator in your area,
thanks to a series of technology trials under way by more than 30 U.S. pay TV providers." (hdguru.com)
- 4K and Ultra HD: Everything you need to know about the hot new resolution - "at the end of the day it might not be the raw resolution of 4K that tempts you into your next TV purchase, but the inclusion of other cool technologies like High-Dynamic Range, Quantum Dot and OLED panels." (johnnybtech.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. - When to sell yourself short (explained with cats) - guest contributor (and accomplished post-production professional) Katie Hinsen: "I get asked a lot, when it might be okay to take a low-paying job, or “sell yourself short”. I have a holistic approach to the value of an opportunity, that includes three forms of “payment". It's in front of the paywall. (mixinglight.com)
- Grading Challenge: Beauty Grading
Brief - "in this Insight I’m going to issue a very tough challenge for beauty grading . . . Beauty work is hard and very time consuming but with practice can become an oddly fun area of grading with lots of problem-solving and creative solutions." (mixinglight.com)
- Surviving (and finishing) a 1000 shot project in 2 days of less - "three thousand six hundred and thirty-one. That’s how many shots I’ve graded over the past 9 days . . . On average
I have about 60-90 seconds (at most) to color each shot! . . . I’d like to share some strategies and things to think about when it comes to tackling (and surviving) high shot count projects with short schedules." (mixinglight.com)
- Revisted: Color Charts and DaVinci Resolve 14’s ‘Color Match’ Function - "after additional testing – I realized that rather than simplifying our workflow… the
workflow seems completely dependent on the shooting conditions and the chart you’re using. Different charts may require different workflows." (mixinglight.com)
- Colorist Inspiration: September 2017 - "the ‘Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial’ HPA award nominees have been announced, and it’s heavily dominated by the colorists at Company 3 . . . I’m incredibly jealous of these grades because in my heart I would grade more in this style like this if I could. This is because they all have a common
trait. They are dark." (mixinglight.com)
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- Bali: International Colorist Academy Summit - eight days. Seven different classes. Did we mention... Bali. October 20 to 29, Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia (eventbrite.com.au)
- Video Insight seminar - Morning
Session: Understanding the fundamentals of the latest advances in uncompressed content. Afternoon Session: All that is new in interfaces, compressed content, and distribution technologies. November 2 & November 3, In New York City by Tektronix. (eventbrite.com)
- Color managed workflow for film and TV productions - "Colour Management
Course is a certification-training program thatyreal world training on workflows, approaches and techniques as well as creative look development; Annual license for Colourlab colour science." November 6 & November 8, In New York City by Dado Valentic. (eventbrite.com)
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- [video] Meet the engineer preserving the last analog motion graphics machine - “From about ’75 to ’85, if you saw moving animation on TV, it was either shot a frame at a time on film — which took forever — or it came out of one of the 10 Scanimate machines that was ever built” Not funny. But fun, if you like this sort of thing. (scanimate.com via studiodaily.com)
- [video] Avocado Man - a short movie from summer interns at an animation house. Fun. (studiodaily.com)
- 7 Things you (probably) didn’t know about the Princess Bride - on its 30th anniversary. (youtube.com)
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- Toshiba announces 10 TB HDD - "based on the company’s new platform featuring up to seven PMR platters along with a 7200 RPM spindle speed and the company’s persistent write cache." (anandtech.com)
- Amazon Fire TV 2017: 4Kp60, HDR, Dolby Atmos, Alexa Voice Remote - get the details. (anandtech.com)
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- [video] Solo - the trials and triumphs of New York’s rising class of creative freelancers is the subject of this short film. Colorist Joe Wenkoff says, “I used Lustre and Flame to achieve the look.” Nice. (Editor’s note: Strong Language) (vimeo.com)
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- AI is getting a tryout in pro sports - "some pro-sports teams are exploring how machine learning, the leading form of AI, might help where Moneyball has fallen short." Cool story. (axios.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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