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- Colorist Podcast - "Much like Wayne Gretzky used to say, 'I like to skate where the puck is going.' And right now I'm doing a lot of work in HDR." So says Company 3 Senior Colorist Bob Festa, CSI. The award-winning colorist shares his view from a 30-year career to what's coming next. (coloristpodcast.com)
- [forum] Roger Deakins on colorists - "...the cinematographer is
responsible for the image from start to finish.” So said Roger Deakins, ASC, in a post on his website when asked, "who exactly is responsible for post as well color correction...is it (the) colorist or cinematographer?” That ignited a fiery conversation amongst colorists on Lift Gamma Gain. (liftgammagain.com)
- Meet the DIT - "Also, to be useful, the on-set grading needs to be easily modifiable in post-production. Not being able to change colour grading values separately in a LUT was a limitation not suitable for our objective." DIT Nejib Boubaker talks about his onset workflow and how it helps the colorist. (filmlight.ltd.uk)
- Meet the Colorist
- "You need to have the eye, the technical understanding and the ability to collaborate that makes a successful colorist." ‘Justified,’ ‘True Detective’ Colorist Pankaj Bajpai on the craft of grading. (filmlight.ltd.uk)
- The Power of Production Design - Lighting design has the strongest impact on the images a colorist can (or can not) craft. Or as colorist Rob Bessette CSI says, "lighting shapes what is in
the frame, but if there’s nothing interesting in the frame, then what good is the lighting?" Learn what else makes for interesting images - worth sharing with your favorite clients.. (robbessette.com)
- Blade Runner 2049 - "A number of the film’s sequences are color-coded, delineating them as separate worlds." (redsharknews.com)
- 12 Movies with the Best Color Cinematography of All-Time - "Roger Deakins does incredible things with color in "Blade Runner 2049," but he's part of a
longstanding tradition." Our fav: The Godfather Parts I & II (indiewire.com)
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- How to read Lumetri Scopes in Adobe Premiere Pro - a beginner's guide.(premiumbeat.com)
- [videos] What’s new in Sapphire 11 and Continuum 11 - with demos of the significant new features. (borisfx.com)
- Understanding Resolve’s built-in
film grain - an overview of this Studio-only feature. (premiumbeat.com)
- DaVinci Resolve acting weird while editing? - the fundamentals of Resolve's auto-select of tracks. (premiumbeat.com)
- DaVinci Resolve 14 Color Grading Tutorials - film editor and friend of the Tao, Jonny Elwyn has compiled another in-depth roundup of the web's "latest and greatest DaVinci Resolve news, tutorials,
tips and training courses." (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- [video] Retouching Skin in After Effects - in 5 easy steps. Because, more and more, colorists are being asked to more than just grade their client's video. (youtube.com)
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- Is a film’s length a sign of its quality? - "It’s hard to measure and quantify production rumours, poster chicanery and evasive interviews, but we can look at the correlation between running time and quality. To do this I looked at all movies released in US cinemas between 2000 and 2016" (stephenfollows.com)
- Netflix Plans 80 Films for 2018 - "Disney released 13 movies in 2016,” Warner Bros. “released 23 films and Twentieth Century Fox dropped 16.” Get some analysis at the link. (etcentric.org)
- Amazon, Netflix, MPAA go after TickBox TV for Infringement - how amoral companies justify stealing the intellectual property of others for their own profit. (etcentric.org)
- The cost of Samsung's LED Cinema screen - it costs twice as much an RGB laser projector. But how many sizes can you get it in? (celluloidjunkie.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. - Grade Rescue: Saving a DSLR moving portrait - "95% of the time I only grade Red, Arri or Film . . . I graded c300 for the first time in 3 years today and I struggled! . . . I thought it would be fun to kick off a new series where I tackle badly shot material and try and make it look as good as possible." (mixinglight.com)
- Colorist Podcast: Bob Festa - one of the most recognizable names in color grading "shares his skills, experience, and knowledge to the next generation of artists." (mixinglight.com)
- How to Calibrate your reference display: Part 1 - "Over several Insights we will take you through the workflow of calibrating your reference display using the two most popular commercial solutions for display calibration: CalMAN and Lightspace." In Part 1, learn
how to calibrate a high-end colorimeter, which will be used to calibrate several brands of reference displays. (mixinglight.com)
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- 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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- Here’s how to see the Orionid Meteor Shower this weekend - because it's cool. And fun. And it's this week. (lifehacker.com)
- 6 ways to make realistic fake blood - because it's that time of the year. (nofilmschool.com)
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- DaVinci Resolve 14 CPU Performance: Skylake-X vs Threadripper - "today we will be focusing on performance while exporting and more importantly FPS while grading in the color panel. Our testing includes 4K RED, H.264, ProRes 422, and DNxHR HQ footage as well as 6K and 8K RED footage." (pugetsystems.com)
- DaVinci Resolve 14 GPU Scaling Analysis - "While GPU scaling is our primary concern in this article, we will actually be testing with two platforms and
four different CPUs. The CPUs we chose should give us a great range of processing power to see if anything changes with a more or less powerful CPU." (pugetsystems.com)
- Nvidia Pascal GPU in eGPU now runs under High Sierra - learn how. (barefeats.com)
- AMD versus Nvidia GPUs running OpenCL under High Sierra - the test platform is a 2010 Mac Pro tower . . . which isn't exactly a high-performance platform anymore. (barefeats.com)
- Atomos adds HLG HDR Recording to Shogun Inferno and Ninja Inferno - via a free firmware update. (studiodaily.com)
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- [video] Alone - this is a music video from artist Jessie Ware. Directed by Charlie Robbins and shot on 35mm by DP Ben Fordesman. Graded by Richard Fearon. (youtube.com)
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- Clicking Flash Update on Equifax Site results in Adware - seriously? This company needs to be prosecuted and disbanded. And just as bad... the IRS was going to hire them for cybersecurity. (etcentric.org)
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- Amazon may soon deliver packages inside homes and cars - what are the chances Amazon will hire Equifax to do background checks of their delivery persons? (etcentric.org)
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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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