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- Blinded by Color Science - "the problem arises not with the existence of the term color science, but with its casual hijacking." We ran this piece a year ago, but as our industry transitions into wide gamut color spaces, this is a good one to re-read. (endcrawl.com)
- [video] An Ode to Colorists - and their often underappreciated art form.
It’s only 3:48 and asks, "Have you hugged your colorist today? After watching this video, you might want to." (nofilmschool.com)
- Color Grading Darkest Hour - Famed colorist Peter Doyle talks about his workflow on the Winston Churchill bio flick, "Creating the color pipeline early on ultimately allows the filmmakers to view rushes, visual effects, digital intermediates or previews in a form that closely resembles what the final film will look like." More insights after
the click. (postmagazine.com)
- [podcast] The Terence and Philip Show Episode 77 - about "being imposters . . . and what can be done to overcome it." (philiphodgetts.com)
- Eye Color - everything you ever wanted to know about the color of eyes . . . including personality characteristics and frequency of occurance. Who knew? (eyedoctorguide.com via Mama Tao)
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- HPA Awards - includes the list of the winners for best color grading of motion pictures, television, and commercials. (hollywoodreporter.com via Marc Wielage)
- Five contributions - “each one matters, each is intentional, each comes with effort, preparation and reward.” Which one are you? Click through to find out. (sethgodin.typepad.com)
- Art Of The Manual White Balance - your Managing Editor and Publisher were talking about this recently. Jim said a producer stated, ‘we don’t white balance anymore.’ Patrick commented that this story (from Art Adams) is the perfect antidote to that silly statement. (provideocoalition.com)
- Inside 'Mindhunter's' Post Productions - the anatomy of David Fincher’s workflow “These ProRes
files also get an added camera LUT so everyone sees a good representation of the color correction during the editing process.” (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- [vIdeo] Mastering the Color Palette: Zack Snyder - associative colors, discordant colors, and monochromatic nihilism, "In Zack Snyder movies, protagonists aren't heroes, even if they wear capes. They exist in dark, grimy worlds and
are themselves often extremely flawed people." (studiobinder.com via Lucía Blanco)
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- [video] Change Lighting In Resolve - using the combination of a monochrome node and a layer mixer to control the mixture of RGB and the exposure of your images. A good explanation of an interesting technique when the client wants you to get more heavy-handed. (youtube.com)
- Freebie: Boris
Continuum 11 - wanna get a free 30-day rental license? Better hurry. Limited time offer. But only for the 'Three A's'. (toolfarm.com)
- Super Duper 3.0 Update - “a major update to the
drive-cloning and backup app that brings full compatibility with macOS 10.13 High Sierra.” (tidbits.com)
- Red Giant One-Day Sale - like the title says. 40% off. December 5. (prolost.com)
- Avid Media Composer First - “This is not dumbed-down, teaser software, but rather a partially-restricted version of the full-fledged Media Composer software and built upon the same code.” (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- The Relevance of Final Cut Pro X - Lumaforge's Sam Mestman and postproduction expert Ronny Courtens talk about the relevance of Final Cut Pro X “in modern postproduction.” (fcp.co)
- Switching from MasOS? Your shortcut will not change much -
“Some things in Windows run entirely different than in MacOS, but thankfully Shortcut keys are not one of them.” (pugetsystems.com)
- In Depth - Sapphire 11 AVX from Boris FX - “Should users of version 9&10 upgrade to version 11?” That depends. The pricing metric for upgrades and new purchases requires its own chart. (provideocoalition.com)
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- Can Movie-going Be Saved By The Uber Model? - “As ticket sales drop, Regal Cinemas is looking to offset the loss in a novel way.” This is good for discussion on your fave social media platform and see what 'civilians' think about it. (nofilmschool.com)
- Some Advice For Regal Cinemas
On Dynamic Movie Ticket Pricing - “Local market dynamics and demographics, movie taste all differ for each cinema location. It is important to account for these differences “ Sage advice for Regal Cinemas on the Uber Model dynamic movie ticket pricing. (celluloidjunkie.com)
- Highlights from the 2017 SMPTE conference - Like the title says. (displaydaily.com)
- That’s a Wrap for 'Rushes UK' - the company became famous early on for creating the iconic animation for Dire Straits 1977 hit, ‘Money for Nothing.’ Now, they are closing. (fxguide.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. - Are Low -Cost Colorimeters compromising your Calibration results? - testing the XRite colorimeter against more expensive colorimeters. (mixinglight.com)
- Behind the Curtain: Fixing VFX Colorspace Issues - how to match shots when only one of them went through VFX... and the VFX messed up the delivery colorspace. (mixinglight.com)
- Getting to know Dolby Vision HDR: Part 1 - "over the coming weeks I’m sharing my experiences in setting up Dolby Vision grading, explaining how all the pieces work together, exploring grading techniques, and the outputting and mastering of Dolby Vision projects." (mixinglight.com)
- How accurate was the XRite SpectralCal C6 colorimeter's 3D Calibration LUT? - if you have an old, aging colorimeter can an offset matrix get it working like new? (mixinglight.com)
- Behind the Curtain: Rotoscoping in Resolve - "I’ve also included some of the honest mistakes that I made, as I feel that this series is made for showing the good, the bad, and
the ugly." (mixinglight.com)
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- Blackmagic Design Conference + Expo - "three days of sessions on DaVinci Resolve Studio, Fusion Studio and Blackmagic Design cameras. Come meet the Blackmagic Design product team, and network with like-minded peers." Your Tao Publisher will be there. February 11, 12, 13. Burbank. (blackmagicconference.com)
- The Definitive Guide to DaVinci Resolve 14: Editing, Color and Audio - just released book by Blackmagic Design as an introduction to the app, with downloadable media to follow along. Your Tao Publisher is a contributing author. (amazon.com)
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- Eat, Drink And Be Merry - around the Tao HQ it well known that your Managing Editor is a bourbon aficionado. Kentucky bourbon, says Jim, tastes like a warm summer day.” As the holidays approach here’s a way to get your bourbon out of the glass and baked into your holiday meals. (skillet.lifehacker.com)
- [video] I'm Not a Robot - you know that captcha you check that reads, ‘I’m not a robot?’ “How does it know you’re not a robot and why does it matter.” The answer is more interesting than
you think. And maybe a little creepy. (youtube.com)
- iPhone Fast-Charging - The instructions on fast charging Are. Buried. Deep. “At minimum, you will need a new Lightning cable—because the one bundled with new iPhones can’t carry enough juice.” Painfully fun(nie). And apparently, worth the expense. (gizmodo.com)
- Best video Cards for Gaming: Holiday 2017 - "we give you our recommendations in terms of GPU models and current prices representative of an affordable non-blower custom card." (anandtech.com)
- Best Gaming Laptops: Holiday 2017 - "Sizing up the current state of the gaming laptop market, 8th Generation CPUs for notebooks were released a couple of months ago but haven't made their way into the list quite yet." (anandtech.com)
- Best mechanical keyboards: Holiday 2017 - "It is very difficult to put it into words but if someone uses a mechanical keyboard for a few days, all membrane keyboards [feel] like a toy afterward." So true. And yes, your Publisher
thinks this is a Fun topic. (anandtech.com)
- Best consumer Hard Drives: Holiday 2017 - "Analyzing the results of our evaluation indicates that different vendors optimize the firmware of their units for different use-cases." Definitely, FUN! (anandtech.com)
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- How to enable the Pixel Visual Core's HDR+ feature on Android 8.1 - cause if you got it you should use it! (9to5google.com)
- [review] Philips 55POS9002 Ambilight OLED - "features a 55-inch WRGB OLED panel sourced from LG Display, native UHD (ultra high-definition) resolution of 3840×2160, three-sided Ambilight system, Android Smart TV platform, as well as HDR support which fulfils the criteria specified by the UHD Alliance for Ultra HD Premium
certification." (hdtvtest.co.uk)
- Quantum Dot Display Technology coming to LCD's Rescue - "adoption of [wide color gamut] and [high dynamic range] with 4K resolutions really helped consumer to see the visual quality differences and experience it. Quantum dot enhanced
backlight light in LCD TV takes it to the next level with an even wider range of colors and luminance." (displaydaily.com)
- OLED has my heart, but LCD still has my head -
"although the visual performance of OLED is fantastic and the form factor amazing, the sheer level of investment in LCD already made and planned in new fabs means that OLED will not be able to break out of the premium market segment that it is in." Very interesting article. (displaydaily.com)
- [review] LG OLED65B7 - firmware update improves picture quality, "we installed the new firmware 04.70.10 on one set, and did a side-by-side comparison against the other set which carried an older firmware. From the many tests we conducted, we saw three key improvements... " (hdtvtest.co.uk)
- Building a 4K video editing PC for 2018 - "deciding which will be the specifications of your next PC may be more difficult than ever. Is it better to buy a pre-built computer or build your own? This guide will help you decide." (provideocoalition.com)
- Sony makes pro appeal with new high-performing CFast cards - "Sony's cards boast write speeds of up to 510MB/s and read speeds of up to 530MB/s." (nofilmschool.com)
- Shootout: Three fast, new thunderbolt 3 drives - "In the past, bus-powered Thunderbolt 2 drives were much slower than their AC/DC powered counterparts so this is a breakthrough for fans of bus-power." (barefeats.com)
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- [video] OK Go: Obsession - We originally thought about putting this story in the Sunday Fun(lies), but while it is fun the color is solid throughout. Kudos to on set DIT Taito Oyama, and Colorist Yasutaka Ishihara. (youtube.com)
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- Origami-inspired artificial muscles outperform human ones - "MIT researchers . . . They devised a system that mixes pressure with an origami-inspired skeleton to (by some measures) outperform muscles." (arstechnica.com)
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- What you should know before you gift someone a DNA Test - “Companies can’t even keep simple data like our passwords and credit card numbers safe, so should we trust them with our most personal data: our DNA?” (vitals.lifehacker.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
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