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- Combating computer vision syndrome - "Chances are you’ve already experienced symptoms of eye strain, and don’t even know it. The first, and most obvious sign is. . ." Yes. We're going to force you to click through. It's too important not to. (provideocoalition.com)
- [video] Egyptian Blue - "the color blue was a big deal to the ancient Egyptians." But the color fell out of favor and the recipe to make it was lost for centuries. Scientists eventually rediscovered it. The incredible story of blue. In
under 4 minutes. (youtube.com)
- Color Collective - a blog created as an online color resource for designers showcasing color palettes based on the work of various designers, artists, and photographers. (color-collective.com via Matt Osborne)
- How to take a picture of a stealth bomber over the Rose Bowl - once you click through to see the image, you'll understand why this falls under the category of 'craftsmanship'. (theatlantic.com)
- What you need to know about high key vs. low key lighting - "High key and low key lighting can create drastic differences in the final look of your film. Let’s take a look at which is best for your next shoot." As a colorist, you need to understand this. (premiumbeat.com)
- ASC announces full slate of award nominees - "including a nod to Rachel Morrison, ASC, the first
woman ever nominated in the ASC Award category recognizing cinematography for Theatrical Release." (studiodaily.com)
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- [video] FCP X 10.4 Tips, Tricks and Tutorials - the articles related to FCPX 10.4 keep rolling. Instead of swamping you with them we send you to an expanded roundup covering all the NLE’s new features, including new color tools. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- [video] FCP X 10.4 Color Grading Tools Are a Game Changer - this blog post skips the NLE part and focuses only on the new color tools. "The most
significant changes all had to do with color. If the changes for color could be summed up in one word, it would be flexibility." (blog.frame.io)
- Colorist Asa Shoul: Adding Color to The Crown - "With the early grade tests I supplied jpegs to production to
show the effect the grade was having on the lipstick and certain key costumes so that they could alter colours before filming, which saved us a lot of time in the final grade." A P.R. piece with some good nuggets. (filmlight.ltd.uk)
- [video] Utilizing Lightroom Presets in Luminar 2018 - for the photogs who use LUTs to color grade their stills, Luminar is a new app that is getting a lot of attention. (fstoppers.com)
- Bezier Curves: What are they and how do you use them? - if you work with Curves then you likely have access to Beziers. Learn more about them. (premiumbeat.com)
- 6 tips for limiting during Mastering - for Resolve users who suddenly have the option of doing Limiting with the default toolset. (waves.com)
- Did Windows suddenly turn Black & White? - "we've been receiving support cases from people reporting that their displays went from full color to black and white without warning. We were not aware of any changes to Windows 10
until we started digging in a little further." (pugetsystems.com)
- Blackmagic Design Fusion 9: Planar tracker tutorial - because there are precious few Fusion resources out
there. (youtube.com)
- 3D LUT Creator: The Master of Color Manipulation - "1D LUTs were just
glorified curves, and 3D LUTs not so complex color transformations. It’s all bits and bytes, matrix here, matrix there, I have already seen it all. Booooring. But this was before I was asked to review 3D LUT Creator." (creativeimpatience.com)
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- Death, Taxes and MegaPixels - "so let just touch on a topic that generates a lot of dis-information, fear and really stupid comments on fourms and social media. Those damn K's. (megapixels.io)
- Are fewer young people watching movies in cinemas? - "I was dismayed to learn that some of the teenagers at Into Film events had never been inside a cinema before. This isn’t statistically unlikely, it just differs so much from my memories of being a teenager that I wasn’t expecting it." A dig into the numbers. (stephenfollows.com)
- FCC approves ATSC 3.0 Framework by 3-2 Vote - "will not be backward compatible with the current over-the-air broadcast tuners in TV sets, but broadcasters will be required to simulcast substantially similar programming to their ATSC
3.0 broadcasts over the current ATSC 1.0 system for a period of five years." (hdguru.com)
- Amazon Web Services rolls out elemental media services for video providers - "the existing three products include live compression engine MediaLive, packaging technology MediaPackage and
file-to-file transcoding engine MediaConvert [plus] MediaStore, for video delivery from storage optimized for media, and MediaTailor, a targeted ad insertion program." I've been blown away by AWS' Elastic Transcoder, which we use on Mixing Light. Impressive. It's interesting seeing this move by Amazon. (etcentric.org)
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Mixing Light Is In Its 24-Insights-in-24-Days 2018 New Year Tutorial Marathon: - On the road: Working aboard as a Colorist - "11 Colorists Share Their International Tales (and Tips)". By Contributor Katie Hinsen. (mixinglight.com)
- From the Grading Room: Emulation gone wrong - "how to #fail when a client asks for a new direction." Lessons learned from working inside the color suite. (mixinglight.com)
- [Podcast] Color Restoration from the hollywood angle
- an interview with Marc Wielage about reformatting and restoring Hollywood features and episodics from the 70s, 80s and 90s. (mixinglight.com)
- The challenges (and lessons learned) of color restoring classic films - "The color restoration of classic films is one of the few 'Dark Arts' of digital color correction. Colorist Jim Wicks shares his challenges - and lessons learned -
from this unforgiving niche of the craft of color grading." (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Creating a Show LUT: keeping things simple - "When you have complex node trees, rolling it into a show LUT can make your life a lot neater and easier. Within seconds you have your own custom starting point for your show or movie." (mixinglight.com)
- [podcast] Blackmagic Design Conference & Thoughts on the new iMac Pro - "team Mixing Light discusses the first ever Blackmagic Design Conference & Expo as well as our thoughts on Apple's latest - the iMac Pro." (mixinglight.com)
- FCPX 10.4 update: Evaluating the new color correction features - "This Insight reviews the standout points of this new color correction toolset - and
gotcha's you should understand." (mixinglight.com)
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- Apple returns to LACPUG with FCPX 10.4 and iMac Pro - "the good folks from Cupertino are back to show off the latest version of FCPX 10.4 along with their new powerhouse iMac Pro. The event is set for January 24, 2018 back at LACPUG’s home at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood." (fcpworks.com)
- 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, and Team Mixing Light, 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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- [video] A Canyon of LG Monitors - a 90 foot winding corridor containing 246 OLED panels. It was one of the must-sees at the CES 2018 show. (youtube.com via Robbie Carman)
- [video] Travel To The Moon With David Bowie - a fun video based on a simple question, 'how long would it take
me to walk from the earth to the moon. (youtube.com)
- [video] Top 5 Most Original Movies of All Time - like the title says, according to CineFix. (youtube.com)
- Spoiler Alert! About themes and the beautiful brilliance of the ending of Star Wars: The Last Jedi - 'nuff said. (roosterteeth.com)
- [video] The letter ‘A’ - brilliant. Tons of fun - turning a flat page into something much deeper, right in
front of your eyes. (@DannyDutch)
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- LG Might Make Pricey TV Calibrations a Thing of the Past - Portrait Displays' automatic calibration will make calibrating LG TVs much faster and easier, “but it doesn't mean you'll necessarily be able to do it yourself." (pcmag.com)
- Understanding Apple's New SecureBoot - "One of the areas that Apple has made big improvements with the release of the 2017 iMac Pro is the introduction of SecureBoot. SecureBoot is a process where the firmware
validates the bootloader prior to loading." Learn more. (twocanoes.com)
- VESA Announces DP8K Certified DisplayPort Cables - "DP8K cables guaranteed to support DisplayPort's HBR3 signaling mode, which in turn is required to support 8K monitors under the current DisplayPort 1.4 standard." (anandtech.com)
- Putting Apple’s iMac Pro through the paces - "This comparison isn’t truly apples-to-apples, since the specs of the three different products are somewhat different from each other. Nevertheless, I feel that it’s a valid
real-world assessment of the iMac Pros in a typical, modern post environment." (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- Panasonic Shows 4K OLED TV supporting HDR+ - "said to incorporate 'profound under-the-hood improvements' to
Panasonic’s proprietary Hollywood Cinema Experience (HCX) image processor, along with the latest generation of HDR OLED panels 'with exceptional contrast and colors.'" (hdguru.com)
- Sony Protypes ‘Full Spec HDR 8K display’ with 10,000 Nits Luminance - "the 85” device with a 7680×4320 resolution relies on an unknown display technology and an undisclosed backlighting system to enable a peak luminance of 10,000 nits." (anandtech.com)
- [benchmark] iMac Pro with Pro Vega 56 GPU versus optional Pro Vega 64 - how much extra performance will you get for the 10% price increase? (barefeats.com)
- iMac Pro PCIe-based flash storage: How fast versus other Macs? - "The 2017 iMac Pro has dual NVMe PCIe-based flash modules as a boot volume. Let's see how fast it transfer large sequential data. And let's see if older Mac Pros can compete with it when upgraded to fast PCIe-based flash blade or
striped blades." (barefeats.com)
- [benchmark] 8-core and 10-core iMac Pros running Pro Apps (part 2) - includes render times exporting RED from Resolve. (barefeats.com)
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- [video] TSIRKU - snowboarders set out to tackle the fabled Corrugated spine lines of the Tsirku Glacier Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon converge. (vimeo.com)
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- How iCloud Users Can Ensure Their Cloud Data Isn't MIgrated to Chinese Servers - because there's a reason China is forcing Apple to host on their servers. (9to5mac.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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