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- The 40 Most Beautiful Shots From The Movies of 2017 - "Each film is limited to one shot for the purposes of this list. Otherwise, it would be a bunch of shots from Blade Runner 2049 drowning out everything else." The craft of cinematography also includes the craft of color grading, among others. (filmschoolrejects.com)
- Grading controls should be more like guitars - "Lastly, and the reason for this article, I don’t like how the [FCPX 10.4] color-balance and contrast controls interact with one another as you make adjustments. This is probably my
biggest complaint. It’s also possibly a bug." (vanhurkman.com)
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- Final Cut Pro X 10.4 Tips, Tricks and Tutorials - a friend of the Tao does does his typlical extensive roundup of the new features in Apple's latest update, with a heavy focus on the color tools. (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- DaVinci Resolve’s New Node Graph Feature - "The latest updates for the DaVinci Resolve Color Page have improved your workflow. Again. Let’s take a look at the new Node Graph developments." (premiumbeat.com)
- How to Replicate Cast Shadows - in
DaVinci Resolve 14.x. "There’s a common misconception about recreating shadows.. (premiumbeat.com)
- [review] DaVinci Resolve 14 For Editing - "While I typically refer to Resolve as a high-end color correction and finishing tools, this review will focus on the Editing tab." (postperspective.com)
- [review] Blackmagic
Design DaVinci Resolve 14 - "Advanced editing functions and the inclusion of the Fairlight audio engine put Resolve on track to be the industry’s latest all-in-one post-production powerhouse." Oliver Peters goes in depth on Resolve's editing and audio features. (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
- [video] Fairlight: How To Mix, Route, Patch & Deliver - a 7.1, 5.1 and stereo mix. Because colorists often have to execute basic deliverables, and Resolve 14
completely changed how we do these things. (vimeo.com via Marc Wielage)
- Update: Digital FIlm Tools v1.1 - adds a new frost filter and color management options. (toolfarm.com)
- [video] FCP X: Working With Camera And Creative Luts - and get introduced to the term 'LUT sandwich'. (provideocoalition.com)
- [video] How to get the ‘Stranger Things’ Look - like the title says. (youtu.be)
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- Is MoviePass Here to Stay? - "As its user base grows, the subscription-based film-ticket service is playing hardball with AMC, the biggest theater chain in the country." (theatlantic.com)
- Color Fidelity In Panasonic Tvs Is So Good, Hollywood Colorists Chose It - a Forbes 'article' hawking a particular brand of television describes the work of a colorist to the
civilian population. (forbes.com via Marc
Wielage)
- Super Bowl LII Ad Digest - "we're collecting the [Super Bowl LII commercials] as they become available, so you can watch them without any distractions." (campaignlive.com)
- Holographic Displays - the race to show true 3D floating images floating has been under way for 50 years. Now it's called, "“full parallax holographic displays". (redsharknews.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, 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] Make it with Keanu Reeves - how to design a website by channeling your inner Neo. Or something. (youtube.com via Matt Osborne)
- Dolby Atmos Speaker Setup - because Tao HQ just finished upgrading our home theater to a Dolby Vision / Atmos 5.1.2 setup. And this guide proved quite useful. And when we were done... F. U. N. (dolby.com)
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- CES 2018: Corsair Wireless K63 Mechanical Keyboard - with accompanying Lap Board. Because Tao HQ is a fan of mechanical keyboards. (anandtech.com)
- Sony begins rolling out Dolby Vision update to select 4K Ultra HDTV's - get the details. (hdguru.com)
- New Ultra HD Blu-Ray Players - because the 2017 batch of players was ultra-lame if you wanted Dolby Vision support. (hdguru.com)
- Philips Ambilight: Integrated Bias Lighting - nice to see consumer sets starting to start taking key elements of the color craft as competitive selling points. (hdtvtest.co.uk)
- Aja's Fs-hdr V2.0 Software - enables greater control over color processing and HDR. (provideocoalition.com)
- What if the iMac Pro had Three Vega GPUs? - "macOS 10.13.4 beta now recognizes the correct model name of the external GPU. In this case it recognizes we have Vega Frontier Editions mounted. To celebrate, we connected TWO Sonnet eGFX Breakaway boxes to the iMac Pro's Thunderbolt 3 ports, each sporting a Radeon Vega Frontier Edition."
(barefeats.com)
- Linux Hardware Identification Tools - "This is the first in a series of posts that will provide some useful GUI based tools for your Linux environment. I felt the best place to start was with hardware information collecting." (pugetsystems.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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