• [video] 'The Last Jedi' and Color - Fotokem DI Colorist Walter Volpatto talks about his recent high-profile color work on 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi,' how he got started as a colorist and the craft of grading. More importantly, he talks about the enormity of the workflow on such an important and iconic film property. (postperspective.com via Marc Wielage)
  
• Dan Coles: Meet the Colorist - "My favorite projects are invariably the ones where everyone feels able to pitch in and become involved in the grading process." Senior Colorist, Technicolor, London shares a variety of pithy comments. (filmlight.ltd.uk)
  
• Workflow Breakdown of Every Best Picture and Best Editing Oscar Nominee - including color grading, budgets, and schedules. Cool stuff. (blog.frame.io)
  
• What Is The Perfect Color Worth? - "“What is the zeitgeist going on in the United States about color? ...Are they big colors? Are they strong colors? Prime colors?” Go inside a conference on the state of color around the world. And along the way you'll learn about a new phrase: 'color forecasting.' (nytimes.com)
  
• HPA Tech Retreat: Color Flow In The Desert - "it’s a misconception to think that if you give all of the departments that require access to this color the same LUT, they are going to see the same thing. Unfortunately, that’s not the case!" Part of the presentation discussing color workflow from production through post. (postperspective.com)
  
• The film look: what is it, and why are there two of them? - "there are two basic techniques for making digital images look like film. Here’s what they are, and why." From one of our favorite writers, Art Adams. (provideocoalition.com)
  
• Using the fibonacci sequence to compose your shots - "the Fibonacci Sequence isn't a rule of composition you have to follow. Yes . . . you can use it to compose your shots with math and that's amazing, but it's not a rule. It's just—a thing that exists—a wonderful, inspiring, glorious thing". Hmmm... do you think we can get FSI to include it as a standard overlay on their displays? (nofilmschool.com)

• ACES Step by Step For Low Budget Shoots - "The object here is to view an image on-set that will match an image viewed in an ACES workflow regardless of the software used for post." (acescentral.com)
  
• LUT’s That Emulate the ACES Workflow - Geoff Boyle of CML and Nick Shaw of Antler Post put together a workflow to help colorists reproduce the ACES look on a standard REC709 monitor regardless of the camera used on set. (acescentral.com)
  
• Pro Video Coalition: 28 Days of Quick Tips - the month-long series on PVC is gathered all in one place. Tips for users of: Premiere Pro, FCP X, Media Composer, and DaVinci Resolve (provideocoalition.com)
  
• [video] Watch the Apple Final Cut Pro 10.4 Presentation from LACPUG - "apple product marketing showed off 10.4’s newest features to the standing room only crowd of Hollywood editors and filmmakers. It’s safe to say some minds were blown, especially during the HDR segment." (fcp.co)
  
• Creating Custom Black and White effects in Final Cut Pro X - it's a good tip for FCPx color workflows. (provideocoalition.com)
  
• [video] Using DaVinci Resolve's face refinement tool - a good demo. But it skips the limitations of the plug-in. (youtube.com)
  
• FilmConvert: New camera profile for the Panasonic Lumix GH5s - because they're always adding cameras. Now Panasonic just needs to ship the camera, so you can start using the profile. (provideocoalition.com)
  
• Pomfort LiveGrade Pro v4 Coming Soon + Public Beta Available Now - this post links to a rundown of the new features. Plus, a link to the Public Beta download. (toolfarm.com)

• NAB 2018: EditShare talks cybercrime prevention - "the new XStream EFS Auditing Dashboard mitigates potential hacking and content theft. The company will also debut new workflows that lower costs." (provideocoalition.com)
  
• [video] How to Get Out of a Funk - if you slip into a funk you can’t seem to break out of, try these "five scientifically-proven ways to un-funk yourself." Our personal fav is number two - which is how your Publisher is working on this Newsletter, right now. (youtube.com)
  
• Avid terminates CEO Louis Hernandez, Jr. for Misconduct - lots of Media Composer users have been wanting this result, but for completely different reasons. (devoncroft.com)
  
• China Cinema News: New Year Special 2018 - interesting report on the Chinese cinema as they wrap up their national holiday, where the whole country goes on vacation and Hollywood features are banned from exhibition. (celluloidjunkie.com)

• [video] Behind the curtain: Bread The Short Film Part 1 - Dan shows a real-time grade of the short film he graded recently. Shot in less than ideal conditions with natural light on a compressed camera it's a great chance to see the good the bad and the ugly from the grading suite (mixinglight.com)
• [video] Top Calibration and Display Setup Questions (with Bram Desmet) - "learn the most common calibration mistakes post production professionals make when setting up their external displays; and the most common questions asked. An interview with FSI CEO Bram Desmet." (mixinglight.com)
• [podcast] Migrating PowerBins, PowerGrades, Configs Between Databases - "Team Mixing Light discusses strategies for moving PowerGrades, PowerBins & project configurations between databases. Resolve makes this harder than you'd think!" (mixinglight.com)
  

• Moviola.com: Now Free - in a change of strategy, the entire Moviola tutorial library is now free. (provideocoalition.com)
  

• NAB 2018 Final Cut Pro X: Post Without Limits - "a special evening of Final Cut Pro X workflows and case studies from creative professionals that are breaking the boundaries of what’s possible in post". Registration required. (fcpexchange.com)

• 6th Annual Colorist Mixer - mark your calendar, set your plans: Sunday April 8, 7:00p. Virgil's BBQ at the Linq Promenade. It's the premiere social event for color-loving post-production pros. Mingle with your peers, chat with your vendors. (coloristmixer.com | eventbrite.com)
  

• Get Your Exhibits Pass (and save) - the Early Bird registration deadline has ended for an Exhibition Pass. Use this code from our Tao Newsletter sponsor Flanders Scientific to save $50: LV2746 (nabshow.com)
  

• NAB 2018: The Official Toolfarm Guide - the classic guide to getting around NAB like a pro. (toolfarm.com) 
  

• 21st Annual Media Motion Ball - "the MediaMotion Ball serves as the unofficial industry kickoff and reunion event for the production, post production and motion graphics communities." A very popular social event attended by many well-known industry personalities and companies - with a new location. Early Bird pricing ends March 19. (provideocoalition.com | eventbrite.com)
  

• 17th Annual Supermeet - join "digital media creators and collaborative video user groups from around the Globe in Las Vegas for the largest gathering of creative and collaborative editors, Adobe, Avid, Final Cut Pro and Autodesk gurus, collaborative Digital Storytellers and Filmmakers in Las Vegas in 2018." (supermeet.com)​​​​​​​
  

• FCPWorks: Events At NAB 2018 - like the title says. (fcpworks.com)

Publisher's Note: This section of the Newsletter has been quiet the past two weeks. Hmmm... the lul before NAB?

• DaVinci Resolve 14 GPU scaling: Core i9 vs Xeon W vs Dual Xeon SP - "We were hoping that our results would end up being relatively straight-forward, but unfortunately, reality has a knack for complicating things..." Including interesting results once they went past 2 GPUs. (pugetsystems.com)
  
• 8-core versus 10-core iMac Pro: The Final Conflict - "With the help of some remote mad scientists, we were able to collect more 10-core iMac Pro CPU intensive benchmarks to compare with our 8-core iMac Pro -- both with the same Pro Vega 64 GPU." (barefeats.com)

• [video] Ubisoft The Baptism - forget the hero’s journey. For Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5, the creative agency DDB Paris, made the game’s villian the focal point of the live-action trailer below. “The Baptism” introduces the character as he is, then shows us why. The voyage is all villain. Solid color throughout thanks to Director of Colour Production, Ellora Chowdury. (youtube.com)

• Next-Gen 5G will unlock VR, Autonomous Vehicles and more - "latency will plummet to 1 to 2 milliseconds, versus 4G’s average 50 milliseconds, positively impacting many markets, from medicine to self-driving cars." (etcentric.org)

• Facebook really is spying on you, just not through your phone's microphone - just because the Facebook starts showing you ads about a product you've been talking about don't think they need to listen in on you. It turns out, you're giving them everything they need to know to market to you. (wsj.com)