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- Colorist Jill Bogdanowicz on Altered Carbon - the Netflix sci-fi series, "I designed a LUT to create that film noir look before shooting. I actually provided a few options, and they chose my favorite one and used it
throughout." (postperspective.com)
- An Interview with RED's Chief Color
Scientist - "Just as film was not tied to a distribution format ...computer based video didn’t need to be tied to a particular standard either." Part one with Graeme Nattress. (redsharknews.com)
- There Are People Who Hear Color - and all because of a hyper-connected brains that may “act in concert with early life experiences to form synesthetes’ - unique secondary mappings.” (arstechnica.com)
- Colorist Maxine Gervais on Black Panther - colorist talks about color grading her first
Marvel movie "...I used way more composite grading than I have ever done before, blending many layers. I had to push the technology and push myself to find ways to make it work.” (filmlight.ltd.uk)
- [video] How Filmmakers Manipulate Our Emotions Using Color - "Film directors have exploited our connection to color for decades." A video that's a few years old but popped up again in our social media feeds. (youtube.com)
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- Transcriptive - “is the new way of automatically transcribing your video within Premiere Pro! It's a Premiere panel that uses Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to turn all the speech in your video
into text.” $299US (toolfarm.com)
- Digital Rebellion: March Updates - the full list
of updates to their suite of useful software tools. (digitalrebellion.com)
- Power Load Calculator - "this tool will help you calculate the load on a circuit to see if it is excessive. You can also calculate the minimum circuit
breaker size for the given load." Designed for production crews, also useful for those of us running maxed out computer rigs with multiple displays and RAIDs. (digitalrebellion.com)
- [video] Working in HDR with Final Cut Pro X - "while Final Cut Pro
introduced Wide Gamut support last year . . . but did not support expanded brightness levels. With HDR support, we now can have both wide color gamut and brighter colors as well." (provideocoalition.com)
- [review] Flicker Free Plug In - "this isn’t a new product . . . but with more and more cameras now capable of shooting in high frame rates and capturing in-camera time-lapses, I thought it was a good time to look at it in more detail." (newsshooter.com)
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- How To Make Sure You Get Paid By Your Clients - like the title says, for freelancers. (premiumbeat.com)
- The Shape Of Water - Guillermo Del Toro's Oscar winning movie "has been accused of ripping off not one but TWO different movies." What's the difference between 'influenced by' and 'plagiarism'? (joe.ie)
- Dawn of a New Entertainment Era - "OTT (Over The Top), (is) a way of distributing content to the consumer over the internet via streaming." If you are not grading for OTT-distributed content you will soon be. A brief overview of the (current) players on the OTT field. (thedrum.com)
- Netflix Creates Apps for Production - "With a team of 30 to 35 people, Netflix is creating apps to streamline parts of the production process, such as crew management, scheduling
and budgeting." (etcentric.org)
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- [video] Behind The Curtain: Shot Matching In Action - In part two of grading the Bread short film, Dan dives into the matching side of things. Although it's the least glamorous part of grading it's also the most important. (mixinglight.com)
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- 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)
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- 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)
- 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)
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- [video] Monty Python and the Holy Grail - as a serious action drama trailer. Fun.. (youtube.com)
- [video] The Ultimate Kitchen Wine Cellar - brilliant. Funny. (digg.com)
- [video] A New View Of The Moon - two filmmakers "hit the streets of Los Angeles with a high-powered telescope and invited strangers to look, in a new way, at the moon overhead." The results are wonderful. And fun for the family. (studiodaily.com)
- 30 Legendary Startup Pitch Decks - "and what you can learn from them." These are the original pitches by companies you know today but were unknown entities as startups. How did YouTube become YouTube? How did Facebook become Facebook? Click through to find out. (piktochart.com)
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- Performance-tuned hardware in the age of the GPU - an interview with the founder of mediaworkstations.net, "The number-one
misconception is that Thunderbolt is fast. Thunderbolt is not fast. The drive you have connected through Thunderbolt is fast. If you have a 20 SSD RAID, a Thunderbolt connection is relatively low cost and very fast. But if not, it’s not going to make much difference in your workflow." (studiodaily.com)
- Angelshark Internal Storage Expander For Mac Pro - "a creative way to expand internal storage of your 'late 2013' Mac Pro by adding two M.2 PCIe-based flash storage blades to the left and right of the Apple proprietary PCIe-based flash blade." (barefeats.com)
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- [video] The Ball Makes Us More - Colorist Daniel de Vue does a superb job of tying this Nike commercial together. The 90-second ad, by Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam, is
directed by Oscar-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister, and salutes F.C. Barcelona’s ability to unite Catalans across the city. (youtube.com)
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- Sony Showcases Interactive Hologram Experiences At SXSW - "similar to a hologram in that it consists of light within a 3D space that “everyone can see and interact with.” Additionally, it is AR that is approachable and accessible; it doesn’t
require any expensive gear or even a certain smartphone or software." (etcentric.org)
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- Logitech's G650 Gaming Speakers Bring RGB Immersion To Your Desktop - a step too far? Fun? Both? Neither? You decide. (9to5mac.com)
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The Book Shelf- 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)
- 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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