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- Cinematographers Express Concerns About How Images Are Manipulated in Post - "with film, the cinematographer maintained 'ownership of the image'...but with digital tools, the image can be manipulated at every stage of the
production and postproduction process, resulting in “too many cooks in the kitchen...” Otherwise known as 'collaboration'. But what do I know? (hollywoodreporter.com)
- Creating the look for Netflix’s The End of the F***ing World - colorist "Toby Tomkins, co-founder of boutique studio Cheat, explains how he worked with 8K rushes shot on
Red to devise and execute the stylish look of Netflix’ hit dark comedy..." (postperspective.com)
- Do’s and
Don’ts of Skin Tones Painting - "Bill Murray + Morgan Freeman." (youtube.com via Steve Hullfish)
- If you see Green Storm Clouds, Prepare for the Worst - “Traditional folk wisdom says that the ominous color of the clouds comes from all the frogs and grasshoppers the tornadoes sucked up into the sky” (lifehacker.com)
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- [video] How to Use the Dodge and Burn Blend Modes in Photoshop - a 12-minute tutorial that shows you how to use this technique to
simultaneously dodge and burn your still photos while color grading them at the same time. (youtube.com)
- DaVinci Resolve 15: Everything you need to know about the LUT browser - like the headline says. (premiumbeat.com)
- NAB 2018: IBM Watson on Refining Al for Closed Captioning - “closed
captioning isn’t just for the hard-of-hearing anymore. According to Digiday, 85% of Facebook video is viewed without sound.” (etcentric.org)
- Vimeo adds MacOS menubar App - "you’ll be prompted to connect to Final Cut Pro. After restarting Final Cut, you’ll see the app in your share destinations as Vimeo (advanced)." (fcp.co)
- Blackmagic Updates Resolve with Fusion VFX software - “meaning VFX artists can work in the same desktop environment as their collaborators in editorial and color and editors don’t
have to [leave] the boundaries of Resolve in order to try their hand at compositing.” (studiodaily.com)
- [video] Resolve 15 Fusion Tab Basics - a quick intro. (youtube.com via Rich Roddman)
- NAB 2018 Interview with Avid’s new CEO Jeff Rosica - including a look at upcoming Media Composer features. (provideocoalition.com)
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- [video] How We Killed The Green Screen - a filmmaker creates a new visual effects compositing technology that combines a "new
mixed-reality screen along with the oldest (and maybe best) trick in the filmmaking book." (vimeo.com)
- MoviePass, The Cinema Subscription Service, Could Shake Up The Film Industry - "...if it (MoviePass) survives long enough." The company is 7 years old, and growing in subscribers.
Movie goers are pleased. Theater owners and studio executives are worried it will hurt the industry. (latimes.com)
- NAB Panel: The Future of HDR in Cinema - with SpectraCal/Portrait, Pixar, Dolby Labs, and Sony Pictures. (provideocoalition.com)
- NAB 2018: Machine Intelligence Toolsets in Video Workflows - "a panel discussion described the tools available and how they’re being used in real world applications." (etcentric.org)
- Next Wave of UHD Technologies Announced at NAB 2018 - “with a 80-page document paving the way for everything from high frame rate to audio quality.” (provideocoalition.com)
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- Colorist Podcast: NAB 2018 - in this special installment of the Colorist Podcast Josh sits down with Jason Myers and discusses NAB 2018. The duo shares their thoughts on Blackmagic, Autodesk, & Film Light announcements as well as new grading monitors. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Resolve 15 New Color Page Features - fresh off demoing Resolve 15 at the Blackmagic booth at NAB 2018, colorist Joey D'Anna shares his thoughts on the top new features that benefit the dedicated colorist the most in Resolve 15. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Two ways of using DaVinci Resolve’s Parallel Mixer Node - in Part 2 of this series you learn two different ways of using DaVinci Resolve's Parallel Mixer node. We take the
theory from Part 1 and put it into action. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] Behind the Curtain: Can You Prebuild An Ideal Node Structure? - can you prebuild a perfect node structure and use it to speed up your grading? Dan is taking a deep dive to find out how well it works, and if it's a genius idea or a total waste of time. (mixinglight.com)
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- Fusion & DaVinci Resolve 15 Starts A New Trend? - colorist Josh Petok is hardly surprised at this new trend... (linkedin.com)
- [video] Once Upon a Time In The West - director Sergio Leone's masterpiece was filmed on location in Spain and in Monument Valley in the USA. This short video shows you filming locations then ...and now. Fun. (youtube.com)
- [video] Hands-On with VR OmniDirectional Treadmill - "this treadmill lets you walk freely in virtual reality, in any direction." K-razy. (youtu.be)
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- NEC LP Projector solves a color challenge -“the challenge in getting a wider colour gamut is to achieve primary RGB colours that are more pure and less diluted by colours that are away from the pure colours at the extremes of the colour
triangles.” (displaydaily.com)
- Sony impresses
with 8K CLED Display - "this is an RGB microLED video wall solution that was not only massive but showed incredible images – most of the time." (displaydaily.com)
- Other World computing Thunderbolt 3 Flash Storage - "Multiple Macs with multiple Thunderbolt 3 ports inspired some interesting and useful Thunderbolt 3 storage solutions. In this posting we highlight some creative options
from Other World Computing." (barefeats.com)
- The weakest link - a blog post for DITs about finding faster
transfer speeds between SSDs drives and platters. (dorkinatent.com)
- [forum] 2018 LG OLED Calibration and User settings - a
thread dedicated to finding the best calibration settings for this consumer OLED. (avsforum.com)
- The New New Thing - "it takes a minimum of 20 years for a new display technology to go from concept to commercial product, if it ever does." An interesting discussion on the
lifecycle of display technology and where microLCDs fall in that paradigm. (displaydaily.com)
- On-Set Monitoring: What to look for, and what to avoid - "About 50% of the time, rented monitors are set up to someone else’s idea of what looks good. Unless I check every setting, or perform a factory reset, I have no idea
what I’m capturing. Here’s what I look at." (provideocoalition.com)
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- [video] Ultra-Realistic Robot Surprises Public for Westworld - to hype Season 2 of the Sci-Fi hit series in the UK a British company used a real life robot to get their message across. The robot took 12 weeks to build, was placed in a London pub, surrounded by hidden cameras and unleashed on a thirsty public. "a very, very strange experience." (youtube.com)
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- [video] Get Exercise while Gaming by linking your Console to a Rowing Machine - or not. You decide. (lifehacker.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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