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- Dan Moran on his rules of colour grading - "we thought it was high time to prize him from his colour cave, take him around to the pub, and ask him some deeply probing questions..." (promonews.tv)
- [video] Colorist Peter Doyle: HDR, Vintage Workflows, Etiquette - "recently, I was fortunate to see master colorist Peter Doyle . . . My friends at the AFC (the French Society of Cinematographers) kindly agreed to let me edit and present footage that they shot of Peter's presentation." (ascmag.com via Marc Wielage)
- [video] Mastering the Movie Color Palette: Denis Villeneuve - "Denis Villeneuve movies create compelling character development, but how? Learn what goes into each frame and how to choose a color palette." Well done.
(youtube.com via Shant Kiraz)
- Two Hundred Years of Blue - "it's focused on literature but I think the readers would find it inspirational." (brainpickings.org via Rubén Abruña)
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- How To Never Lose A Video Project Again - "we hate losing stuff as having to do anything twice is a waste of time and money. Matt O'Shea gives us some tips about sorting media, saving Libraries and has a free set of folder icons to download that
will help get your media organised." (fcp.co)
- [review] Assimilate Scratch
v9 - "it's primarily designed around colour grading, but it also has some interesting dailies oriented features and a built-in 3D compositing environment. This year, Assimilate plans on releasing Scratch v9, its first update in quite a while." (redsharknews.com)
- [video] Colorist Alexis Van Hurkman: New Features in DaVinci Resolve 15 - from LumaForge's Faster Together stage, see the top features demo'ed you should know about (in 20 minutes)
from someone on the Resolve team. (youtu.be)
- Colour Management for Video Editors - "If you’re an editor looking to colour grade your own projects . . . How should you be managing your colour pipeline for the challenging multi-screen viewing environment of today?" (jonnyelwyn.co.uk)
- DaVinci Resolve 15 Public Beta 4
now available! - "get . . . fast gaussian blur on the Fusion page, clip level output blanking, colored nodes and more!" (twitter.com/blackmagic)
- LUFS audio standards update for May 2018 - for finishers that need to verify audio levels before delivering... "-14 LUFS export is now supported in Adobe, Auphonic, Hindenburg Journalist Pro and iZotope RX6." (provideocoalition.com)
- A Cheat Sheet for Social Media Video Aspect Ratios - "creating videos to publish on social media? Keep up with the latest aspect ratio settings with this handy reference guide." (premiumbeat.com)
- Roll Your Own Cloud Backups with Arq and B2 - "It’s surprising Apple still doesn’t offer iCloud backups for macOS. Time Machine requires a separate external drive or partition, making it feel long in the tooth. It’s a bizarre omission because Apple has every other piece in place to make it an offering." (tidbits.com)
- If You Use Word, You Need to Turn Off This One Feature - "this post is part of a weeklong series to help our readers improve their digital security." (motherboard.vice.com)
- Grass Valley Adds HDR Tools, Color Space Support to Edius
v9.2 - "among the color spaces supported in this version are Arri Alexa Log C and DJI’s D-Gamut/D-Log. A new color space templates manager allows users to deselect any unused presets and then share those modified template lists with other Edius systems." (studiodaily.com)
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- How long does the average Hollywood movie take to make? - "we built a database of 782 live-action studio-produced feature films, .. . we then scoured trades and traditional press outlets to find the earliest date for the . . . key milestones."
(stephenfollows.com)
- Amazon Channels Making a Splash in Subscription Video
Sales - "Amazon has reportedly become a significant reseller of late, performing on a larger scale than app stores from Google and Apple." (etcentric.org)
- How to Fix MoviePass - “one Wall Street analyst called MoviePass a joke that would be out of business in 18 months.” (hbr.org)
- How Sinemia’s Movie Subscription Works in Europe - “but whereas MoviePass subscribers pay $10 per month for up to one movie ticket a day, Sinemia’s members pay the same amount for just two movie tickets per month.” (etcentric.org)
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The stories featured in this section are from MixingLight.com, companion color correction membership website to TaoOfColor.com and paid sponsor of this Newsletter. Want to read a story listed here but not a member? Sign up for a free 7-Day Test Drive. - [video] Inspired By Lacoste, Timeless: Learning From An Award Winning Grade - what makes an award-winning grade so special? Dan attempts to break down what made the Lacoste, Timeless commercial so special and how you can pick
up some tips to use on your own grades. (mixinglight.com)
- Effective professional networking (without leaving the house) - learn some of my best tips and tricks for self-promotion and building a strong personal brand online, without feeling
weird or insincere - even if you're socially awkward and aren't good at 'networking'. (mixinglight.com)
- [video] How Hard Is It To Export A Broken LUT? - in an earlier Insight, you learned how to Stress Test your
Look Up Tables (LUTs) to discover if they are introducing artifacts in your images. Now, learn how easy (or hard) it is to export 'broken LUTs' in DaVinci Resolve. (mixinglight.com)
- [podcast] One Month Later: Mixing Light’s Take On NAB 2018 - “it's been a little over a month since NAB 2018. We sit down to discuss all the things we saw including our thoughts on Resolve 15, new HDR monitoring, control surfaces and more.” (mixinglight.com)
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- HPA NET at Microsoft - "NET invites you to be part of the conversation about a dozen of the most engaging topics affecting our industry. Choose the three topics that most interest you and join in the conversation!" Good topics. Los Angeles, June 7.
(eventbrite.com)
- THX Certified Video Calibration Hands-On Workshops - Being held in the UK, Burbank, San Diego, Singapore throughout 2018. Plus, they've added an HDR Calibration class. (lionavtech.com)
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- How To Make A Hybrid Timelapse - “sometimes parts of your scene look awful when displayed over long periods of time. In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can use real-time video to improve objects with oscillating movements.” Fun weekend project
for the summer. (fstoppers.com)
- Hands-On With the RED Hydrogen One - “The new RED Hydrogen One phone has some new and unique display features that got a lot of interest nine months ago.” The funny part (in a stupid way)... No one is allowed to see the screen. (fstoppers.com)
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- LG display shows 77” flexible 4K OLED screen - “the 77-inch flexible OLED screen . . . can be rolled up to a radius of 80mm without compromising any of its functionality.” Wait. What? (hdguru.com)
- [review] Best surge protector - for your computer you'll want a UPS device. But for everything else, these are good choices. (techhive.com)
- NetSpot Pro: Optimize Your Wi-Fi Connection - “NetSpot Pro arms you with the tools to deep dive into your Wi-Fi network, diagnose its problems and optimize your connection, and lifetime licenses are currently on sale for
80 percent off the usual price.” Mac and PC. (macworld.com)
- Production Tip: How to Calibrate Your Monitors on Set - “in the fast-paced world of digital filmmaking, it can be easy to underestimate the value of a properly calibrated monitor on set.” (premiumbeat.com)
- What You Need To Know About The Spectre-like 'Variant 4' CPU flaw - “now that the initial patching efforts for those CPU flaws are drawing to an end, Google and Microsoft have disclosed a related “speculative execution”
attack dubbed Speculative Store Bypass, or simply Variant 4. Don’t panic though.” (pcworld.com)
- [review] Razer Core X - an inexpensive eGPU that turns your MacBook Pro into an iMac, “the same Apple eGPU limitations remain, but this enclosure should serve well for years to come.” (macworld.com)
- RED’s new simplified system, and why it is cheaper - “RED’s camera line-up grew to the point it was a puzzle to get the camera you wanted. That ends now, said Jarred Land, and so the true, unified DSMC2, was born, pointing
to the future of RED.” No word if the old sensors can be used on their new phone's cameras. (provideocoalition.com)
- Setting up multiple monitors in Windows 10 - for those of you Mac users who recently made the switch. (pugetsystems.com)
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- NASA’s EM-drive is a magnetic WTF-thruster - "a group of researchers that may actually be competent and well-funded is investigating alternative thrust concepts. This includes our favorite, the
WTF-thruster EM-drive . . . [which] by some physics-defying magic, unicorns materialize and push you through space.” (arstechnica.com)
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- Delta launches 'Middle Seat Lounge' to celebrate awkward air chair - “the dreaded middle seat. It’s the bane of air travel and is one of the biggest First World problems around. At least, it was -- until Delta decided to do something about it.” This is the Tao Treasurer's reward for
all those years sitting in the middle. (campaignlive.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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