We're deep into Holiday season. As a result, we've got stories about discounts and gift giving advice. Of course, be sure to pick a gift to buy for yourself!

This week I finally cracked open Resolve Fusion to create text animations for a corporate client. It's been a decade since I was a regular user of After Effects. It feels a lot like After Effects, except way more granular.

The big problem I'm running into is defining the comp size so animations created in a 1080 timeline scale properly to UHD. It's all good, until you add weird sized still elements - then it all goes haywire.

You'll read about it next month on Mixing Light when we do our 24 Insights in 24 Days New Years Marathon. I'm still pounding away at the proper workflow - but building text animations seems a great entry point into learning Fusion.

I need to get back to that corporate job and meet my deadline so I'm signing off here. And...

I'll see you next Sunday.

Happy Grading!

- Patrick Inhofer
  Colorist | Publisher | Mentor

[forum] Is this form of High Dynamic Range compatible with older TVs that don't have HDR support? Or not? And who's currently using HLG?
 

[video] Watch the trailer and a Behind the Scenes of Peter Jackson's new WWI documentary - with amazing restoration work (though the colorization in some of the trailer's excerpts hit Uncanny Valley for me).
 

An alternative to box office sales as a measure of a film's success, "[it] is similar to the metric used to rank the prestige of academic journals—known as the "impact factor"—or the citation index used to determine the relative importance and influence of individual papers on an academic field." Try to guess the Top 3 before clicking on this link (and I've provided a hint on one of them).
 

[video] A PSA you need to share on all your Social Media pages: Why everyone needs to turn off video interpolation on their new UHDTVs! Because otherwise, Cruise's movies will look like crud.

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Scott Simmons helps Resolve-based editors up their organizational abilities to those that FCPX editors enjoy.
 

There are good ideas for colorists, too.
 

Highlights of this update are new Video Router controls (including mapping these controls to a Tangent Device), new reference image display options, and searching for keyboard shortcuts in the keyboard mapper.
 

About the state of online-based computing solutions, from a VFX perspective.
 

[podcast] Our team answers a member question about how to handle periods of not feeling creative in the color suite.
 

Dan shares his thoughts on trying to clean up his grades in 2019 and moving away from his favorite film emulation techniques, which got him in trouble on a recent job.
 

[video] In Part 2, learn how to animate unrelated properties using Expressions. Using the Camera's Z-position we drive another element's Opacity.
 

Kill the bezel! This is getting to be popular among colorists. In fact, your Newsletter publisher's business partner, colorist Robbie Carman, just bought one. I'm sure he'll report his findings in the near future.
 

They test the newest Mac Mini, using an eGPU, to see if can replace other Macs in Apple's 'Pro' lineup. Results vary by app.
 

A comprehensive roundup for anyone using (or thinking of using) this awesome programmable USB button controller.
 

After explaining what these attacks are, and how they work, this article describes the performance hit your CPU is likely to take after executing the BIOS updates.
 

This high-end desktop GPU is sure to be on everyone's radar in 2019. Here's an early overview.
 

USA penetration of UHD by 2023 is significant. And all of this happening without terrestrial broadcasters leading the charge.
 

[video] Funny, in a twisted way.
 

Just in time for the holidays. And it specifically makes a device recommendation for HDR content that I fully agree with.