| Issue CDLXVII: The New Year Edition |
| The Tao of Color Grading Newsletter |
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Curated links of news, reviews, thoughts, career advice, and humor for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sundays.
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I take two Sundays off and already we're 10 days into 2021? Sheesh. It seems we can't run away from 2020 fast enough!
There's not much I want to say today. I should mention that the training company I co-founded, Mixing Light, is still offering a terrific 'Work From Home' sale that saves big money on memberships to our color grading website.
Also Mixing Light is in the midst of its 24 Insights In 24 Days New Year Marathon. If you're a member, check back there every day or so to see what's new.
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I'll see you next Sunday (and every Sunday, until the next major holiday).
Happy Grading!
(and remember - if you have a story that's a fit for this Newsletter, hit reply or email it to 'newsletter@taoofcolor.com'! Include a quick reason for the suggested link.)
- Patrick Inhofer
Colorist | Publisher | Coach
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Featuring the work of creative craftsmen, the theory of color, and industry news. Learn practical workflows, useful theories, and actionable insights from existing (and emerging) leaders and teachers in our industry.
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A great effort: "Blue Collar Post Collective (BCPC), a grassroots non-profit organization supporting emerging talent in post, has raised and distributed $10,920 directly to US-based post production workers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020." Details at the link.
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Click through and then access the full results on Google Drive or several downloadable formats. Over 1,400 respondents... including many readers of the Tao Newsletter.
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This is a good interview with Shane Hurlbut, ASC about the imaging pipeline for a new Disney+ original. They leveraged Resolve's flexible and easy proxy workflow to have camera original quality from dailies, through editorial, color, and final deliverables. It's a good read about a detailed workflow centered around the unique capabilities of DaVinci Resolve.
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If your New Year resolution includes gaining a better understanding of DCPs then this new SMPTE Virtual Course may be for you: "Learn about the benefits and practical considerations of using DCPs in common mastering and distribution workflows — including your own."
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A 10-week course to 'help you understand critical concepts and practical considerations across the HDR workflow'. This looks interesting for the more technically-inclined.
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Just so you know: "HDR10+ Adaptive, a profile designed to optimize TV picture quality based on a room’s ambient brightness."
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Our craft keeps changing. And growing. Learn about updates to your favorite software. Discover new tools to help you work faster or more creatively. Build your toolchest with new techniques and approaches.
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(video) Recorded for photographers (in Photoshop) this tutorial is also useful for digital video colorists who want to understand the difference.
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(video) Nice. "Using NDI and OBS as well as Nobe Display we can finally live stream the output of DaVinci Resolve without needing any hardware." This video shows you how to do it.
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This should help mightily when moving between Avid and other apps, assuming Avid can now also read this metadata on import: "With this release, you can choose a custom Color Space when exporting as MOV, MP4, or OpenEXR. Editors can also set Color Scaling to Legal or Full Range when exporting as MOV or MP4."
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(video) Colorist Darren Mostyn: "After a few days playing with the DaVinci Resolve 17 new Speed Editor I'm going to show you some top tips in under 10 minutes. Im also going to show you EXACTLY which functions in the Speed editor work in the Color Page too."
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Mostly I'm including this short blog post because the embedded dog-in-space' GIF is kind'a awesome. But if you're new to understanding bit rates (and don't know or have forgotten what the 'x' stands for in DNxHD 185x) then this is a quick intro.
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(video) "In Part 2 of this series, we dig deeper into the HDR Palette and continue exploring its differences from the traditional Primaries Palette." Presented by your Tao Newsletter publisher.
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(video) "Grading a one-shot music video shot on the Panasonic GH5 was challenging. Check out this Insight to learn Dan Moran's approach. Using Baselight."
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(video) Free, in front of the paywall: "The new DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor is a fantastic controller. Learn how to use it for color grading, online editing, and multicam workflows." An overview by colorist and finisher, Joey D'Anna. Free, in front of the paywall.
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(podcast) "A member asked for some advice on matching two shots that had distinctly different looks. In this Mailbag, we discuss strategies for matching these shots."
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Stay updated on the latest hardware that's shipping - because the craft of color grading isn't just about software. Plus, keep an eye on future equipment trends and hardware odds-and-ends.
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v1.63 "addresses an intermittent bug that could cause BoxIO to hang/crash in a very small percent of cases when switching from single to dual channel."
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This update includes, "LUT Interpolation now permanently set to Tetrahedral to ensure optimal performance."
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If you think the M1 MacBook Pro is a no-brainer purchase then you'll want to click through. You may think differently.
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"Puget Systems have tested multiple graphics cards from both NVIDIA and AMD that were released in the past four months. According to the results, AMD has still a lot of work to do in order to stay competitive in this particular application."
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Just in case you're not on GUID Partition Table (GPT) already: "Master Boot Record (MBR) is now considered a legacy configuration and has a number of limiting factors making it far less desirable for any storage devices currently used in your system."
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FYI: "Over three years after the launch . . . major products are now widely available that support HDMI 2.1 features including 4K@120Hz, 8K@60Hz, Dynamic HDR and eARC."
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"The nomenclature for 2021’s newest television technologies just got a lot more complicated — and confusing." Indeed.
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Random thoughts, tidbits, and fun stuff that caught my attention this week. Maybe it's color grading related. Maybe not. Ya got'ta read to the end of the Newsletter to find out.
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(video) If you like seeing how computer simulation experts are applying their work to still images, to make them come alive, then this is very fun. (via Robbie Carman)
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I honestly don't know how to think about this but it is a fun read: "In his first six years on the site, he had generated just 6 million views. But at the age of 18, with his full attention on YouTube, he earned 122 million annual views . . . He now generates 4 billion views a year. " (via Robbie Carman)
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| Th- th- th- that's all folks! I'll see you next Sunday. |
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