Juan Ignacio Cabrera shares his mindmap on all the various decisions that factor into starting your own shop. Download the PDF for full-resolution viewing.

Interesting that Sony's limiting this new service to their own TVs: "Sony has today announced its own video streaming service that will launch on the company's XR range of 2021 TVs. It serves 4K and IMAX Enhanced movies at 'up to 80 Mbps'." Yet another deliverable?

Click through for the full T-CAM v2 description, it looks good. Plus: "Partial Conform . . . Lens Distortion and an expanded Look Library. New features to improve confidence and collaboration with other departments are also included, such as improved trackers, wildcards for sequence versioning, improved export facilities, and more."

Oliver Peters offers sage advice for how to start off a new project using proper organizational habits.

This is nifty: "the method we’re going to outline here is a bit different. It allows you to install Windows on an external drive without first having Windows installed on a PC or in a virtual environment."

This is nuts: "Starting with Windows 10 1803 and continuing to this day is a simple and rather uncouth trick to corrupt a NTFS disk and prompt a reboot, which may not successfully launch.  It is a single line which can be delivered via a variety of methods including a ZIP archive, batch files, or even an shortcut and in the case of the shortcut you don’t need to launch it; it’s mere existence is enough to trash your drive."

(video) Colorist Cullen Kelly: "Learn how to establish good color management and clear definitions for your look development workflow."

(video) "In Part 3 of this series, learn how the color grading controls work differently with RCM 2 enabled. Plus, contrast control in the HDR Palette."

(video) This Insight is both a video podcast and an article overview: "SetStream.io is a powerful new remote streaming tool. In this Insight, we sit down to chat with Thatcher Kelley to learn more about SetStream.io"

(video) "We welcome new contributor Jason Druss to Team Mixing Light as he kicks off his new 'Good Grades' series talking to top colorists. First up Supervising Colorist and facility owner, Shawn King."

(video) "How easy is it to do final finishing in Baselight? Dan Moran shares his approach to adding titles, audio, compositing, and rendering"

When you look at OWC's portfolio, this acquisition makes sense. I congratulate both companies and wish them further success. What happens if you own a Jellyfish? "Jellyfish and LumaForge customers will continue receiving the support and development, while this trusted technology will flourish and have a whole new level of support and engagement within the OWC family."

Click through for a checklist / order of operations when calibrating your display. PDF version is available for download.

If you're struggling with this choice, especially for an assist station there are interesting differences.

Professional editor Scott Simmons offers his perspective on this bit of kit: "When it comes to basic cutting with the Speed Editor there is no doubt you can zip around footage with an ease that isn’t really possible on a keyboard."

Interesting: "The high level of coverage of Rec 2020 is important, as is the use of three different light sources. These should combine to make the colour volume of the displays very impressive and make the sets look better than LCDs."