This is an interesting write-up.

"In this video, we’ll look at the general theory of a color managed workflow.  In the next part in this series, we will look specifically at After Effects."

"Light Iron colorists Ian Vertovec and Ethan Schwartz detail the big-screen look of the FX series The Old Man."

"What can we learn from RED Digital Cinema’s lawsuits? We’re referring to two lawsuits although there’re more ... What’re the differences between them? How many patents are involved? Can RED win? Let’s talk a bit about the patent war for raw (backward of war :-))"

"Throughout “The Sandman,” distorted images show the cast with elongated faces and stretched visuals, giving the series a surreal feeling. Will Baldy, Sam Heasman and George Steel serve as the show’s cinematographers. The group has yet to comment on the type of lenses they used to film the production." (via Marc Wielage)

I may have mentioned it in the previous Newsletter, but it's worth mentioning again: Resolve colorists, finishers, and developers should check out the latest docs released over the past 3 weeks - including a new Fuse Plugin Guide and Reference for Fusion.

(video) "In this short video, learn how to quickly and easily lasso control points of shapes in the colour tab of DaVinci Resolve. I didn't know this one for an embarrassingly long amount of time - so hopefully this helps a few folks out!"

(video) Cullen Kelly: "Saturation is important, but the default tool in Resolve doesn't really provide us with the best option. Watch to dive deep into getting better saturation, and other options within Resolve to get the color you want."

"Avid and Amazon Studios have announced a three-year agreement to bring cloud-based editorial to Amazon Studios’ slate of more than 300 original movies and series.

Creative teams will get the same experience and performance as an on-premises editorial bay — including collaborative workflows with shared storage and end-to-end media management — without the complexity and time required to set up and tear down traditional hardware."

"Masv Multiconnect allows the MASV app to combine multiple internet connections, for example, 5G + Wifi, Ethernet + Starlink, or Ethernet + 5G, etc., to send and receive files at up to 3X faster speeds."

"Adobe shares how to handle blown out HDR footage in Adobe Premiere Pro and where the footage is currently handled best: the public Beta version."

"Final Cut Pro recently introduced some advanced tracking, masking, and color grading tools, so I wanted to see how well they worked when combined with a difficult color adjustment. And I had just the thing."

"The larger the team, the more complex the data flow, with different versions of the same software, different operating systems, different file storage, and different workflows ... My goal with this article is to provide an understanding of the common pitfalls that you’re likely to experience, and to provide a checklist you can use to troubleshoot common issues."

"We look at the best virtualisation and virtual machine software, and consider other ways you can run Windows and Windows apps on a Mac"

(video) "Colorist Joey D'Anna breaks down his color grade of an indie feature - showing how he executed the goals & technical challenges of this film."

(video) "In Part 3 of Cullen Kelly's 'Flexing Fundamentals' series, learn how to think about organizing contrast adjustments to improve your results."

(video) "Mixing Light Contributors talk with Hedge.video's Isaac Terronez about affordable remote collaboration using Postlab and Postlab Drive."

(video) "In Part 17 of our 'Learning Baselight' series, Luke Ross compares grade versions using Baselight's powerful 'cursor' and Jobs manager."

(video) "In Part 2 of Jason Bowdach's series on glow effects, get a close look at the Sapphire S_UltraGlow and the additional options it offers."

Click through for the lineup: "FSI is pleased to announce that we are replacing our popular 21.5" - 55" BM series monitors with even more powerful DM series equivalents."

"Blackmagic Design CEO Grant Petty has issued a statement on the company’s Facebook page announcing that they have had to increase the prices of their products across the board due to inflation."

"It features two redundant power supplies and an M.2 NVMe SSD drive array, which is configured as RAID-5 for data protection in case of drive failure. Cloud Store integrates an internal 10G Ethernet switch for up to four users connected at 10Gbps speeds. It also supports port aggregation for a combined speed of 40Gbps."

Oliver Peters: "I’m not a fan of either the Resolve database format for projects nor parking your projects in the cloud. However, the storage products don’t require the Blackmagic Cloud and that opens up a number of possibilities."

(video) Luke Ross' icon set and button layouts are very clean. If you run with a Stream Deck (or thinking about it), this is worth a watch.

"This video shows you how to enable the Elgato Stream Deck with SCRATCH and Live FX."

Some interesting ideas in this article: "This beginner/intermediate article documents swap-out, archiving, and reloading RAID sets; my actual experience as it happens. In detail."

"Engineers at Nvidia have teamed with Stanford University researchers to develop a virtual reality headset that looks and feels more like a regular pair of eyeglasses, according to a research paper presented at SIGGRAPH 2022."