Marc Weilage writes in about this website, "It’s a free service, and if nothing else, it puts things in perspective and might provide some inspiration for new looks and ideas. The “Timeline of Historical Colors” is a fascinating read for people into the theoretical side."

"By shooting on IMAX 70mm film, you’re really letting the screen disappear. You’re getting a feeling of 3D without the glasses. You’ve got a huge screen and you’re filling the peripheral vision of the audience. You’re immersing them in the world of the film."

Click through to see if Oppenheimer will be playing in 70mm film at a theater near you. It's only about 30 theaters worldwide. Since the movie was shot on film - and being projected from film at these locations - it's an increasingly rare chance to watch true digital intermediate image processing.

We all love working on short films. It's also important to remember what our clients' end-goal are. This is an interesting conversation on the topic of the business-case for short films, "The premise behind any short film was that it wasn't just a calling card, but it was a transactional piece of IP. That’s what Prospect was. The short film was the IP for the feature film."

Scroll down halfway through the article to get the details on what one Hollywood audio mixer says is the problem, "Specifically, it has everything to do with LKFS, which stands for “Loudness, K-weighted, relative to full scale” and which, for the sake of simplicity, is a unit for measuring loudness."

Marc Wielage writes into the Newsletter, "Fincher has some very interesting comments about the mastering process. Having worked in this area a lot over the past decade, I can say it’s possible to “coax out” more detail from the negative than you might think, but I concede that HDR is a challenge for films shot on 35mm negative."

If indie films are a big part of your business, you need to keep paying attention to this: "Most of the prestige titles from last year were box-office flops, and no art-house movie has cracked $20 million in the US this year."

An interesting and seemingly honest discussion of the writer's strike from a streamer's perspective that boils down to, 'What's the least amount we can get away with paying for everything?'

Click through for the full list of bug fixes.

(video) Igor Radinovc, "In this video series, I'll demonstrate proof-of-concept OpenAI GPT and DaVinci Resolve integrations, starting with a virtual Resolve assistant."

From Stefan at Monodes, "The “Hue Twist” DCTL works by ‘twisting’ hue values towards their neighboring colors, but the interesting aspect here is that it does so based on the brightness value of the respective hue. Darker areas are automatically shifted towards the opposite adjacent hue value than lighter areas, adding a depth of complexity to the color manipulation process that goes beyond standard hue shift methods."

"The company has had its Gen-1 tool, which modifies existing videos to make them look different (ex: turning people into Claymation), available to everyone for months, but Gen-2 takes simple text prompts such as "robot drinking a beer" and turns them into clips."

(video) "In this step-by-step guide, we'll cover the basics of creating a map animation, including how to import and animate map images, add icons or markers, and adjust camera movements for a more dynamic effect."

"OffShoot is essentially Hedge but with a new name, new price, and many new features." The beta period discount ends June 23.

(video) A good, pithy overview, "Yesterday Flanders Scientific announced a new XMP550 55" QD-OLED HDR Mastering Monitor and today at Cine Gear 2023 we got to see it in person."

The problem as they see it? Samsung Display isn't shipping these in large enough sizes yet. I guess I agree; I have an alert set at B&H Photo for Sony's 77" version for the Tao HQ home theater.

"A smart short-throw projector that takes up minimal space and offers up to 120 inches of clear, crisp 4K video" with HDR-10+ and Dolby Vision support. But the article has no details on colorimetry.

"The devices can connect via Bluetooth ... to up to three computers with a dedicated switch to choose which computer you currently want to toss input at."

"The “i” era is over, but the re-branding is very minor considering a Core i9 becomes a Core 9, and so on."

Click through for the Press Release, in case you missed it.

"If you need Pro 25GbE for the recently announced 2023 Mac Pro, then Sonnet has a solution."

"At the fxguide tech lab we have been lucky enough to have been using the new M2 Ultra Studio for a couple of weeks – and here’s why you, as a VFX professional care ... it is really suited to VFX machine learning. And just to prove it – the Foundry’s Nuke (with machine learning / CopyCat) now runs natively on M2 Silicon and flies on the Apple M2 Studio."

"The reason for the massive performance improvement is that Apple added a memory controller chip to the M2 generation that balances the load between all of M2 Ultra’s cores – M1 Ultra required the ram to be maxed out before using all cores." The rest of the article is worth reading if you use Apple gear.

Perfect Father's Day gift for the right dad.

If you're young enough (or old enough) to have some extra downtime then you'll find something fun in here.