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| 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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If you're in the USA then remember, your clocks fall back 1 hour this morning. Enjoy the extra hour! Welcome to November.
I'll see you next week.
Happy Grading!
(and remember - if you have a story that's a fit for this Newsletter, hit reply or email it to '[email protected]'! 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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"Most video content is graded to match Rec 709, if intended for broadcast viewing on TVs, or DCI P3 for cinema. If you are streaming or using UltraHD Blu-Ray, you can go wider than that. So who is doing that?" There are interesting observations in this article.
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'Tis the season for such a ghoulish story.
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(videos) Topics cover sports, ATMOS, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Vision conversion. It's well worth the low low price of your email address and app download.
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This is a long article. But if you want to know what it takes to get your infrastructure certified to handle Hollywood-level content then scroll down halfway and start reading. (via Robbie Carman)
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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 tool chest with new techniques and approaches.Â
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(video) An outstanding tutorial on color management and Log>Lin (and back out again) in Resolve's Fusion page. Plus, when *not* to do this conversion?
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By AI they really mean Machine Learning (but who am I to rain on their marketing parade?). Still, there are some good features if you need transcriptions and captions.
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Postlab supports multiuser FCPX workflows and has now added remote shared storage: "Since it functions much like DropBox, Drive can also be used by team members who aren’t actively engaged in editing. As a media volume, files on Drive are also accessible to Avid Media Composer and DaVinci Resolve editors." More details in the article.
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"Let’s take a look at some of the updates, news, and highlights of interest to film and video professionals as Premiere Pro gets faster, After Effects gets smarter, and the Cloud gets bigger and better than ever."
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(video) "Lightroom's latest update did away with the split toning panel, but in its place is a much more robust color editing panel that allows you to color grade much more like you would in Photoshop..."
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"It struck once more! The Blackmagic/FCPX 'gotcha' that I swore I'd never be caught by again. Why doesn't the selected [display] output work with Final Cut Pro X [using Blackmagic hardware]?" An annoying problem with a simple solution - if you remember to look for it.
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(video) "In Part 2 of this advanced workflow series, learn how you can use Shared Nodes inside Group Grades for quick & easy revisions down the road."
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(videos) "You want to be great at creating Looks – because every one of your clients will ask for a Look, eventually. Mixing Light has a deep bench of ‘Looks’ Insights. These are a sampling of our Insights on the topic of Look creation."
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(video) "Learn how to use Resolve's Gallery for comparing and sharing color corrections or nodes between different 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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"Considering that a single RTX 3090 24GB is $1000 less than a Titan RTX and has close to the same performance as two RTX 2080 Ti 11GB cards, this also makes editing 8K media more accessible than ever before." Pretty charts are just a click away.
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"While each GPU you add can increase the performance in Resolve by roughly 50% for each card, be aware that we would highly recommend waiting before pulling the trigger on getting multiple RTX 3080 or 3090 GPUs..." Why should you wait? The answer is in the second paragraph of the article.
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"The film and TV industry needs to kick the CRI habit, no matter what it’s replaced with." Why? It takes a bit of an explanation.
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(video) "This Working From Home storage solutions discussion from Adobe Video World focused on making sure your storage solutions are optimized as you adapt to the new normal."
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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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For a certain breed, this is a whole lot of fun.
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| Th- th- th- that's all folks! See you next Sunday. |
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