NAB in April isn't happening in 2021. But the Annual Colorist Mixer is: "Sessions will include discussions on grading in a new country and the new normal, HDR monitors, questions for successful working colorists, grading tips and techniques from instructors plus two quizzes, many prizes and social hours." Saturday, April 17, 3pm - 9pm New York Time. $10 US.

The physical NAB show in Las Vegas is postponed until October. But you can sign up for their virtual event, running April 12-23.

Help a friend out! In 2019 the Berlin-based colorist community did a salary survey. In 2020 they expanded their survey to make it global. Help them out by participating! Your answers will help newcomers to the field understand going rates, based on city, and will help sustain colorist salaries.

(video) "The [embedded] video includes never-before-seen BTS clips from the making of season 2 and dives into StageCraft 2.0 and Helios, the ILM real-time cinematic render engine used to create the in-camera visual effects and environments in the volume for the series."

A good, short read.

(video) Luke Ross is adding video tutorials to his free PDF guide on conforming: "In the first video, we'll learn how editors should correctly hand over files to a colourist for online finishing."

A review: "Let’s look at CineMatch, a new plugin from FilmConvert. We’ll discuss how to use it and if it’s actually worth your time."

"Silverstack Lab helps DITs automatically manage media, color, and metadata, and now it connects to Frame.io for faster and easier dailies." Click through for the details.

For my on-set brothers and sisters: "This article describes a comprehensive dailies workflow that can make life simpler for the editor and the sound mixer while maintaining the highest quality."

Personally, I find Resolve Fairlight to be very empowering on my personal projects. Editors will likely feel the same way. I haven't checked out this training but Ripple is reputable and it should be high-quality. It's currently on sale.

Side note: I have gone through the free Fairlight PDF training book on Blackmagic's website. It's a fantastic workbook by Mary Plummer and I very much recommend it.

(video) "In Part 1 of a new series, Jason Bowdach shows you how to get projects to ColourLab AI and how to build a match across a scene using this powerful tool."

(video) "Learn how to massively expand the functionality of Premiere's Lumetri panel by custom-mapping multiple disparate controls with an external control surface."

"As is common, they gave four months grace to allow QNAP to develop and distribute a fix for the flaws and that time has now expired so they published their results, which The Register posted details on."

"Whether the new 11th Gen Intel Core processors are a good investment for DaVinci Resolve depends on a number of factors including your budget and how important Fusion performance is in your workflow."

"If you’re energy-conscious, you might be wondering if you’re wasting power by putting your Mac in Power Nap mode instead of turning it off. Well, it turns out that your Mac uses energy even when it is plugged in and turned off!"

If you think remote collaboration isn't temporary then you may be wondering how much it'll cost to buy a home in a different city? This visual map is fun to look at. But depending on where you want to move, it may not be very funny. (via Robbie Carman)

On a colorist chat on Clubhouse, Luke Cahill turned me on to this YouTube channel dedicated to the craft of art restoration. It's really well done. This is the first one I started watching. Definitely fun. I'm hooked.