"Ryan Laney ... recently completed work on the documentary feature Welcome to Chechnya where he worked with the filmmakers to develop and employ a novel technique to protect identities ... As a result of his work and achievements, this week Laney joined the Academy as one of its newest members." Very interesting.

(video) This is a good primer about premultiplication and why it's important in compositing operations.

(video) "Daria Fissoun, a trainer for Blackmagic’s Davinci Resolve, discusses the best settings to use to cover your bases when it comes to exporting your footage for the web."

This update "adds HDR waveforms, a new dual-view vectorscope, and new 3D LUT export and conversion functionality to assist look control further."

"Final Cut has a strange way of naming items in the Libraries Sidebar. Let’s break it down to get some clarity."

This article has some interesting third-party keyboard launchers that I'll be exploring this summer.

(podcast) "It's been a challenging past year and a half. In this episode, we discuss getting back to the studio/office/facility and what that means these days."

"Once we were attacked, I realized I needed to add in a way to backup and protect the project files and all other production elements that weren’t shot. And I needed to provide a way to keep a rolling backup, if possible, to give us some type of look-back period to retrieve versions a few days old."

Tao Newsletter sponsor OWC posts about the differences between U.2, M.2, and SATA drives and why they think their new U.2 enclosure is a terrific solution for fast offloads and delivery to the client.

This definitely looks like a fun summer project that doesn't require you to be stuck indoors in a neutrally colored windowless room.