A live event: "Our three free courses cover the fundamentals of color grading, color spaces and media management in Baselight. Each day will also include a comprehensive presentation by Dolby of the Dolby Vision mastering process for HDR and SDR delivery." November 16-18. Registration required.

For my UK readers: "The NFTS Virtual Production Certificate is a six-month course. Participants will be introduced to the core technical and filmmaking required to work on virtual production projects using Unreal Engine." (via Willian Aleman)

This is worth knowing about: "MovieLabs, a technology joint venture of the major Hollywood movie studios, has published the first version of a common ontology for production technologists ... a conceptual framework and a set of defined terms to enable both people and software to communicate unambiguously with greater data interoperability."

"The super-smart assistants coming our way are just that—assistants—and the people who adopt these tools will become more creative, not less. And there will be more of us, too."

(video) Friend of the Tao, Sam Mestman, is joined by OWC's Steven Niedzielski in this previously recorded webinar about the present and future of remote collaboration: "Keeping teams connected is the goal, and new technology is simply the means to get there. Join the conversation to see what Steven and Sam are seeing as current-day best practices and where they see these trends going over the next few years."

(video) "This week we're going to look at expanding your Resolve repertoire and find tools your may be overlooking in your workflow."

If the software scope OmniScope Pro is too expensive for you but the less expensive Photo version is too feature restricted then take a look at their new Video version. In my opinion, for full-time colorists, the HSL scope, blanking detection, and HDR stats are worth the price of the Pro version. But for others, the Video version may be just what you're looking for.

For my on-set friends. There are some interesting new features.

(webinar) This free webinar features as a guest speaker color scientist Dr. Charles Poynton: "Registration open: We've all seen the 1931 CIE RGB Chromaticity Chart. But do you understand it well enough to use it in your work?" Thursday, October 21, 11am Eastern.

(video) "In Part 7, Colorist Cullen Kelly shows how to add split-toning into the custom DCTL. Then he debugs and commits it to the main GitHub branch."

(video) "Colorist Patrick Inhofer shares a behind-the-scenes look at color grading an animated short film - and how it differs from live-action."

"Imagine a world where digital objects escape the screen and integrate seamlessly with reality. That world is here now, thanks to Light Field Lab and its holographic video walls." There are good details about the technology in this article.

"Users have to really know what they are getting from 10GbE, and how it will help them, before shelling out the money for that upgrade.  But there is a way to leverage the performance and bandwidth offered by 10GbE without investing hundreds or thousands of dollars in an expensive switch."

Think: DoVi demo reels for you to demo to your clients who are thinking of going HDR and Dolby Vision.

(video) This time, William Shatner was part of the payload, making Captain Kirk a real astronaut. A replay of the launch is embedded in this news item.

This drink - and the Manhattan - have become my favorite go-to adult beverages. Mostly, because you can sip on them all night and not get comments about how you're not drinking ;-)