The Hector Edition – The Sunday Morning Color Grading Newsletter

November 30, 2025

This week: A new waveform visualization, dark Hollywood revisited, Black Friday all around, SSDs losing data, F1 steering wheels, and more...


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Issue DCXXXIV: The Hector Edition

The Color Grading Newsletter

News, reviews, thoughts, career advice, and humor for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sundays. Curated by a professional color grader and the CEO of MixingLight.com.
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Sunday, 30 November 2025

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Patrick Inhofer
From The Publisher
As the Thanksgiving weekend comes to a close and the ritual fasting begins to shed the 5 pounds we all gained over the past few days, there’s not much in this Newsletter. Other than Black Friday sales – many of which end in the next 48 hours.

And… Omniscope now features a new waveform visualization in its latest Beta release, which is novel.

Enjoy this week’s Newsletter!

I’ll see you next Sunday and…

Happy Grading!

Sincerely,

Pat Inhofer
Chief Photon Wrangler, Publisher
MixingLight.com

PS – If you find an item you think should be in this newsletter, email me a quick note.

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The Craft
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.
“In his review for the New Yorker, Justin Chang asked: “Why is everything in this movie, for all its lavishly gilded, emerald-studded set design, either too dim or too bright – so blindingly backlit that Oz seems to be under perpetual thermonuclear attack, or so murky that you could scarcely tell a monkey from a Munchkin?””

This item was sent in by Marc Wielage, who writes, “I’ve seen Wicked 2 in a big full-featured IMAX theater, and it looked perfectly fine to me … it seems like the movie was fine, the cinematography was terrific, and the final lighting done by Alice Books was fabulous. I think the critics are crazy… Not dark at all, at the screening we saw, which was packed with a very loud, appreciative crowd… 

Great color as always from lead colorist Jill Bogdanovich of CO3. As far as I see, the filmmakers got exactly what they wanted in the look.”

Now I’m going to have to check it out this week to see with whom I agree 🙂

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