The Buck-ee’s Edition – The Sunday Color Grading Weekly Newsletter

July 13, 2025

This week.. Streaming synthetic grain, success in a time of change, Resolve 20 full reference manual, PCIe 5.0, 55" with 4,000nits, and more.


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Issue DCXXII: The Buc-ee’s 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, 13 July 2025

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Netflix is rolling out this technology at scale, click through for the technical details: “Grain, formed from tiny particles during the film’s development, is more than just a visual effect. It plays a key role in storytelling by enhancing the film’s depth and contributing to its realism. However, film grain is as elusive as it is beautiful. Its random nature makes it notoriously difficult to compress. Traditional compression algorithms struggle to manage it, often forcing a choice between preserving the grain and reducing file size …

We’re giving members globally a transformed streaming experience with the recent rollout of AV1 Film Grain Synthesis (FGS) streams.”

“Moonvalley has officially launched Marey, its AI video generation platform designed specifically for professional filmmakers and built exclusively on licensed data. The platform promises to address Hollywood’s biggest concerns about AI video tools by offering frame-perfect control and commercially safe outputs.”


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