The Bézier Edition – Sunday Morning Color Grading Newsletter

2026 is well on its way as we head into Summer here in the upper globe 🙂

One obvious trend I’m seeing is the development of increasingly focused tools for digital video post professionals. It’s clear that Claude is catching on, and post-pros are selling new tools to solve real pain points.

But we have a problem. Many of the websites for these ‘vibe-coded’ apps or scripts tell you nothing about their creators. About pages are nowhere. No ‘social proof’. Nothing to hold them accountable.

I have to decide: Am I going to share these anonymously developed tools in this Newsletter?

My decision, being made at 10:24 p.m. on a Saturday:

Nope. No way.

If you want to see how this should be handled: Professionals coding useful tools for other professionals, check out Joey D’Anna’s new website for his new tools (I link to it below). That’s how a pro does it. He’s fully accountable. If something goes wrong, you know who you’re dealing with. And he has an incentive to fully vet his software before selling it.

Otherwise, you’re letting unknown players onto your production machines, who don’t have the guts to back up their work.

At a minimum, insist on an About Page you can verify.

Happy Grading!

Sincerely,

Pat Inhofer
Chief Photon Wrangler, Publisher
MixingLight.com

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This is interesting: “Performers’ digital replicas are now protected from crossing a picket line during a strike. Protections for minors on the use of their digital replica.”

A website that Daria Fissoun found while researching her LEGACY training: “Detailed information on over 250 individual film color processes via the classification system on this page, display the Timeline of Historical Colors in Photography and Film in chronological order, browse by image, search by color, search via the tag cloud at the end of this page or directly on the search page, or see the contributing archives’ collections on the header slides.”