The Sycamore Tree Edition – The Sunday Color Grading Newsletter

As promised in the last edition, we are back – two Sundays later.

There’s lots to go through, and I have much more lined up for the coming weeks.

A new Mixing Light Insight release this coming week has me jazzed today. We’re calling it the ‘Colorist Comparison’.

Two colorists get the same footage, with the same direction, and grade it. Then, they get together and compare their workflows, approaches, and node trees.

I think it turned out great. I’m excited for our members to see it in action. The recording was over an hour long, so we broke it into two parts. Part 1 covers interpreting the director’s notes, their challenges with the footage, deciding where to diverge from the notes, and then sharing their final grades.

Part 2 goes into the nitty-gritty of process and execution.

It’s a rare type of sharing that we hope to do more of on Mixing Light. Hopefully, our members will agree.

Quick note about next week

I may need to skip next Sunday’s newsletter. Mixing Light Central’s relocation didn’t go as expected. It seems the wrong tree species was planted in front of our new digs so that the final inspections couldn’t be done, and the Certificate of Occupancy couldn’t be issued.

What a tree has to do with a house’s suitability to be human-occupied is beyond this mortal’s understanding. But it makes sense to the County, and they’re in control (maybe the main point?).

It’s a long way of saying that I may be too busy with the final move to publish this Newsletter. OTOH, I don’t have much else to do this week, so if I plan my time right, I can fill next week’s edition with my story backlog and schedule it by Wednesday.

Happy Grading!

I’ll see you next Sunday (or the following)!

Sincerely,

Pat Inhofer
Chief Photon Wrangler, Publisher
MixingLight.com