The Yellow Brick Road Edition – Sunday Color Grading Newsletter

August 24, 2025

This Week: Immersive cinema, challenging cinema landscape, delicious Legos, simple node trees, and more...


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Issue DCXXVI: The Yellow Brick Road 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, 24 August 2025

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Curated & Published
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Patrick Inhofer
From The Publisher
A few quick Mixing Light notes:

– Thursday, we are hosting a discussion with Tim Chistyakov from Neat Video about noise reduction on Office Hours LIVE! All Premium members are invited to join us.

– Recently added to Deals and Steals: A Steal for Nobe Omniscopes and one for Filmlab AI. Check them out!

Finally, next weekend is the Labor Day holiday. I’m not sure if this Newsletter will publish, so…

I’ll see you next Sunday – or the following.

Enjoy the Newsletter!

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.

(video) A super-interesting behind the scenes about a next-level immersive cinema experience found only in Las Vegas: “[The] Sphere is presenting the Judy Garland classic as you’ve never seen it – a 16K immersive experience on a screen larger than four football fields, with tornado effects, and artists and AI expanding the visions of Emerald City.” (via Shawn King)

“Colour is one of the quickest ways a poster can tell you what kind of film it’s selling. Before you’ve read the title or registered the actors, your brain has already clocked the palette and filed it against a lifetime of genre expectations …

I wanted to take a data-led look at colours on movie posters, so I gather a few (well, 58,687) and analysed how different kinds of movies make use of each colour. Before we go colour-by-colour, let’s get a general sense of colourful movie posters are.”

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