| Issue CDXII: The 2019 Summer Break Edition |
| The Tao of Color Grading Newsletter |
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Curated links of news, reviews, thoughts, career advice, and humor
for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sundays.
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Our craft keeps changing. And growing. Learn about updates to your favorite software. Discover new tools to help you work faster or more creatively. Build your toolchest with new techniques and approaches.
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(forum) This links to the description of various fixes and improvements in the Beta 7 release. These last two releases are primarily stability releases. When do I think we'll see the final shipping release of Resolve 16? I put 3:1 odds on the first half of September. And 2:1 odds that they drop some major new feature on us with the final shipping release :-)
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(video) Click through on the still image to go to Moviola's website for their quick start on the Fusion page.
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A plugin for FCPX and Premiere Pro, it allows you to mix a combination of LUTs.
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Colorist & Finisher Joey D'Anna has evolved his grading suite in the past 2 years. See how new hardware has adjusted his layout to fit new, advanced workflows. Plus, check out how he uses the new Stream Deck XL with his fixed node trees!
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Stay updated on the latest hardware that's shipping - because the craft of color grading isn't just about software. Plus, keep an eye on future equipment trends and camera odds-and-ends.
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Their conclusion sums up this discussion pretty well.
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"Resolve tends to behave very different than Adobe applications . . . we are very interested to see how these new AMD Ryzen CPUs (which feature both an increase in core count and IPC improvements) perform."
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The only bit of advice I offer on this topic to working colorists: Feed the output of your workstation into a proper LUT box - and then into the consumer display. Then calibrate to generate a proper 3D LUT. The result can be very workable.
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Can you use a computer display to reference color and contrast? This review looks at a BenQ to try and answer that question.
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"Here’s an excellent piece on the Evils of Motion Smoothing in monitors, featuring a great quote from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane." (via Marc Wielage)
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Random thoughts, tidbits, and fun stuff that caught my attention this week. Maybe it's color grading related. Maybe not. Ya got'ta read to the end of the Newsletter to find out.
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(video) Bob Ross, the master of "happy little trees", painted thousands of canvasses. But you can't find one to buy. Check out this terrific mini-doc that unearths what happened to his paintings.
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For our Southern Hemisphere readers where the days are shorter, colder and gaming is a welcome diversion.
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| Th- th- th- that's all folks! See you on Sunday, September 8! Have a great August. |
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