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DaVinci Resolve: New 3-Way Color Correction Interface
Resolve 8.0.1 just introduced this new mouse-driven 3-Way interface If the lack of a 3-Way Color Correction interface has been holding you back from adopting DaVinci Resolve for Mac – BlackMagic...
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Resolve 8 Tutorial & Training: Now Available!
The Color Correction MasterClass Has Re-Opened! It’s here! I’ve re-opened the MasterClass training with new pricing, new packages, and new training! In addition to what I call the “Final Cut Studio...
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What’s Your Specialty? Career Advice to Keep You Earning
Earlier this week I got an email with the subject line: “The Personal Business of Being A Colorist” I immediately knew this email was about career advice. It’s a email from a 20-year veteran. He...
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DaVinci Resolve 8.1.1 Lite – NOT!
The $995 Resolve Tax Is Gone Around here on the Tao, it goes without saying that BlackMagic DaVinci Resolve ‘dot’ updates are usually much bigger than they sound. Today DaVinci Resolve has been...
View ArticleCineGrain: A Film Grain ‘Plug-In’ In Your Pocket
A Video Review and Tutorial What is Cinegrain? Product Website: www.CineGrain.com If you want to add film grain or mimik certain types of film looks (Super 8mm, Silent Film, film flashes, lens flares)...
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First Look: Tangent Element
Say Hello to the 'Tangent Element' Colorist Control Surface The ‘Tangent Element’ is the newest colorist control surface on the market and just started shipping about 3 weeks ago. The Tao of Color...
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Interview: Ben Franklin & Anthony Melton – Bloody Cuts
Part 1: “Practicing Your Craft” The ‘Tao of Color’ podcast lurches back to life this week! Join me as I talk with the two raving lunatics behind the Horror Anthology website, BloodyCuts! Yes, we all...
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How to color correct a horror film (using DaVinci Resolve 9)
Update: This training is now available for sale! Check it out here Announcing: Tao of Color’s Grade–Along Series When I started this website in 2010 there were three things I wanted to do with my...
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Interview Bloody Cuts Part 2: Dead Man’s Lake – The Client Brief
Color Correcting Dead Man’s Lake In Part 2 we get down to specifics… what do Ben and Anthony want from the color correction of the sixth installment in their horror short film anthology series, Dead...
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Tao of Color Announces a New Website: MixingLight.com
Can you imagine… …A website that covers a broad swath of the craft of color correction? Plug-ins for NLEs. Pre-production tips for DPs and Directors. Workflow suggestions for small productions staffed...
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Announcing: Colorist Flight School LIVE! 2013
Introducing Our New 3-Day Workshops Tweet I am very pleased to announce that Tao of Color is now offering live training workshops in seven cities around the United States in the Summer / Fall of 2013....
View ArticleGetting SpectraCal’s ‘Color Checker’ and ‘Virtual Forge’ Working on One Mac
In September and October the Tao Colorist Newsletter ran a special with SpectraCal (it’s still available if you click through here). It was a 4-piece bundle allowing you to check the accuracy of your...
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Announcing Mother Died: A New Grade Along
I’ve been dropping hints in the Tao Colorist Newsletter. I’ve Tweeted about it a few times. And if you’re an existing owner of a previous Grade-Along or MasterClass, you’ve read about my plans. But...
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Sample Content: Prerendering and DaVinci Resolve
Tweet The new banner for the Members side of our ‘Mother Died: The Grade-Along’ color correction training (featuring DaVinci Resolve 10) Here at Tao HQ we’ve been busy little Elves getting our new...
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NEW! The Color Correction Home Study : Is it for you?
Tweet The Mother Died Color Correction Home Study features DaVinci Resolve 10 Wouldn’t you love to stop struggling color correcting video? I struggled with it for many years. I was a...
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Answering the Essential Color Correction Question: Am I Doing This Right?
A website dedicated to video and film professionals. This is a quick post shouting-out a new article on ProVideoCoalition.com. Their fearless leader Jeremiah Karpowicz interviewed me about learning...
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Color that’s a joy to drive?
If you’ve never heard of Stu Maschwitz you’ve definitely heard of the products he helps design and sell, notably: Colorista and Magic Bullet Looks for Red Giant Software. Just before NAB 2015 he wrote...
View ArticleIs Hollywood Depressed?
This weekend the Tao Treasurer and I went to the movies (yes, we still go to actual live movie theaters). As usual the previews were 20 minutes long and since we hadn’t been to a theater in a few...
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What Are The Origins of Post-Production’s ‘Gamma Wars’?
Is THIS the start of the Gamma Wars? From the original QuickDraw Manual. A few weeks ago I put a link into the Sunday Newsletter about a 2014 BBC White Paper on High Dynamic Range video. It’s a dense...
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DaVinci Resolve 12 – Little Gems #1
(plus, why this Gem is slightly cracked) What’s one of the fun things when working in a brand new, completely updated version of the software you use professionally? Why, discovering all the little...
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