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Managing the Amazing, Affecting Material for “Da 5 Bloods”
Colorist Stephen Nakamura details how he worked with Spike Lee and cinematographer Tom Sigel across multiple formats, aspect ratios and visual elements.
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Creative Inspiration
“Da 5 Bloods:” How to Mix Materials and Deliver a Message That’s More Relevant Than Ever
“Only Spike will jump up and celebrate like the Knicks have scored when it’s a great edit.”
Expertise
High Dynamic Range (HDR): Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
De-mystifying this ubiquitous term
Expertise
The Case for 8K Production and How to Manage That Monster Data
There are benefits to an 8K production that an increasing number of projects are taking advantage of.
News
Sony’s Venice and FX9 Updates/Upgrades: Firmware, HFR, 4K Recording
“Our industry is seeing rapid evolution as the need to develop content for cross-platform distribution has transformed both the creative process and post-production workflows.”
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Why We All Need to Think About Taking Editing Workflows to the Cloud
"Editing in the cloud provides the ability to be in any location and work on any machine and mimic on-premise workflows with fine grain...
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“Togo:” New Technologies, 19th-Century Tones
Company 3 colorist Siggy Ferstl spent a whole year refining a specific look for the Disney+ period piece.
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Your 8K Ecosystem is Almost Ready
Content is already being shot, posted and displayed at 8K and many facets of the industry—acquisition, post, delivery—are gearing up
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How “Run” Streamlined (Remote) Reviews and Approvals
Enables remote viewing of color and VFX sessions
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How “Honey Boy” Was Rewritten in the Edit Room
"When we started to blend the two it felt like the past and the present were in dialogue together, the way it feels like...
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What You Need to Know About Color Space
“Why has ‘color space’ become so prevalent on set and in our post pipelines?”
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Productions in Adobe Premiere Pro: This Collab Tool Couldn’t Come at a Better Time
The Productions feature is specifically geared towards multi-editor projects working from shared storage
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Sounds and Silence: Designing the Dread for “A Quiet Place”
"We were all very excited about the idea that in this film, the audience is really going to pay attention to every sound in...
Expertise
Understanding Color Gamut
"The gamut of a camera is everything that the camera can see or everything that the camera can capture."
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Watch These Quirky Animated Pieces That Tease “Hail, Caesar!”
Universal Pictures commissioned animators to create stylized teasers for its upcoming Coen Brothers comedy Hail, Caesar! Each animation uses different techniques to set the tone...
Expertise
HFR: Yes, No, Maybe, Why? “Gemini Man” Technical Supervisor Answers Your Question(s)
“We've found is that the more detail you give to a viewer, the more their eyes like it.”
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Stay Indoors Education: Learn FCP X With a (Free!) 90-Day Trial
“The trial is a full working version and is not limited or watermarked in any way.”
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Download a Free Beginner’s Guide to DaVinci Resolve 16
The in-depth 400+-page PDF goes over everything from picture editing, audio work in Fairlight, creating special effects in Fusion, and—of course—color correction.
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Codecs and Compression: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
Understanding audio and video signals are encoded into digital files using codecs—shorthand for compression/decompression.
How To
OK, So… How Exactly Do You Make an “Instant Movie”?
This “instant movie” was all about demonstrating technologies now available to moviemakers—including the use of cloud storage and playout—that make it possible to greatly...
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“Parasite” Editor Jinmo Yang Teaches Us How to Edit Without Coverage (No Film School)
"Parasite" editor Jinmo Yang talks intertwining the story of three different families, effectively conveying the film's twists, and maximizing the story's tension in the...
Creative Inspiration
Hope is the Thing With Feathers: The Inspired Visuals of “Dickinson”
“The choice to make a period show was a way of writing a stylized version of the present.”
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How To: Recreate the Look of “The Lighthouse”
Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke crafted a distinctive look and feel for “The Lighthouse” that was achieved with a painstaking blend of old and new... so...
Creative Inspiration
Editor Jennifer Lame on Managing the Many Layers of “Marriage Story”
As Noah Baumbach’s longtime editor, Jennifer Lame started working on the Netflix feature well before principal photography, spending hours with the director breaking down...
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Watch This: “HDR Video: From Cameras to Post Production”
“Good HDR starts with capture. Great HDR thinks HDR throughout the process.”
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Recreate the Look of “Joker” with These Two Free LUTs
Colorist Factory is giving away two free LUTs (Bellart LUT and Blakehope LUT) that can be used to recreate the look of "Joker."
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Every NLE Is a Database (digitalfilms)
"The bottom line is that under the hood, all NLEs are still very much the same."
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The “Cold, Foreboding” (But Cinematic) Look for “Life Below Zero”
"This is not a vacation spot – this is the tundra of Alaska."
News and Features
An Inspired Adventure on the “Isle of Dogs”
"Wes enjoys animation for what it is. He's not trying to hide the fact that these are made objects. He's celebrating the art form."
Expertise
Color Correction for Beginners Using DaVinci Resolve 16
For total color correction newbies, colorist Casey Faris provides a good, quick, basic overview of how to begin using DaVinci Resolve 16.
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How “Terminator: Dark Fate” Made Adobe Premiere Pro Into a Better Multi-Editor Program
"Whenever you set out to use a new workflow — not to say Premiere is new because it's been around a long time and...
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Video Technology 2020 – Apple and the PC Landscape
Going into 2020, Apple is offering a better line-up of professional Mac products than it has in years.
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Video Technology 2020 – Sharing Storage
Thanks to advances in networking and Ethernet technology, shared storage is accessible to any user.
Creative Inspiration
“Queen & Slim” Editor Pete Beaudreau on How He Managed the Film’s Workflow
"You don’t have a second opportunity to show the film to the director for the first time," he says. "It can be crushing."
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Video Technology 2020 – Editing Software
Four editing applications dominate the professional market: Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer, and Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve. Established...
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The Seven Commandments of Becoming a Better Editor
His first rule: Watch every frame of raw footage twice.
Creative Inspiration
Top Ten Lessons Taken From the World’s Best Editors
In this video, Steven Hullfish discusses the top ten lessons he's taken away from interviewing top film editors
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Review: Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 16 and Editor Keyboard (Definition Magazine)
DaVinci Resolve 16's new Cut page and the company's Editor Keyboard are both designed to optimize speed for creators who need to get content...
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Company 3, Subsidiary of Deluxe Entertainment Services, Acquires Sixteen19
This strategic acquisition expands editorial, VFX and mobile dailies services
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Company 3 Creates Tones for ‘Paper Towns’
When color grading Paper Towns, director Jake Schreier wanted the visual feel of the coming-of-age film about a mysterious girl’s disappearance to walk the...
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Company 3 Enhances the “Beauty” of “Swiss Army Man”
“The were very concerned with preserving the unique tone of the film in the grade,” colorist Sofie Borup explains.
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Company 3 Contributes to the Raw Look of ‘Narcos’
The Netflix series Narcos takes an unflinching look at Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura) the formidable empire he ruled in the late...