Topic Tag: advanced
💡ACES
ACES is a standard designed to future proof this business of color management. https://www.lightillusion.com/aces_overview.html ACES encompasses an area larger than the CIE diagram. Its primaries are imaginary, colors we can’t see. But that future-proofs it. ACES
💡🎬 Log
Now that you understand LUTs and gamma, let’s talk about log. First of all, log is a very exciting thing for several reasons. It’s an efficient way to capture a lot of high quality detail and maintain a huge amount of post production flexibility. It is not designed as a visual aesthetic but rather a …
💡🎬 Export for Color & Conform
This is another section of the course made public because it saves me time if I share this information with others. If you’re working as a one-man-band, or using Resolve, you can ignore much of this section. I spend a lot of time preparing projects from editorial for delivery to sound editors and colorists. Getting …
💡 📷 🎬 Bit Depth
Bit depth refers to the size of the binary digit used to store a color value. The higher the number, the more granular the value stored. Bit depth is not dynamic range. In other words, your blackest black and whitest white do not change with bit depth. The “range” of colors doesn’t even necessarily change. …
💡🎬 Multi-Cam Sync
If you’ve shot multiple cameras on the same action, you’ll want to get that lined up. Resolve’s Cut Page Avid is still important to learn if you want to assistant edit in Hollywood, but after seeing the simplicity of Resolve’s cut page these options feel unnecessarily complex for many projects. Pick the right tool for …
💡🎬 📷 Other Useful Software
Daisy Disk This is a great tool for a quick look at what’s taking up space on your hard drive. Media Info This is a great free and cross-platform tool for reading video metadata. FFMPEG
💡 📷 🎬 Terminal (Command Line)
This is an excellent resource for using Mac OS’ command line called Terminal: http://shootdatapost.com/blog/2016/8/19/terminal-for-data-movers
💡🎬 Displays, Monitors, Projectors, Setup & CDL
Display Setup & Look Consistency Creatives won’t want to see a flat looking image designed to capture high amounts of detail at the expense of looking pretty. For that reason a DIT will perform a base color adjustment so that what everyone sees looks useful. There’s much more info in the color section on this, …
💡🎬 MAM (Media Asset Management) & Archive
Managing digital assets is a huge part of working with digital media at any scale. There are several reasons it’s important to use dedicated software to keep track of your media: Instant search-ability is key and good cataloging software in conjunction with robust metadata makes that possible. The media you’re searching for may be offline, …