[Joseph Owens]

Try investigating MochaPro, then. Create alpha-channel movies and import them.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

Actually, the definitive answer is in Patti Bellantoni’s book itself. Page 192. Purple can also be about ambivalence, duplicity, transformation…

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

My bet would be that cinemaDMG (sub-type of sequential TIFF), as far as I can gather, is imbedded in XYZ space and is probably not being re-scaled properly similar to the super-white issue.

Apple COLOR had a similar problem with RED-Raw.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[Clayton Burkhart] “why has no grading application incorporated face detection technology for color correction?”

Probably something that FCX would be better suited to as it seems to be iPhoto for movies.

Process of Grading has had a traditional evolution, and has been limited by the processors at hand — most of which have been not-quite-up-to-the-task oweing to the sheer lifting power taken up by the primary function of changing the value of every single pixel in a multitude of qualified ways — and we expect it to do that in real time, 24-30 times/second.

Why don’t color correctors speak with the voice of Majel Barrett? Similar question.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[Jeremy Ball] “When will 8.0.1 be released?”

As it was just seeded out to Beta, probably as soon as “they” all sign off on it, or whatever decision-making process has to occur.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

Oops… what’s an “editro”? Maybe its an accidentally-invented term for, like an edit-robot, you know FCPXX. comes with robo- colorist.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[Marcin Zwolski] ” ‘If it’s purple someone’s gonna die'”

At first, I thought this title was a kind of inside joke, since I know a few dp’s that absolutely detest the hue and there ‘better not be any of it’ in the image. However, those familiar with the title will soon realize that its more about color design and impression than about intrinsic technical transforms. Its a good reference for its subjective value, and a very anecdotal approach to what Art Directors are trying to achieve, therefore an excellent vocabulary base.

Itten is starting to feel a little bit outdated, even though, yes it is a bible of sorts. And there is no denying the Bauhaus.

Oddly enough, there are some artists’ handbooks (example: COLOR THEORY by José M. Parramón, ISBN 0-8230-0755-3) that I found instructive in terms of pigment/light mixing, simultaneous contrast, metamerism and harmonic balance.

There are tons of academic and popular treatments of the subject in books and web-based lecture series. Color is not an objective destination. There are discussions that range from Goethe to Edwin Land. There are theories that argue that not only is color psychologically mediated, but also culturally. Anyone who thinks they can successfully execute the function with numbers… a) is deluded and b) doesn’t and likely won’t ever, “get it”.

Ultimately, you are the filter, every colorist has a fingerprint, and like a fine musician, when you find your “voice”, perhaps it will be pleasing. I hope so.

(Could be the forward to my book if it would ever stop turning into a rant.)
My friends tell me “that is what editros are for”… maybe… if they would stop ranting about FCX!

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

Walter has a good tutorial on how to get Premiere talking to your Kona. It does require the 9.0 Kona release software …but BEWARE!

You could get into the ugly mess of OSX 6.8 causing kernel panics when booting! The problem is a Kona kext file gets broken. The key issue is to set your startup to always default to 64-bit. There is an Apple entry on that very topic.

The line is sudo systemsetup -setkernelbootarchitecture X86_64

I lost a bit of hair this afternoon figuring that one out… but thanks Walter for the nudge in the right direction…and I also think its cool to be able to scrub a preview clip right out of the browser.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

Find someone who has a working system. It would save a lot of pioneering time.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

I used to think that “value added” meant under-promising and over-delivering.

I used to think that professional conduct meant doing as much as you could, instead of as little as you could “get away with”. And, you know, “awesome” wasn’t just an automatic response to “how are you?”

On yesterday’s date, July 10, 1985, Coca-Cola re-introduced “Coca-Cola Classic”, and there might be a few of us here old enough to remember that debacle, when some whiz-bang from a satellite division decided that a tweak that he had pulled in that market would result in a new era of profits. And so Project Kansas met its fate.

Props to the reviewer “Adam Grand” on the Apple FCPX sales page who thinks the new X version is “rideculously [sic] good” and can’t wait to edit his next “film” next weekend. It will be tough to decide which “jaw-dropping” new “film” to try to take in among the 3 million or so that will be appearing next month.

But New Coke is not limited to retail:
Globe & Mail July 9, 2011:

On the upcoming academic publication, the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (DSM), (decribed as the “Sears Catalog” that psychoanalysts use for diagnosis), Ian Brown writes:

Every new version of the DSM has been controversial, but the groundbreaking fifth edition of the “dictionary of disorder,” now scheduled for release in 2013, is showing symptoms of being the most contentious ever. The rough draft published on the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM website has generated so much heat (50 million hits and more than 3,000 signed comments so far) that its release has been pushed back by a year.

The proposed new edition has created so many new categories of diagnosis, and widened the definitions of so many others, that the respected editor of the last edition, Allen Frances, has accused the new editors of reckless irresponsibility.

Meanwhile, entire disorders were to be excluded from the new edition – such as narcissistic disorder (“a grandiose sense of self-importance … requires excessive admiration”) – but the move aroused such indignation (imagine how the narcissists felt!) that the editors have had to re-include them.

I wonder if they got a letter from Apple about it, and especially that item…. also would be curious to know if “Messianic Complex” is still in there. But, you know, it appears to still be ‘in beta’.

I have to add this — the funniest line I think I ever heard in “Frasier” was Niles talking about enjoying a new biography by a narcissistic opera singer entitled “Me, Me, Me, Me”. That cracks me, me, me, me up.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?