Guest blog by Dick Hobbs Not so long ago, post production was where all the fun was in our industry. That was where the glamour was created, and that was where the real creative heroes did their magic. It was also where the excitement lay. I am old enough to remember NAB 1992, when…
This year was the 50th anniversary of the International Broadcast Convention and it was as lively and inspiring as ever! Over 57,000 visitors descended on Amsterdam, and enjoyed the networking, discovery and education of the show, day and night. Even the drizzle and wind could not dampen our spirits. For me the stand out trends…
It gives us great pleasure to announce the world’s first Colorist Summit to be held in Bali Oct 21-28. What is the Colorist Summit? Regular ICA classes held in the fantastic Nusa Dua resort in Bali. This means you can stay at the resort making for a very relaxing learning experience. We have also introduced a…
I started using daVinci Resolve in 2005. It was a $300,000 system, the hardware rack was the size of a doorway and it took a Resolve engineer two days to install. In 2006 I met with Mike Seymour and John Montgomery, who said they were thinking of opening an online university. They asked me if…
Five things to help the Colorist/DP relationship 1. Don’t stamp on my images I am hearing this more and more from DPs. Stamp means the picture is over worked, too many layers or nodes and too many windows and keys. This can make the image look too false because the look has been changed from…
The first anniversary of the Colorist Society International CSI has just passed, so what has changed? I sat down with CSI co-founder Jim Wicks at NAB and discussed some of the things the CSI has been up to. The CSI was launched at the 2016 NAB Colorist Mixer. Jim Wicks and Kevin Shaw arrived at NAB…
ICA is a big fan of Colorist Society International, which celebrates its first birthday at NAB 2017 and has organised some group tours with some of its supporters. These events are a great way to meet other colorists during the show, and find out what is new at the same time. As an added incentive, many of…
The big question has always been, will they, or won’t they? The news is BMD have taken the plunge into the world or certified training for DaVinci Resolve. I have just spent 2 days on the first Asian Resolve ‘Train the Trainer’ class conducted by legendary trainer Jeff Greenberg at Media Asylum in Singapore. So…
In conjunction with Colorist Society International, we are bringing back our search for the colorists on the Oscar nominations. Yes, their credits are buried down at the bottom of the endcrawl, and no, they probably won’t get a mention in any of the acceptance speeches, but you know they (and often their team) watched every…
