Resolve $995

I have been asked the same question a lot over the past week since the Resolve on Mac was announced…. “Where can I get training?” Well the ICA is happy to be partnering with BMD to run training classes. No details as yet but it is expected the classes will be similar to the Media…

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Lorne’s Post From NAB

Greetings from NAB day 3. My legs are sore from all the walking but have covered all the halls once. There’s lots to see on my second time through. Just some of the hits I’ve seen are our man Warren demoing the Resolve for MAC and selling for $995US. Awesome color tool at an amazing…

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Looking Good or Looking Right? Part 1: The Monitor

Hi all! Couple of days from NAB, iPad just went out and from what I read it looks pretty good. So I think it’s the right time to start a pretty philosophical subject about the difference between looking good and looking right! As an artist, one of the most important things is to be sure…

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IDIFF, Paris, Jan 2010: Future of the Labs

A couple weeks back in Paris there was IDIFF, which is the local digital cinema show. A couple of conferences, about new cameras, one from Framestore about the joys of Avatar post, but the one that was the most interesting to me was the one about the future of the labs. It was driven by…

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ICA Grows Training Team: PR

International Colorist Academy (ICA) has expanded its training team with the addition of Cédric Lejeune, Lorne Miess, and Jeff Olm. In addition, ICA announces its upcoming colorist training schedule. Cédric Lejeune started his post production career as a Smoke artist, and in 2006, founded Workflowers to provide DI workflow consulting, training, as well the release…

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Colorist Strategies: 2 Hour Short Course

“What can you do in 2 hours?” That was the question posed to me by the Australian Film and Television School. At first I wasn’t sure, but realized that if I grabbed a little piece from all sections from the full 3 day CS class, I could create an interesting class. 20 people braved the…

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Resolve 3-Day Class at Media Village

I am pleased to announce the ICA/Media Village DaVinci Resolve class running in Singapore on May 3rd-5th. This class will be great for existing DaVinci users or Colorists looking to learn a new system. The class will not only focus on the operational side of the Resolve, we will also go into the art of…

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London, BVE Feb 2010

I delivered a seminar last week on behalf of Digital Vision at the Broadcast Video Exposition in Earls Court, in the Post Production Room. There were nearly 20 presentations over the 3 days and I was intrigued to notice that the most popular topic was color correction and many of the others topics touched on…

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The Future of 3D TV

Will 3D TV take off like The Stewardesses? by Chris Steele of Effectivus I am a geek. Well, I was. But I’m starting to doubt it now. You see part of being a geek is adopting new technologies way ahead of the sensible majority of the population. Not only am I a geek, but I’m…

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