Colorist Mixer 2020 Video Recordings
Colorist Mixer 2020 was a world first – a 24 hour international online mixer
COVID meant no NAB or IBC shows in 2020, and therefore no in-person Mixers. But we were very happy to welcome 600 attendees to our first virtual Mixer in December. We had brilliant speakers providing insights on all aspects of the industry – you can now watch the videos of these sessions below for free.
On this page, you can watch keynote speeches from Charles Poynton – inventor of square sampling as HDTV standard; writer, director, producer and cinematographer Mark Toia; industry legend Joachim Zell; HDR colorist in demand Andreas Brueckl; and blockbuster colorists Walter Volpatto & Mark Todd Osborne – plus a panel on Women in Film and on the Representation of People of Color in Post. Not to mention in-depth presentations from AbelCine, Asus, CSI, Dell, Dolby, Eclipse Tech, FilmConvert, Filmworkz, Flanders Scientific, fxphd, Mixing Light, Red Giant, and SGO. You can see the full schedule of sessions at coloristmixer.com.
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Mixer highlights
Over 24 hours, we covered color grading tips, HDR, calibration, monitors & displays, colorists’ fees, updates on the latest tech, color science, restoration, filmmaking, camera technology, and more.
ICA tips and tricks – Part 3
iColorist trainers Diego, David and Jeff walk you through some cool color tips.
Diego Yhama CSI – The new v17 HDR Tool
David Catt – What is the best graphics card for your machine
Jeff Greenberg – Really cool Resolve tips you probably didn’t know
To learn more from these instructors
Keynote: Making A Self-Funded Feature Film – Mark Toia
Mark Toia shares how he wrote, shot, directed and funded his upcoming movie Monsters of Man. Mark is one of the most successful TV commercial directors in the world, working on big budget ads via his company Zoom Film & Television. Watch this if you’ve ever wondered about making an indie feature film start to finish, or just want to hear some pearls of wisdom from an industry leader.
How to: Calibrate your Monitor
iColorist trainer Gregg Loewen explains the steps to calibrate a monitor from his calibration lab, and gives an overview of what his classes are all about.
The session was sponsored by Dell.
Keynote: Charles Poynton
20 years ago Charles Poynton established square sampling (“square pixels”) as the standard for HDTV. He is the inventor of the number 1080 found in HDTV standards, for which he was awarded SMPTE’s David Sarnoff Gold Medal. Here he talks terminology and how we can improve communication by better defining our terms and being more careful with our use of spoken language.
Charles has a PhD in Color Science from Simon Fraser University and has written a book ‘Digital Video and HD Algorithms and Interfaces’.
What’s New In Magic Bullet Suite 14
This session covers:
- Quick tour into the all new Magic Bullet Suite 14
- Magic Bullet Looks Overview
- All the new features in Magic Bullet Looks 5
- Three additional new tools in Magic Bullet 5 and how you can use them to your benefit
This session is sponsored by Red Giant.
Filmworkz DVOs In Resolve 17
Blake Jones goes through all the Filmworkz DVO tools, their use in Resolve 17, and how putting them into Power Grades makes them so quick to add into a correction.
This session is sponsored by Filmworkz.
Grading Remotely
Chuck Parker CEO of Sohonet talks Sohonet remote grading options. Clearview Flex and Clearview Pivot are great ways of connecting a colorist with a director in different locations.
This session is sponsored by Sohonet.
You’re Fired: How Not To Under- Or Overcharge
In one of the most dynamic and well received sessions of the Mixer, panelists from the US, UK and Europe share their take on setting rates, pitching and charging clients, & working as freelance colorists. Dario Bigi, Senior Colorist Bonfire and Freelancer, chairs with Roel Videler, Senior Colorist, Media Monks; Rebecca Goodeve, Colorist, Author Colour and Freelancer; John Rogers, Independent Senior Colorist; and Juan Salvo, Founder/Finishing Artist, The Colour Space.
CSI presents: the 2020 Colourist Salary Survey
Heike Quosdorf, CSI gives an overview of the Colorist Salary Survey results – including salaries based on location and system used – initially started last year in Berlin, and now spread in international forums. To help the colorist community grow stronger and develop, it is important to share fundamental business knowledge between ourselves and raise awareness for certain topics.
You can see the results of the 2019 Colorist Salary Survey here. Please contribute to the 2020 Salary Survey to continue to strengthen the colorist community through economic information (this is anonymous). Visit the website to find out what this is about.
Find out more about CSI and its work for the industry, or join your local chapter, here.
AbelCine presents: Color Metadata – Preserving Creative Intent
AbelCine technology specialist Geoff Smith talks to NYC DP Charlie Anderson about his experiences managing camera metadata, and how a director and DP’s creative intent is maintained during footage’s journey from set to the creation of dailies, through post, to final color and finish.
This session was sponsored by AbelCine.
Dolby Vision presents: The latest content creation news & updates
Check out the latest news from Dolby’s Tom Graham. He explains Dolby Vision and talks about their new Virtual training programme, including an overview of the license/pricing and recent changes to the Dolby Vision Certification program.
This session was sponsored by Dolby.
FSI presents: Beyond 1,000 Nits – The Benefits Of Higher Luminance HDR Displays
FSI CEO Bram Desmet explores your options when purchasing an HDR color correction monitor, including the benefits of a 3000nit capable mastering display like FSI’s XM310K.
This session was sponsored by Flanders Scientific.
ICA tips and tricks – Part 2
The iColorist trainers share some of their top color correction tips:
Paco Ramos CSI – Cool Mistika Color tools
Yuki Ariandi CSI – Fusion for the Colorist
Blake Jones CSI – Resolve 17 tips and tricks
Warren Eagles CSI – How to keep your clients using Resolve Power Bins and PowerGrades.
CSI Hosts: Representation of people of color in Post
Panellists Bobola Oniwura and John Bleau discuss representation and why it matters – including the journey so far and what the changing post landscape means for people of color.
Working Remotely? Grading, Editing, & Creating VFX With Virtual Machines In The Cloud with Ben Campbell & Jeff Olm
Keynote: Grading in HDR for Hollywood by Andreas Brueckl
Andreas shares his insights from working around the world as a colorist for 15 years, in particular his recent work grading Netflix and Amazon originals. Andreas has colored more than 1000 TV commercials and has won Apollo Awards for Asia’s best colorist – TVC and Asia’s best colorist – movies.
Mistika 10: Feel The Color & Master The Finish From SGO
Keynote: Grading in Hollywood with Mark Todd Osborne and Walter Volpatto
Mark Todd Osbourne CSI and Walter Volpatto CSI ask each other the questions you always wanted to ask a top Hollywood Colorist.
Mark is an industry veteran that has been grading for 25 yrs, across feature films, TV, commercials and music videos. Previously at Company 3, he is now freelance in LA.
Walter has graded many blockbusters over his 15yr career, including Academy-Award Green Book and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Walter previously worked at FotoKem and Efilm and is now at Company 3. You can also listen to Warren’s Color Tour podcast episode with Walter here
CSI hosts: Recognition of Colorists in Film
Walter Volpatto, CSI and Mark Todd Osborne, CSI, talk to CSI President Kevin Shaw, CSI about recognition of colorists within the industry and specifically with IMDB and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Camera matching: FilmConvert present Cinematch
John Parker and Sam Wiles join us from the Film Convert HQ in Wellington NZ. They discuss CineMatch, their brand new camera matching solution. For more information visit filmconvert.com
This session is sponsored by FilmConvert.
Keynote: Joachim Zell
Joachim Zell talks about James Bond, look up tables, and how he delivered digital dailies for True Grit.
JZ is a consultant on production and post-production workflows, ACES and Imaging Science. For 12 years he served as VP of Technology and Imaging Science at EFILM/Deluxe, where he designed and monitored production workflows from onset production to the movie release. JZ now serves on the ASC Motion Imaging Technology Council DI team that defined the ASC CDL standard and acts as Co-Chair of the MITC Next-Generation Cinema Display committee as well as ACES Project Vice Chair at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science and HPA board member.
This session is sponsored by ACES. Get the latest info at acescentral.com
CSI hosts: Women in Film
Three experienced colorists will talk to CSI Board Member Sarah Priestnall about working in the film industry as a woman. While things have changed a lot over recent decades, women are still significantly underrepresented in this industry – why is this, and what does it mean for those that do work in film and for the industry itself?
Whether you are a woman starting out in film or you work with women in grading, this is a don’t miss panel with panelists CJ Dobson CSI, Junbin Chen CSI, and Andrea Chlebak.
ICA tips and tricks from Diego Yhama & Francisco Ramos Howell
In three sessions during the Mixer, the International Colorist Academy instructors shared their top tips and tricks on color grading. In this first session:
00:58 Diego Yhama shows you how to customize light zones in the HDR palette of DaVinci Resolve 17.
10:48 Francisco Ramos Howell shows you how to do things more easily in the latest version of Mistika.
Watch it now for our best 2020 tips in the latest software.
Live from Mexico with fxphd
Co-founder & owner of fxphd John Montgomery talks to Warren Eagles, and Kevin Shaw about COVID, Resolve 17 and learning new software, workflows, the latest displays, and the new offerings from the fxphd online university – plus a spicy cocktail recipe.
This session was sponsored by fxphd.
John Montgomery is a VFX artist and producer who co-founded fxphd – a subscription-based online VFX, post-production, and motion graphics training program with over 250 courses – and fxguide – a visual effects and post-production community website and podcast VFXshow.
How to: build your own boutique post house
In this session, Juan Cabrera shares his experience building a Boutique color studio from the ground-up. Juan has worked on some of Hollywood’s biggest tentpole movies and has built his facility around a ‘Boutique Facility tree structure’ that he shares here. The topics discussed include working for Netflix, the kit he uses and how he competes against the big Post Houses in Los Angeles. See and download Juan’s awesome mindmap here >
Juan runs his own Color Boutique: LightBender in Santa Monica, California. He won two AIS awards for his work as Stereographer on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and has been nominated for an HPA Color award for the show The Alienist: Angel of Darkness. He often works with emerging technologies, being one of the pioneers of the new wave of digital Stereography over 10 years ago, and working in HDR for the last 3 years.
Australia-New Zealand chapter of Colorist Society International
ANZ’s CSI chapter discusses why it decided to form and what’s different ‘Down Under’. CSI ANZ members Jarryd Hall CSI, Deirdre McClelland CSI, Luciano Marigo-Spitaleri CSI, and Warren Eagles CSI discuss coloring down under, showcase some recent work and talk about how CSI members can start their own local Chapter.
ASUS HDR Monitors & tech
Kevin Shaw and Asus ProArt Display Product Director Nicky Lin discuss display technologies, including the latest in HDR, and explain the ASUS ProArt range.
This session was sponsored by ASUS.
See Kevin unboxing the latest ASUS ProArt PA27UCX-K monitor here >
