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…
In December I traveled to Taiwan to run the first ‘BYO’ laptop Resolve training class. I have often talked about a BYO class but up until now didn’t think the hardware would be up to the job. The old saying ‘you never know till you try’ was to be tested here. This is my Taipei…
It’s OK grading beautifully shot material, but sometimes we need to challenge ourselves.That’s why my classroom footage is a mix of cameras, good and bad material, plus a mixture of XMLs, EDLs and baked workflows. The R201 challenge we worked on today consisted of a 30sec TVC edited from previous campaigns. RED, Alexa and PSD…
The most exciting thing I saw was the Free Viewpoint TV (FTV) holodeck. Yes! The technology that introduced Princess Leia to Luke Skywalker in1977 now exists in our own galaxy and can project holographic images right in front of you. I would say 3-D images but that term has been so badly abused and confused…
This is a general overview movie from me about Resolve, recorded at the SuperMeet in Amsterdam last week in front of 10,000 people!! Click on Movie #4 Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve
A big show this year, and we all experienced the rush. In fact it was the second busiest IBC ever with 48,164 attendees from 140 countries. (The busiest show was 2008 with about 5% more visitors) The show floor was also bigger (100, 000 sq meters) as they opened a new thirteenth hall. In all…
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…
