After explaining multiple times why the edit should contain only camera original media before kicking out the XML for color, what does the editor do? Tells me he plans to intentionally put shit in the timeline that was baked out, cut up, exported again and re-imported. Instead of media managing.

It is doomed. It has already failed. A heartfelt message to everyone who keeps trying: fuck off. petapixel.com/2025/09/23/m...

Started tracking my sleep last year and damn my graphs look similar to the example for non-24 sleep-wake disorder.

I’ve not yet found any documentation on the “Apple Log 2” that was announced with the iPhone 17. But poking at Resolve 20.2 revealed: 1. Apple Log 2 appears to use the same transfer function as Apple Log. 2. Apple Log 2 primaries are wider virtual primaries, rather than the Rec.2020 of Apple Log.

ProResRAW has been added to Resolve. As is typical of Apple’s overzealous drive to simplify, the controls are hobbled and yield unexpected results. And I see some wild (bad) advice floating around online. I’d be wary and run your own careful tests before painting yourself into a corner with it.

Hell yeah we do!

#PostChat In case you didn't know, #apple released a API to allow @dropbox.com to have your file sync to an external drive. Not sure when this happened, but I'm thankful.

Microsoft spent $26 billion on LinkedIn. And over 40 billion on “AI” so far. Yet somehow LinkedIn still assumes I color hair rather than film/video. But please tell me again how AI is gonna help me run my business.

Fellow film tech nerds, today I'm launching a brand new demo debunking some common misconceptions about so-called "HDR" colorspace. Up now on my website. #NerdyFilmTechStuff www.yedlin.net/DebunkingHDR

This is embarrassingly too accurate.

Edit in #DaVinciResolve but want to mix in #Reaper? Open Timeline IO support on Vordio is coming.

It’s interesting how the HDR grade of the series Yellowjackets has changed significantly between season 1 and season 3. The brightest highlights in Season 1 were sharp and distracting vs Season 3 where they’re relatively softer and reduced, resulting in a better look.

The “Magic Mask” in Resolve should be officially renamed the “You’ll Totally Regret Using This Later Mask”

Stupid LLM text summarization of email is bad for communication. I was contacted about a quick grade. I replied that I’m busy and to check in on Wednesday to see if I’ll have time later this week. Apple (un)Intelligence summarized that as me agreeing to do the grade on Wednesday. We’re so fucked.

Keep an archived copy handy of every DCTL version you ever use in a grade. Future you will thank past you. Resolve does not save them with its libraries nor in exported/archived projects.

I'm sure it'll achieve whatever WB is hoping from it, but it's so frustrating to see this stuff knowing how many good and original ideas are out there struggling to find funding that's almost certainly a fraction of whatever this cost.

I found this interesting: “Back in the day, it was relatively easy to get grants from the NEA and the CPB. We had creative control and ownership of our films. Now, a half-dozen or so production companies get about 80 percent of the financing available for documentaries (con't)

Anora, this year’s best picture Oscar winning film, was color graded by Alastor Arnold! He was the featured colorist in a short doc series about color in movies that I really enjoyed making for Portrait Displays. Check it out to learn about his approach to color grading: youtu.be/0bO9vu0vx54?...

To see why uploading BT.1886 to YouTube is problematic On any Mac display, load the Severance trailer on YouTube in Safari, choose a frame and compare directly against the same frame from the episode in the TV app Now adjust display brightness and note how differently the image responds in each

Join me in not buying stuff. Don’t think of this as a one-time thing, protest is a muscle… let’s start exercising it. Baby steps here, let’s do 10min on the treadmill.

“A Different World” (1987 NBC) is now on Netflix, and the HD upscale is... not good. The show was shot and mastered on video in 4:3. The version on Netflix is cropped to 16:9, and has significant ML sharpening and odd softening. The show looks both over-crisp and gauzy/dreamy. 1/

"The 15-Hour City believes everything has its place. Houses go in one location, businesses in another, and in between is a dark sea of soul-crushing concrete and asphalt."

Despite Microsoft investing insane amounts of money into “AI” somehow LinkedIn still can’t manage to differentiate jobs for hair salon colorists from jobs for film/video colorists.

This tax season, we're here to remind you about TurboTax's 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free. (Published Oct. 2019)

Great news for Freelancers working in the State of CA! The Freelance Worker Protection Act went into effect January 1, 2025. This law requires freelancers to be paid 30 days after completion of work for any job over $250, & gives them the ability to take legal action against clients who don’t pay.

Hi! I wrote a book about being a First Assistant Editor. It's called "Every Frame Counts: An Assistant Editor's Reference Book" and it's being published by Routledge on April 2nd. Written BY an assistant FOR assistants. #PostChat #PostSky

Daniele Siragusano has a new talk posted online. It’s excellent, as always. Well worth the time to watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWbP... #postchat

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.

"The most abundant nanoplastic was tyre particles (41%), then polystyrene (28%) and polyethylene (12%). Each tyre on the world’s 1.6bn vehicles can lose 4kg during its lifetimes and may be the largest source of tiny plastic pollution."

Anyone else notice that on documentary projects there seems to be an inverse relationship between the quality of the storytelling vs the number of speed effects used in the timeline?

If the following two things are true for your project: 1) Video was recorded on iPhone 2) Post will involve interchange of those files between more than one app Then you should be rendering those files out to constant frame rate media *before* ingest (yes, even if the iPhone recorded to ProRes)

It’s been too long since I’ve had this much fun grading something. This was a real treat to get to work on. youtu.be/JL-nSwQidS4?...

Was struggling today with some shots from a cheap little DJI drone. I was just about to chalk it up to the device being essentially a toy. But they were ProRes transcodes. So I tried force interpreting the image as full range data. That fixed it. Are all DJI video files full range? #postchat

This is a periodic reminder that ***VLC media player does not display standard Rec.709 video correctly on modern P3 Apple Mac screens*** (nor on any other wide gamut computer display connected to a Mac)

If you made a horror movie where killer cars killed more than a million people worldwide, folks would laugh. Turns out, “Around 1.2 million people die from road injuries every year. That’s around 2.3% of deaths from all causes.” ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

Apple has updated iOS and macOS so that “Apple Intelligence” is on by default. And it is still this stupid 🤦‍♂️

80s TV shows had us worried about quicksand. What they should have prepped us for is the real danger of helping elderly people with their tech devices. The feeling of being trapped while every move only pulls you down deeper is similar.

I’ve got 128gb of RAM in my PC and I still can’t use After Effects if I have Google Chrome open. But sure, I’m meant to believe that Google, Adobe and Microsoft have somehow managed to create competent ‘AI’ systems? Ok, pal.

On Saturday, Jan. 24, 1925, Los Angeles introduced a law that gave motorists priority in the city’s streets. It went into effect just after midnight. Disobedient pedestrians were suddenly "jaywalkers."

25 years ago my dad and I started a software company called Automatic Duck, and it has been quite a journey. Today we are excited that our latest solution, a multicam flattener for Final Cut Pro, is available on the Mac App Store. apps.apple.com/us/app/multi... #Postchat #FinalCutPro #fcp #fcpx

In the mid 00s in Thailand some religious amulets made of soil, ash, and banana fiber became highly valued. It was nuts. The provincial town I lived in at the center of it went from 2 flights a day to over a dozen. Eventually, the bubble popped. How the hell are crypto meme coins any different?

Lighting a scene with practicals is great… …unless those practicals have a poor spectral power distribution. Most modern LED based interior lighting is awful. Post color grading can only manipulate the data that is recorded. Garbage in = garbage out.

Reading a news article on a topic I don’t happen to know much about: “That was interesting and informative.” Reading a news article on a topic I do happen to know a lot about: “Holy fuck, this writer has gotten everything so wrong I don’t even know where to start!”

We are so fucked.

When I’m looking at the “conformed” timeline the editor sent

This is great. Long, but worth a watch: youtu.be/4zF19PElnd0?...

In post production folder structures I’ve seen the folder for digital camera originals labeled with different abbreviations: OCN (= original camera negative) or OCF (= original camera format) or OCM (= original camera media) What do you use? #postchat

My studio space alternates between two states: 1. So meticulously organized it looks like mental illness 2. In such disarray it looks like mental illness There is no happy medium.