Kevin talks the issue every entrepreneur has of finding the value of their product idea and the challenge of demonstrating value to a client to create product tracking. How can you do this quickly?By Inspire Curiosity

Up next is a conversation with Robb Jacobson about the lives of people who are affected, both by birth and by injury, both drastically and unknowingly with some form of color blindness.Robb is a story producer and a filmmaker who is partially color blind. One day it hit him - In our society, we cherish our visual field, but we also demand it to be …

Ezra Venetos is a film producer in Austin Texas many of us know locally for his successful indie films. I ask Ezra to talk about what makes him unique in his approach to producing films. We discuss the central theme I've been exploring in this mini-series "have we unconsciously evolved ourselves into a bad habit of thinking production quality is re…

Think about it - what could you learn from a distributor, really? For me it was a stretch. if you're like me and you assume distributors are gatekeepers then it's difficult to get over the mind talk running in your head that a distributor is out to get you in some way. Or at best just someone you have to pay along the way.Clearly this isn't the cas…

Up next is a conversation with Andie Grace VP of Acquisitions and Head CheerLeder at Devolver Digital Films - a film distributor in San Francisco. Why a film distributor? Turns out they have similar problems that as a colorist in helping a filmmaker be more successful.By Inspire Curiosity

In the next conversation of this mini-series on "What Can a Colorist Learn from a ...?" I speak with Ellie Ann Fenton, a Director of Photography in Los Angeles.Lucky for me she was in Austin working on a film. She called asking if she could bring the scriptwriter, the editor, and others on the team over to the studio to see some test clips on the l…

Have you seen any of these movies - Boyhood which is winning awards left and right.. Dazed and Confused, Fast Food Nation, A Scanner Darkly, Bernie?In this interview I ask an award winning custom designer Kari Perkins who is from Austin Texas to explore with me what a colorist can learn from a costume designer and how that collaboration can impact …

In this episode of Color Talk we dig in deep with Kevin Shaw, Instructor from the International Colorist Academy, about his new class - Advanced Color Grading. We do not talk about the specifics of how you use Resolve or SpeedGrade or the Nucoda color grading system or Baselight. Instead we delve into Kevin’s particular approach to teaching color g…

Join in on our my conversation with Warren as we talk about the International Colorist Academey which he cofounded with Kevin Shaw and the evolution of teaching colorist over the last few years. We talk about how the attendees and the course work has changed over these last few years for this wanting to become colorists.This was a fun and relaxing …

Join 1047111me in a conversation with Eric Norrell, Product Manager for AJA, to talk about AJA's LUT-box. This new addition to the AJA family was released at NAB 2014, and later this year some significant updates were added. The AJA LUT-box provides an easy, inexpensive way to help with more precise color calibration of displays and look management…

Tom Parish interviews Emery wells Co-founder of www.Frame.IO.Here is a question for the listeners - how’s it going - really - in sharing files with remote clients and teammates on your projects? Let me guess you use Dropbox to access to files or something Hightail or GoogleDrive. It’s a guessing game to see what the client is willing to use. Then y…

Aleksandar is a New York-based visual artist. His work often crosses and re-crosses a thin line between art and design, and it ranges from deceptively simple to highly political. In 2010 his diverse body of work was collected and published in Aleksandar Maćašev / Book.“Color is not essential, but very influential …Color is ever changing, it is very…

Imagine having the opportunity to sit down with a senior colorist who has graded dozens and dozens of shows over his career in the TV and movie business. That is what it was like as Randy Starnes and I conversed over FaceTime between our two locations, Austin TX and Santa Monica CA.Picking out one key point from this rich interview is difficult bec…

I'm entering a new phase of exploring color in a deeper, more intentional manner. Working with color has always been a fascination, and I have come to realize that there is much more to learn beyond the technical nature of how to use DaVinci Resolve or any color-grading tool.In this podcast with Art Schmehling, Business Manager for X-Rite/Pantone, …

In this podcast I speak with David Corley CEO DSC Labs located in Ontario Canada about the history and use of color test charts. For more background on the show visit http://www.tomparish.comBy Inspire Curiosity

Everyone is talking about 4k, right, but who can afford a 10-bit 4k monitor that will have reliable color accuracy? For most of us, our desires outstrip our pocketbooks. Well, maybe there is a way ....Even though we have MacPros now that easily manage 4k workflows, the real issue is the display, and anyone doing media work knows is how important it…

This is Tom Parish and I’m here with WayTao from RemarkHQ and we’re here to talk about a rather cool tool for media creators that allows you annotate video, review and approve video with teams and stakeholders.This product RemarkHQ,com got my attention late ly because I’ve been working in on a way to improve the approval process on ads and narrativ…

I was going to use the following title "Michael Chen asks What Color Glasses would you like to wear Red Green or Blue" because Michael tells a revealing story in this show in working with clients to evoke them into seeing and thinking differently.But before we get into Jedi Master Michael Chen's wisdom let me do a proper introduction. Michael Chen …

If you’re a colorist with an interest in color checking or calibrating all the displays in your studio — including your reference monitor, client displays, projectors, and periodically updating those 3D display correction LUTs — then you’re going to want to know that CalMAN 5.3 now provides a way to use DaVinci Resolve as a pattern generator. In fa…

If you have an interest in learning about 4k video production equipment and visiting with a colorist to improve the production quality of your projects then I invite you to come this free event in the Austin Film Society screening room at 3pm and 5pm on March 3. The OmegaBroadcast Group is sponsoring this event for the local community and it’s free…

If you’re from the Los Angeles area you’ve likely heard of David and his company Avical.com located in Burbank because he is the go-to guy for high-end video post production professionals in that part of the country. If I’m working at production or post house , and I need my most important monitors made as absolutely perfect as they can be made, I …

If you fancy yourself a digital creative, video editor, special effects person, colorist, producer, or filmmaker (or maybe all of these together), then sooner or later you come to the question – When should I purchase a reference display monitor? Why should I even bother? Bram Desmet, CEO of Flanders Scientific Inc., answers these questions along w…

This podcast is a brief conversation with Patrick Inhofer about a collection of insights for color grading log-recorded files. I also ask Patrick to talk about the MixingLight.com website and how that’s been coming along in the last year. I mention a number of times the insights I’ve learned from Alister Chapman an extremely creative DP from the UK…

If you haven’t heard, lots of folks are talking about a new SDI-based LUT box that sorta breaks the mold with regards to how LUT boxes have worked in the past. Here’s why.The Fujifilm engineers designed a physically small SDI-based LUT box to hold a 3D LUT for display profiling and calibration, but this is not your ordinary single-purpose LUT box. …

I had two goals with this podcast:1. Have a one-on-one conversation with Charles Poynton about the future of display technology as we evolve from mastering HD to UHD, 4k and even 8k media.2. Understand where display calibration technology stands with mastering displays (LCD and OLED in particular) and what is state of the art with calibration softw…

In this interview Derek Smith provides a technical history of the evolution of display calibration software for attached monitors on PCs and MACs. Derek covers in detail the older style monitor calibration techniques that use ICC, Direct Display Control and 1D LUTs (inside a computer graphics hardware) and how all three of these technologies are ma…

Young and talented, Roxy Radulescu is representative of the new creative class emerging through the millennial generation. We talk about her motivation for investing her time and creativity into her constantly evolving website, MoviesInColor. As an interviewer I am curious to learn how she creates these color pallets. Listen in and find out. Durati…

On this interview with Joel Barsotti I decided to dig in with SpectraCal and ask some 'how to' questions regarding their AutoCal and AutoCube technology for display calibration. A curious question that comes up is can you trust software that calibrates a display for you? There is an assumption that only a highly trained calibrator can do display ca…

Up next is a conversation with Cédric Lejeune on the topic of color consistency in post-production workflows. This is a big topic, and it would be easy to drill down into a dozen different niches. Instead, I gave Cédric an opportunity to talk about the issues and opportunities for small post-production companies to focus on color calibration, color…

The reality for the independent post-production house is we’re all Dropboxing (I guess it's a verb now) files back and forth to create or finish out a project, and the problem is that everybody's displays show slightly different colors. We’re all working on a different color interpretation of the files. Talk about confusion for the colorist who has…

In this show I talk with Luhr Jensen the CEO, founder and creator of the Klein10a colorimeter that is herald as the fastest most accurate colorimeter on the market. It's also built like a tank to take tough punishment from those of us hauling around probes for calibration of displays in studios and theaters. Many thanks to Luhr for being willing to…

Senior Colorist James Wicks works with a highly talented team at Olympusat color restoring classic 35mm Spanish-language movies. Jim, as he his known to his friends and colleagues, discusses his passion for being a Colorist, and discusses in detail some of his amazing experiences as he color restores these classic movies for a whole new audience. H…

If you want better looking video and a smoother ride for your colorist seriously consider listening to this podcast and getting one of the OneShot Color reference card from DSC or SMPTE. The creator of this unique card (Art Adams) talks about how to use it in your production and post workflow to improve the quality of your productions. This is what…

While I was attending NAB 2013 I meet Rob Bessette a colorist from Boston demonstrating the new features for Resolve 10. Like most other Resolve users I was excited to hear about all the new goodies coming but I was very curious what Rob would have to say after returning home to Resolve 9. What was that like after a week of using Resolve 10?Backgro…

Mary Larraine Stewart and I talk about some surprises at the 5Alarm Music booth at NAB 2013 and we have a spirited interview with Sarah Scarlata (see picture to the left). Sarah is a Music Director for 5Alarm Music who is a also a Producer / Creative Writing Manager / Digital Content Coordinator - besides that I hear she is a killer drummer - we ha…

In this interview I speak with Dwight Adair, writer/director/producer at Seadra Productions. We talk about film and the color-grading experience of West Texas Muse, a film about Tommy Hancock. This documentary is 64 minutes long and was shot over a period of 10 years on SD video.There were quite a few special challenges in getting the movie finishe…

This interview was captured on location at their office in Burbank CA. Markus Loeffler the developer and Asif Ahmed Product specialist where on hand for a face to face interview. Before the interview we tested out the ability to export a LUT from Color Assist in Davinci Resolve 9. That worked great it just required change the extension from .TXT to…