Jamie LeJeune
@jamielejeune.bsky.social
RGB Mixer
(formerly @restlesspix on Twitter)
(formerly @restlesspix on Twitter)
Mac Resolve users can now finally be rid of Rec.709-A and all the confusion it breeds:
forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.ph...
(Though not because Apple fixed their nonsense. It’s that Resolve is now managing it with less manual effort.)
forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.ph...
(Though not because Apple fixed their nonsense. It’s that Resolve is now managing it with less manual effort.)
October 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Mac Resolve users can now finally be rid of Rec.709-A and all the confusion it breeds:
forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.ph...
(Though not because Apple fixed their nonsense. It’s that Resolve is now managing it with less manual effort.)
forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.ph...
(Though not because Apple fixed their nonsense. It’s that Resolve is now managing it with less manual effort.)
“Segmentation fault” in thread
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
The drives were clicking.
The drives were clicking.
October 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“Segmentation fault” in thread
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.
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.
a man is saying i give up while holding a piece of paper
ALT: a man is saying i give up while holding a piece of paper
media.tenor.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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.
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.
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It is doomed. It has already failed. A heartfelt message to everyone who keeps trying: fuck off.
petapixel.com/2025/09/23/m...
petapixel.com/2025/09/23/m...
Movie Studio Lionsgate is Struggling to Make AI-Generated Films With Runway
AI models need a lot of data.
petapixel.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It is doomed. It has already failed. A heartfelt message to everyone who keeps trying: fuck off.
petapixel.com/2025/09/23/m...
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.
September 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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.
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.
September 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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.
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.
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.
September 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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.
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!
We need cheap rent so idiosyncratic weirdos can make a living pursuing their passions.
Call it Anti-Industrial Policy: we need is a suite of policies to nudge Americans to own and operate more little public-facing businesses. Speciality shops. Six-seater bars. Esoteric services. Restaurants serving two or three dishes. It would lower overall productivity and increase quality of life.
September 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Hell yeah we do!
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#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.
August 30, 2025 at 1:55 AM
#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.
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.
August 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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.
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.
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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
#NerdyFilmTechStuff
www.yedlin.net/DebunkingHDR
Debunking HDR
by Steve Yedlin
www.yedlin.net
May 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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
#NerdyFilmTechStuff
www.yedlin.net/DebunkingHDR
This is embarrassingly too accurate.
me: I should really respond to this message.
🧠: nope, it’s too late. now you’ll have to apologize, make up some excuse, blah blah blah…
me: but…
🧠: trust me. much better to just ignore the message, sabotage the relationship, and feel bad about it for the rest of time.
🧠: nope, it’s too late. now you’ll have to apologize, make up some excuse, blah blah blah…
me: but…
🧠: trust me. much better to just ignore the message, sabotage the relationship, and feel bad about it for the rest of time.
April 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is embarrassingly too accurate.
Reposted by Jamie LeJeune
Edit in #DaVinciResolve but want to mix in #Reaper? Open Timeline IO support on Vordio is coming.
OK. I think I have got OTIO -> RPP working. Seems to be best format to get audio out of Davinci Resolve now. OTIO has some big advantages over AAF & XML.
April 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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 brightest highlights in Season 1 were sharp and distracting vs Season 3 where they’re relatively softer and reduced, resulting in a better look.
April 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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 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”
April 2, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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.
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.
March 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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.
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.
Future you will thank past you.
Resolve does not save them with its libraries nor in exported/archived projects.
March 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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.
Future you will thank past you.
Resolve does not save them with its libraries nor in exported/archived projects.
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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.
March 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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.
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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)
March 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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?...
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?...
COLOR MATTERS | Episode 1 - 'Philosophy & Vision'
YouTube video by Portrait Displays
youtu.be
March 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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?...
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
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
February 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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
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
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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.
February 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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.
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“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 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/
February 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
“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 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/
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"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."
Introducing the 15-Hour City
“The 15-minute city principle suggests you should have your daily needs—work, food, healthcare, education, culture, and leisure—within a 15-minute ...
buff.ly
February 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"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."