Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneDevan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 10/05/2026The cottage industry of channels that take sponsorships from large format camera manufacturers [Fuji GFX Eterna 55 in this case] and make videos filled with misinformation about the benefits about the benefits of large format cameras is really something these days. 2111
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/03/2026Cars suck. Even if you think you understand the scope of the impacts, you're probably underestimating. Watch this.youtu.beEvery Reason to Hate CarsYouTube video by Not Just Bikes 830860
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 26/03/2026The science fiction depiction of AI trying to kill us is by refusing to open the pod bay doors. The stupid reality of how it’s going to kill us is by providing endless iterations of instructions on how to open the pod bay doors that are all completely fucking wrong. 2131
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneVordio @vordio.net · 04/03/2026OTIO has a bad design flaw when it comes to nested sequences. There are no sequence references so the same data for a sequence can get duplicated thousands of times. Doh. 121
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 15/02/2026It’s one of those days where I can’t remember how to do some random thing in Resolve, and Google directs me to my own forum post from 10 years ago on how to do it that I have zero memory of ever typing.media.tenor.coma man is holding a can of soda in front of his mouth and says `` time is a flat circle '' .ALT: a man is holding a can of soda in front of his mouth and says `` time is a flat circle '' . 1110
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneTravis @travtufts.bsky.social · 13/02/2026An unsolicited #postchat recommendation for those in finishing/online workflows: Open-source CINECRED! Wrangling production credits for episodic TV from multiple producers and revisions is always a pain. Rippling those revisions inside your NLE is clunky and presents an opportunity for error.cinecred.comCinecredCreate beautiful film credits without the pain using Cinecred, a free and open source desktop application. 261
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Mac 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.) 150
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 26/09/2025After 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.media.tenor.coma man is saying i give up while holding a piece of paperALT: a man is saying i give up while holding a piece of paper 080
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneCinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 24/09/2025It is doomed. It has already failed. A heartfelt message to everyone who keeps trying: fuck off. petapixel.com/2025/09/23/m...petapixel.comMovie Studio Lionsgate is Struggling to Make AI-Generated Films With RunwayAI models need a lot of data. 1398
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Started tracking my sleep last year and damn my graphs look similar to the example for non-24 sleep-wake disorder. 060
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 15/09/2025I’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. 130
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 15/09/2025ProResRAW 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. 194
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneD.L. Watson @editordlwatson.bsky.social · 30/08/2025#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. 251
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Microsoft 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. 151
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneSteve Yedlin @steveyedlin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Fellow 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/DebunkingHDRyedlin.netDebunking HDRby Steve Yedlin 57019
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneMarc Bach, CSI @marcplanb.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Edit in #DaVinciResolve but want to mix in #Reaper? Open Timeline IO support on Vordio is coming. 132
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 13/04/2025It’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. 031
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 02/04/2025The “Magic Mask” in Resolve should be officially renamed the “You’ll Totally Regret Using This Later Mask” 250
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Stupid 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. 130
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Keep 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. 241
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneKQED News @kqednews.kqed.org · 19/03/2025dlvr.itHollywood Actors Take the Fight Against AI to SacramentoSAG-AFTRA, the union representing actors, is supporting a bill that would require AI developers to disclose when models are trained on copyrighted material. 064
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneDylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 08/03/2025I'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. 1142
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneCybel Martin ASC @cybeldp.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I 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) 143
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Anora, 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?...youtu.beCOLOR MATTERS | Episode 1 - 'Philosophy & Vision'YouTube video by Portrait Displays 0194
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 28/02/2025To 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 152
Reposted by Jamie LeJeunej-salvo.bsky.social @j-salvo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Join 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. 042
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneTodd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 27/02/2025“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/ 1311915
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 25/02/2025"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."buff.lyIntroducing 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 ... 315440
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Despite 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. 2130
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneProPublica @propublica.org · 16/02/2025This 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)propub.liInside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for FreeUsing lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise. 5928441041
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneNAVA @navavoices.org · 14/02/2025Great 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. 101140525
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneJared Simon @jaredsimon.com · 11/02/2025Hi! 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 #PostSkyjaredasimon.comEvery Frame Counts — Jared A. Simon 33711
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Daniele Siragusano has a new talk posted online. It’s excellent, as always. Well worth the time to watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWbP... #postchatyoutube.comUsing trained algorithms in interactive colour gradingYouTube video by FilmLight 030
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneWIRED @wired.com · 11/02/2025Thomson 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.wrd.cmThomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the USThe Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders. 4032721057
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 05/02/2025"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."theguardian.comVehicle tyres found to be biggest source of nanoplastics in the high AlpsMountaineers now scaling more peaks for first global study of nanoplastics, which can enter lungs and bloodstream 7397153
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Anyone 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? 191
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 31/01/2025If 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) 3162
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 31/01/2025It’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?...youtu.beUwade - Call It A Draw (Official Music Video)YouTube video by Uwade 031
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Was 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 451
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 29/01/2025This 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) 1165
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneOmar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 27/01/2025If 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...ourworldindata.orgMore than a million people die from road injuries every yearAround 1.2 million people die from road injuries every year. That includes the deaths of drivers, passengers, and pedestrians. 1017148
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneBen Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating” 174125202541
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Apple has updated iOS and macOS so that “Apple Intelligence” is on by default. And it is still this stupid 🤦♂️ 041
Jamie LeJeune @jamielejeune.bsky.social · 24/01/202580s 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. 150
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneMarty Huntford 🎞️✂️🎮🖥️ ((Now in Stereo)) @ipasocialist.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I’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. 182
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneStreetsblog USA @usa.streetsblog.org · 21/01/2025On 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."usa.streetsblog.orgWhy Americans Don’t Walk: A Forgotten Centennial — Streetsblog USA“Nobody walks in LA,” sang Missing Persons in 1982. The New Wave band could have been singing about most of America. How did it get this way? Why is it so hard to walk in most American cities, towns… 16019
Reposted by Jamie LeJeuneWes Plate @wplate.bsky.social · 20/01/202525 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 7429