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Continuing our recent efforts to address some viewer/listener submitted topics, in this episode of The Offset Podcast we’re exploring a question we got from audience member Jared about how to integrate greenscreen work into a color/finishing pipeline.

It’s a great topic, and one as you’ll see and hear Joey gets particularly amped up about!

Since we’re a podcast and not a tutorial channel, this episode is more about big picture strategies and techniques then the nitty gritty of particular sliders and knobs, but we still cover a ton. Some of the specific topics we explore include:

• Success in greenscreen work starts on set
• Keying on the Resolve Color page vs Fusion page
• Fusion’s Delta Keyer
• Getting more comfortable with mattes and transparency
• Edge refinement, matte finessing and the difference between the two
• Combining keys and using garbage mattes
• Controlling spill with spill suppression
• Light wrap, shadow creation and getting better composites
• Handing off to a VFX professional

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In this episode of The Offset Podcast, we’re exploring another viewer/listener submitted question - this time from a viewer named Camilo.

Camilo asks about the balance as a colorist of being a technician vs an artist. Thanks Camilo for the topic - it’s a deep one!

Specifics topics we explore in this episode include:

• Color grading IS technical, but its ALSO very creative. Most colorists aren't exclusively one or the other
• How you got into post/color plays a large role in how you see yourself and others seen you
• How you can fill your technical/creative gaps with conceptual thinking
• The colorist as a fulcrum in a creative/technical seesaw
• How the pressures of having to 'invent images' vs respecting photography brings technician vs artistry to the forefront
• How video/film projects have less diversity of approach than other artistic mediums
• The power of experimental projects
• Learning to understand your own personal strengths

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Today we’re exploring a question we got from one of our viewers/listeners Jon who writes asking about trends in color grading. Thanks for the question Jon it’s a good one!

Some of the specifics we discuss in this show include:

• The challenge of pinpointing trends
• Hommage vs. copy cat
• What’s popular now?
• Have we become scared of contrast?
• The magic of ‘90s and early 2000’s looks
• Thinking about future trends by using past looks as a library

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