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Interview with Thatcher Freeman
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Interview with Thatcher Freeman

Color Mentor

July 20, 20241h 41m

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Show Notes

In this episode, I'll be talking to Thatcher Freeman. He's a California-based colorist and software engineer. For his day job, he's an actual AI specialist. He's made great contributions to the color grading and software coding communities. He's also a filmmaker, so I wanted to talk to him to find out what makes him tick.

We discuss: 

  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (01:10) - Interview starts
  • (01:57) - Thatcher's background in film making.
  • (05:01) - The difficulties on finding resources on color theory.
  • (06:41) - Current industry trends.
  • (09:14) - A colorist's value.
  • (10:21) - The combination of art and technology.
  • (13:14) - Freelance pressures.
  • (29:14) - Subtle vs Pushed graded.
  • (33:00) - Things that break the signal.
  • (54:29) - Personal taste in films and watching as a professional.
  • (01:08:19) - Thatcher's DCTL library.
  • (01:15:22) - Advice for DCTL coding.
  • (01:36:23) - Current Research.
  • (01:41:27) - Outro
  • (01:41:49) - End logo

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Topics

colorcolor gradingfilmcolor codingdavinci resolvedctl