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In this episode, I talk with Terence Curren, a Colorist and Online Editor in Los Angeles. He’s known for unscripted television shows like Project Runway, True Life, Ghost Hunters, and many others.  He got his start at the well known post facility, Matchframe Video, as employee number one. At Matchframe, he was one of the first editors in LA to work with Avid Media Composer, Symphony, and DS. And to this day, he still colors and finishes his shows on a Symphony.  In 2002, after 16 years at Matchframe, he moved on to starting his own company, Alphadogs. Many LA post production professionals are familiar with Alphadogs from their monthly meet ups called The Editor’s Lounge. It’s been a hub for people to learn about new technologies, directly ask vendors questions, and socialize with other pros. It’s been a great resource for over 13 years and I’ve personally learned a ton from attending them. In this interview, we talk about:  How his start in editing affects his approach to color  Running his own business from a colorist’s perspective The commoditization of post production gear and how it changed the business  How and why the monthly Editor’s lounge started  Using an Avid in color workflows and why they can save time  A history lesson on the Avid DS and why it was killed His thoughts on groups for colorists and how they can bring change Baselight as a plugin within Avid  Using the keyboard and Wacom tablet instead of a panel    Alphadogs http://www.alphadogs.tv   Editor’s Lounge http://www.editorslounge.com   IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192914/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1   Twitter https://twitter.com/terencecurren   This episode is sponsored by mixinglight.com. Use the coupon code josh10 for 15% off your first quarterly term or josh40 for 15% your first annual term.

In this episode, I talk with Terence Curren, a Colorist and Online Editor in Los Angeles. He’s known for unscripted television shows like Project Runway, True Life, Ghost Hunters, and many others.  He got his start at the well known post facility, Matchframe Video, as employee number one. At Matchframe, he was one of the first editors in LA to work with Avid Media Composer, Symphony, and DS. And to this day, he still colors and finishes his shows on a Symphony.  In 2002, after 16 years at Matchframe, he moved on to starting his own company, Alphadogs. Many LA post production professionals are familiar with Alphadogs from their monthly meet ups called The Editor’s Lounge. It’s been a hub for people to learn about new technologies, directly ask vendors questions, and socialize with other pros. It’s been a great resource for over 13 years and I’ve personally learned a ton from attending them. In this interview, we talk about: <ul> <li>How his start in editing affects his approach to color </li> <li>Running his own business from a colorist’s perspective</li> <li>The commoditization of post production gear and how it changed the business </li> <li>How and why the monthly Editor’s lounge started </li> <li>Using an Avid in color workflows and why they can save time </li> <li>A history lesson on the Avid DS and why it was killed</li> <li>His thoughts on groups for colorists and how they can bring change</li> <li>Baselight as a plugin within Avid </li> <li>Using the keyboard and Wacom tablet instead of a panel</li> </ul> Alphadogs <a href="http://www.alphadogs.tv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.alphadogs.tv</a> Editor’s Lounge <a href="http://www.editorslounge.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.editorslounge.com</a> IMDB <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192914/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192914/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1</a> Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/terencecurren" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/terencecurren</a> This episode is sponsored by <a href="http://www.mixinglight.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mixinglight.com</a>. Use the coupon code josh10 for 15% off your first quarterly term or josh40 for 15% your first annual term.

Episode 005: Terence Curren

“The 3 Steps of Color Correction” Terence Curren: Founder, Alpha Dogs... from the Way Back Machine! Terence Curren is the Founder and President of AlphaDogs, a post production facility and design studio located in the heart of Burbank’s Media District, mere blocks from the Walt Disney Company and NBC Studios. His future in the film and television business was prefigured by an early fascination with cinema; shooting his own films at the tender age of twelve. Terry went on to produce and direct, and then shifted full-time to post production as an editor. He was an early adopter of the Avid Symphony and quickly gained a reputation amongst his peers as an expert on that platform. Terry’s early focus was on the ‘skilled operator’ as the differentiating factor in post-production, led to the founding of his own post house, as well as the creation of the Editors’ Lounge series and the Digital Service Station media-transfer bureaus, now located across the US and Canada You can find Terry at:  His post-production facility: Alpha Dogs The Editor’s Lounge – A monthly gathering of broadcast post-production professionals The Digital Service Station – A unique ‘one-stop’ post-production resource for editors, directors, and producers.  Part 1 | Â Part 2 Tweet, Like, and Leave a comment! (bottom of the page, no registration required)   Subscribe in iTunes |Â Subscribe to theÂ Tao Colorist Sunday Morning Newsletter Listen Now  Learn Color Correction In An Online Mentorship Program! | Follow @patInhofer  More Interviews Show Notes  Post Production: Top 10 Dying Industry – Wall Street Journal Hi, My Name is Rich But You Can Call Me Jack – Is Jack winning the race? How Good Is Good Enough? – Terence and Philip Podcast Steve Hullfish on Amazon.com Stefan Soddenfeld IMdB Profile – Who is this colorist that Terry keeps referring to? Read it and be amazed.      This interview is part of an on-going interview series with the movers, shaker, and thinkers involved in the field of professional color grading for moving images. When I have new episodes to release, they are released on Tuesdays. To be notified you may follow me on Twitter (@patInhofer), via our RSS feed, and on iTunes. You can find more interviews here:Â TaoOfColor.com interview series homepage.   FCC Disclaimer Yes, I have affiliate accounts with online retailers. Anything on this page that links to Amazon, B&amp;H Photo or ToolFarm is Â an affiliate link. If you buy anything from my affiliate link not only do I get a commission, but you get a warmÂ pleasantÂ feeling that you’re helping to sustain the Tao Of Color website! If that is what you do – I, and all my readers and listeners say, Thank You. The post Interview: Colorist Terence Curren, Part 2 first appeared on TaoOfColor.com.

<h1>“The 3 Steps of Color Correction”</h1> <a href="http://www.taoofcolor.com/wp-content/uploads/Terence-Curren-2-progressive.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a>Terence Curren: Founder, Alpha Dogs... from the Way Back Machine! Terence Curren is the Founder and President of AlphaDogs, a post production facility and design studio located in the heart of Burbank’s Media District, mere blocks from the Walt Disney Company and NBC Studios. His future in the film and television business was prefigured by an early fascination with cinema; shooting his own films at the tender age of twelve. Terry went on to produce and direct, and then shifted full-time to post production as an editor. He was an early adopter of the Avid Symphony and quickly gained a reputation amongst his peers as an expert on that platform. Terry’s early focus was on the ‘skilled operator’ as the differentiating factor in post-production, led to the founding of his own post house, as well as the creation of the Editors’ Lounge series and the Digital Service Station media-transfer bureaus, now located across the US and Canada You can find Terry at: <ul> <li>His post-production facility: <a href="http://www.alphadogs.tv/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alpha Dogs</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.editorslounge.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Editor’s Lounge</a> – A monthly gathering of broadcast post-production professionals</li> <li><a href="http://www.digitalservicestation.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Digital Service Station</a> – A unique ‘one-stop’ post-production resource for editors, directors, and producers.</li> </ul> <h2><a href="http://www.taoofcolor.com/527/interview-colorist-terence-curren-part-1/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Part 1</a> | Â Part 2</h2> <h2>Tweet, Like, and Leave a comment! (bottom of the page, no registration required)</h2> <h2><a href="http://bit.ly/hjz0mq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe in iTunes</a> |Â <a href="http://www.taoofcolor.com/newsletter/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe to theÂ Tao Colorist Sunday Morning Newsletter</a></h2> <h2>Listen Now</h2> <h2></h2> <a href="http://masterclass.taoofcolor.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Learn Color Correction In An Online Mentorship Program!</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/patInhofer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Follow @patInhofer</a> <a href="http://masterclass.taoofcolor.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.taoofcolor.com/blog/interview-series/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More Interviews</a> <h2>Show Notes</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/03/28/top-10-dying-industries/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Post Production: Top 10 Dying Industry</a> – Wall Street Journal</li> <li><a href="http://dcinema.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/hi-my-name-is-rich-but-you-can-call-me-jack/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DigitalCinemaDemystified+%28Digital+Cinema+Demystified%29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hi, My Name is Rich But You Can Call Me Jack</a> – Is Jack winning the race?</li> <li><a href="http://www.theterenceandphilipshow.com/2011/02/episode-20-how-good-is-good-enough/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How Good Is Good Enough?</a> – Terence and Philip Podcast</li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fentity%2FSteve-Hullfish%2FB001JS0LHO%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dsr_ntt_srch_lnk_1%26qid%3D1309369531%26sr%3D1-1%23&amp;tag=fini01-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steve Hullfish on Amazon.com</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0814406/#EditorialDepartment" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stefan Soddenfeld IMdB Profile</a> – Who is this colorist that Terry keeps referring to? Read it and be amazed.</li> </ul> This interview is part of an on-going interview series with the movers, shaker, and thinkers involved in the field of professional color grading for moving images. When I have new episodes to release, they are released on Tuesdays. To be notified you may follow me on Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/patinhofer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@patInhofer</a>), via <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheTaoOfColor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">our RSS feed</a>, and on <a href="http://bit.ly/hjz0mq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a>. You can find more interviews here:Â <a href="http://www.taoofcolor.com/blog/interview-series/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TaoOfColor.com interview series homepage</a>. FCC Disclaimer Yes, I have affiliate accounts with online retailers. Anything on this page that links to Amazon, B&amp;H Photo or ToolFarm is Â an affiliate link. If you buy anything from my affiliate link not only do I get a commission, but you get a warmÂ pleasantÂ feeling that you’re helping to sustain the Tao Of Color website! If that is what you do – I, and all my readers and listeners say, Thank You. The post <a href="https://taoofcolor.com/533/interview-colorist-terence-curren-part-2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Interview: Colorist Terence Curren, Part 2</a> first appeared on <a href="https://taoofcolor.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TaoOfColor.com</a>.

Interview: Colorist Terence Curren, Part 2

“Educating the Public” Terence Curren: Founder, Alpha Dogs [NOTE: This conversation was recorded on April 7, prior to Apple announcing FCPx – and the DaVinci Resolve discussion does not refer to Resolve 8 – which eliminates many of the workflow ‘show stoppers’ that we reference.] Terence Curren is the Founder and President of AlphaDogs, a post production facility and design studio located in the heart of Burbank’s Media District, mere blocks from the Walt Disney Company and NBC Studios. His future in the film and television business was prefigured by an early fascination with cinema; shooting his own films at the tender age of twelve. Terry went on to produce and direct, and then shifted full-time to post production as an editor. He was an early adopter of the Avid Symphony and quickly gained a reputation amongst his peers as an expert on that platform. Terry’s early focus was on the ‘skilled operator’ as the differentiating factor in post-production, led to the founding of his own post house, as well as the creation of the Editors’ Lounge series and the Digital Service Station media-transfer bureaus, now located across the US and Canada You can find Terry at:  His post-production facility: Alpha Dogs The Editor’s Lounge – A monthly gathering of broadcast post-production professionals The Digital Service Station – A unique ‘one-stop’ post-production resource for editors, directors, and producers.  Tweet, Like, or Leave a comment! (bottom of the page, no registration required)    Follow @patInhofer Listen Now  Listen to Part 2  Subscribe in iTunes | Subscribe to the Tao Colorist Sunday Morning Newsletter  Learn Color Correction In An Online Mentorship Program! More Interviews Show Notes  George Lucas’ Near Death Experience Example of a 3/4″ ENG-style camera – not shown here: the nearly equally large shoulder-slung video-tape recorder that attached to this camera via an umbilical cord. Crazy dayz, eh? Avid Symphony Product Page Demo: Avid’s Fluid Motion – A nice YouTube test showing the results of Fluid Motion at a variety of frame rates. An especially prescient discussion of the future of FCPx (recorded April 7, 2011… 1 week before the NAB 2011 reveal).      This interview is part of an on-going interview series with the movers, shaker, and thinkers involved in the field of professional color grading for moving images. When I have new episodes to release, they are released on Tuesdays. To be notified you may follow me on Twitter (@patInhofer), via our RSS feed, and on iTunes. You can find more interviews here: TaoOfColor.com interview series homepage.   FCC Disclaimer Yes, I have affiliate accounts with online retailers. Anything on this page that links to Amazon, B&amp;H Photo or ToolFarm is an affiliate link. If you buy anything from my affiliate link not only do I get a commission, but you get a warm pleasant feeling that you’re helping to sustain the Tao Of Color website! If that is what you do – I, and all my readers and listeners say, Thank You. The post Interview: Colorist Terence Curren – Part 1 first appeared on TaoOfColor.com.

<h1>“Educating the Public”</h1> <a href="http://www.taoofcolor.com/wp-content/uploads/Terence-Curren-3.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a>Terence Curren: Founder, Alpha Dogs [NOTE: This conversation was recorded on April 7, prior to Apple announcing FCPx – and the DaVinci Resolve discussion does not refer to Resolve 8 – which eliminates many of the workflow ‘show stoppers’ that we reference.] Terence Curren is the Founder and President of AlphaDogs, a post production facility and design studio located in the heart of Burbank’s Media District, mere blocks from the Walt Disney Company and NBC Studios. His future in the film and television business was prefigured by an early fascination with cinema; shooting his own films at the tender age of twelve. Terry went on to produce and direct, and then shifted full-time to post production as an editor. He was an early adopter of the Avid Symphony and quickly gained a reputation amongst his peers as an expert on that platform. Terry’s early focus was on the ‘skilled operator’ as the differentiating factor in post-production, led to the founding of his own post house, as well as the creation of the Editors’ Lounge series and the Digital Service Station media-transfer bureaus, now located across the US and Canada You can find Terry at: <ul> <li>His post-production facility: <a href="http://www.alphadogs.tv/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alpha Dogs</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.editorslounge.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Editor’s Lounge</a> – A monthly gathering of broadcast post-production professionals</li> <li><a href="http://www.digitalservicestation.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Digital Service Station</a> – A unique ‘one-stop’ post-production resource for editors, directors, and producers.</li> </ul> Tweet, Like, or Leave a comment! (bottom of the page, no registration required) <a href="http://twitter.com/patInhofer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Follow @patInhofer</a> Listen Now  <h4><a href="http://www.taoofcolor.com/533/interview-colorist-terence-curren-part-2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen to Part 2</a></h4> <h3> <a href="http://bit.ly/hjz0mq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe in iTunes</a> | <a href="http://www.taoofcolor.com/newsletter/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe to the Tao Colorist Sunday Morning Newsletter</a></h3> <h3> <a href="http://masterclass.taoofcolor.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Learn Color Correction In An Online Mentorship Program!</a></h3> <h3><a href="http://www.taoofcolor.com/blog/interview-series/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More Interviews</a></h3> <h2>Show Notes</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://moongadget.com/origins/lucas_myth.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">George Lucas’ Near Death Experience</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisi/27603320/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Example of a 3/4″ ENG-style camera</a> – not shown here: the nearly equally large shoulder-slung video-tape recorder that attached to this camera via an umbilical cord. Crazy dayz, eh?</li> <li><a href="http://www.avid.com/US/products/symphony-nitris-dx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Avid Symphony Product Page</a></li> <li><a href="http://youtu.be/etwB_N9OeFk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Demo: Avid’s Fluid Motion</a> – A nice YouTube test showing the results of Fluid Motion at a variety of frame rates.</li> <li>An especially prescient discussion of the future of FCPx (recorded April 7, 2011… 1 week before the NAB 2011 reveal).</li> </ul> This interview is part of an on-going interview series with the movers, shaker, and thinkers involved in the field of professional color grading for moving images. When I have new episodes to release, they are released on Tuesdays. To be notified you may follow me on Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/patinhofer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@patInhofer</a>), via <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheTaoOfColor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">our RSS feed</a>, and on <a href="http://bit.ly/hjz0mq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a>. You can find more interviews here: <a href="http://www.taoofcolor.com/blog/interview-series/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TaoOfColor.com interview series homepage</a>. FCC Disclaimer Yes, I have affiliate accounts with online retailers. Anything on this page that links to Amazon, B&amp;H Photo or ToolFarm is an affiliate link. If you buy anything from my affiliate link not only do I get a commission, but you get a warm pleasant feeling that you’re helping to sustain the Tao Of Color website! If that is what you do – I, and all my readers and listeners say, Thank You. The post <a href="https://taoofcolor.com/527/interview-colorist-terence-curren-part-1/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Interview: Colorist Terence Curren – Part 1</a> first appeared on <a href="https://taoofcolor.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TaoOfColor.com</a>.

Interview: Colorist Terence Curren – Part 1