The Offset Podcast

It's our first episode of 2026 and the first episode of season 3!  We have a lot planned for the show this year, and we appreciate you, our audience, for being along for the ride. Over the next few months, we'll be dropping some new features for the show, along with some content that we're really excited about - stay tuned!  
In this installment of The Offset Podcast, we're doing that cliché, but useful exercise of exploring our business, technical, and creative goals for 2026. Some of the specifics we'll discuss in this episode include:
How everyone can get better - but doing it is different than just talking about it
Evaluating weak spots
Improved planning - pivots, side hustles and weathering industry ups/downs
Being more methodical about sales and marketing
Better client outreach
More efficient project organization
Being more open to new tools and techniques
Learning more from other colorists
Defeating procrastination 
Working smarter, not harder
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See you in about two weeks for a new episode.

Happy Holidays!
It’s our last episode of Season 2 and for the year!  We’ll return in mid-January 2026  for Season 3 with some great new topics, new types of content and much more.
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Thank you to our amazing audience we couldn’t do the show without your support.  Wishing you and yours a great holiday season!
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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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Did you know you can submit questions or show ideas for the podcast?  If you head over to offsetpodcast.com at the top of the page there is a button to submit an idea for a future episode. You can also use this button to provide feedback about the podcast.  We’d love to hear from you.  

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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You hear a lot of talk about references when it comes to color grading - but what are references? How do you interpret them to get great results? And, how can references play a role in client communication?

It's these topics and more we're discussing on this installment of The Offset Podcast

Specifics discussed int his episode include:

What is a reference and what is it good for?
References aren’t just good for color - good for all aspects of finishing
References as a communication tool
Interrogating the client about provided references
Inspirational references vs. practical references
Reference evaluation  - color, contrast, texture, mood and focus
Working with references in your color grading app
Thinking volumetrically with references
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