HERNDON, VA — Mixing Light (MixingLight.com) has completely redesigned its training and educational Website, which features courses on color correction for moving images. The Mixing Light 2.0 site launched on April 10th and features enhancements that are designed to make learning color grading easier than ever.
One of the first things that desktop members will notice is the elimination of Adobe Flash videos. Every video is now delivered using HTML 5, with legacy videos streaming up to 720p, and future videos all streaming and downloading at 1080p resolution. Another immediate improvement that mobile device users will experience is a significant increase in speed.
"While our former 'off-the-shelf design' Website held up remarkably well for more than four years, it was a template that had tons of features we never used," explains Mixing Light co-founder Patrick Inhofer, C.S.I. (Colorist Society International). "That led to a huge amount of code that wasn't being used, slowing down the site. The new Website has been built from the ground up by Ali Jafarian of creatency.com, and only contains the precise code we need."
Speed tests on the new Website have yielded a doubling of speed by almost every metric. With further optimization, Inhofer believes that speed can improve even further.
With an Insights Library that has grown from 60 to over 600 different topics, the ability for members to find exactly what they were looking for on the former site was lacking. The new Mixing Light Website now lets members filter the library so that they can easily drill down and find the exact Insights they are looking for. There’s also a newly-added ability to bookmark favorite Insights.
"We've listened to our members," says Inhofer. "So not only have we added the ability to favorite Insights, we'll be adding more enhancements to this feature over the next few months. We want our members to know that their experience on Mixing Light 2.0 is driven by them, so we've also replaced our account management system with one that is more robust and feature rich so it'll be easier for members to maintain their account. Everything involved in this relaunch is designed to deliver as smooth a membership experience as possible."
Mixing Light is offering editors and colorists (or anyone interested in learning about color correcting moving images) a free seven-day test drive of the educational content available. The only requirement is registering with a credit card. The site covers an ever-growing selection of popular tools, such as DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X and Avid Media Composer