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Color 1.5 Essential Training

with Robbie Carman

In Color 1.5 Essential Training, colorist Robbie Carman details how to use Final Cut Studio's dedicated color grading application to stylize projects and improve their look. Robbie explains the principles of color grading, discusses the color wheel and tonal range, and decodes color terminology for new users. He shows how to prepare a Final Cut Pro project before sending it to color and how to use video scopes to evaluate a clip while making corrections. He provides information for new Color users as well as experienced colorists looking for what's new in this release. Exercise files accompany this course.

Topics include:

Round-tripping with Final Cut Pro and Color
Ingesting RED footage for color grading
Understanding the Color interface and navigating Color's Finder dialogs
Performing primary corrections in the Primary In room
Applying secondary corrections using HSL keys, vignettes, and curves
Using the Color FX room
Keyframing corrections in a clip
Preparing for rendering and output from Color back to Final Cut Pro

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author: Robbie Carman
subject: Video, Color Correction
software: Color 1.5
level: Beginner

duration: 7h 44m
released: Oct 29, 2009

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Welcome 3m 21s

Welcome 1m 6s

Using the exercise files 2m 15s

1. Setup 9m 46s

Understanding the technical requirements of Color 2m 35s

The basics of suite setup 5m 43s

Essential equipment: Three-button mouse 1m 28s

2. Color Concepts 16m 9s

What is color grading? 4m 40s

Understanding the color wheel and tonal range 4m 14s

Decoding technical terminology for color grading 7m 15s

3. Color Workflows 37m 32s

Overview of Color workflows 6m 38s

Round-tripping with Final Cut Pro and Color 7m 21s

Emulating a tape-to-tape workflow 3m 50s

The RED workflow: Ingesting as ProRes 6m 51s

The RED workflow: Ingesting as RED QuickTime files 5m 31s

Importing DPX and Cineon files to create offline QuickTime files 7m 21s

4. Preparing a Final Cut Pro Project for Color 34m 18s

Evaluating a Final Cut project 6m 54s

Creating self-contained clips 8m 29s

Dealing with composited clips 5m 50s

Working with stills and freeze frames 5m 2s

Working with speed-adjusted clips 3m 52s

Working with multiclips 4m 11s

5. Overview of Color 47m 58s

Navigating the Color Finder and opening projects 7m 20s

Understanding the eight rooms of Color 7m 29s

Essential preferences and project settings 6m 51s

Navigating the Color timeline 8m 31s

Understanding how to read Scopes 6m 40s

Evaluating contrast with Scopes 6m 7s

Evaluating color with Scopes 5m 0s

6. Making Corrections in the Primary In Room 1h 7m

What does the Primary In room do? 7m 17s

Using the Color Balance controls to affect tonal range 5m 26s

Correcting underexposed footage with the Color Balance controls 3m 45s

Correcting overexposed footage with the Color Balance controls 4m 26s

Expanding contrast ratio with the Color Balance controls 6m 29s

Correcting color casts with the Color Balance controls 5m 33s

Using Primary Curves 7m 11s

Making contrast corrections with the Primary Luma curve 5m 58s

Making color corrections with Primary Curves 6m 9s

Using the Basic and Advanced tabs of the Primary In room 8m 7s

Making primary corrections using the RED tab 7m 17s

7. Making Secondary Corrections 55m 14s

What does the Secondaries room do? 5m 19s

Using the HSL eyedropper 4m 55s

Refining HSL keys with the HSL qualifiers 9m 13s

Creating vignettes 6m 59s

Creating user shapes 10m 3s

Changing colors using the Hue curve 4m 45s

Leaving and removing colors using the Saturation curve 4m 29s

Making luma adjustments to specific colors 3m 38s

Using multiple secondaries 5m 53s

8. Using the Color FX Room 40m 5s

What does the Color FX room do? 5m 37s

Using presets and downloading Color FX looks 5m 21s

Creating node trees 7m 47s

Interlaced footage and node trees 3m 54s

Creating a day-for-night look 6m 48s

Creating a defocused vignette 5m 3s

Creating a "film" look 5m 35s

9. Maintaining Broadcast Safety and Making Corrections Using the Primary Out Room 17m 0s

What is broadcast-safe color? 2m 44s

Using the broadcast-safe controls 4m 13s

Making corrections using the Primary Out room 4m 54s

Maintaining RGB legality with Final Cut Pro's RGB Limit filter 5m 9s

10. The Geometry Room 27m 0s

What does the Geometry room do? 3m 41s

Creating pan and scan adjustments 7m 56s

Automatically motion-tracking corrections 8m 51s

Manually motion-tracking corrections 6m 32s

11. Grade Management 38m 12s

Using multiple grades 6m 19s

Copying and dragging corrections and grades 8m 6s

Saving corrections and grades 9m 9s

Using groups 7m 33s

Using the Still Store room 7m 5s

12. Making Corrections Over Time 25m 37s

How to keyframe in Color 9m 15s

Keyframing exposure changes 5m 57s

Keyframing for a mood change 5m 14s

Keyframing vignettes 5m 11s

13. Conforming and Reconforming Projects 11m 10s

What are conforming and reconforming? 2m 2s

Using a Cinema Tools database to conform a project 5m 54s

Reconforming a Final Cut Pro project 3m 14s

14. Rendering and Output 33m 20s

Preparing for rendering and output 4m 4s

Adding clips to the render queue and rendering 7m 57s

Rendering RED projects 3m 44s

Using the render log 2m 19s

Sending a Color project back to Final Cut Pro 2m 46s

Making changes after rendering from Color 4m 30s

Dealing with gamma and color space for delivery 8m 0s

Conclusion 37s

Goodbye 37s

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