When you start a grade, you need to look at each shot technically. To help you do this, there are video scopes that let you accurately evaluate the color balance of each shot. What are these video scopes and how do they work? In this video, author Robbie Carman discusses other things scopes can help you evaluate, like skin tone and colorfulness.
- To wrap up this chapter, I wanna talk about…a couple additional concepts that the scopes help with,…and the first concept I wanna talk about…is the idea of colorfulness.…I think it's pretty easy when you look at a shot to go,…okay, there's the contrast, there's the white point,…there's the black point, using the waveform.…It's pretty easy to evaluate overall saturation…and overall hues that are present using the vectorscope,…and it's pretty simple, once you get the hang of it,…to use the R-G-B parade or the waveform set to overlay mode…to evaluate overall color balance.…
But one thing that's a little foreign…is this idea of colorfulness in a shot.…I answer a lot of questions from people who're going,…yeah, why doesn't my shot just look like it does in a movie?…Well, one of the reasons that a shot that…you might take on your own doesn't look like…a big-budget Hollywood feature is colorfulness.…So let's take a look at what that is.…Here in this shot, you can see I have a street scene,…if I scrub through it, that looks pretty good.…
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6/21/2018- How people see
- Creatively and technically evaluating a project
- Interpreting your client's direction for a project
- Estimating how long a project will take
- Six stages that happen in a color correction workflow
- Timeline level grading
- Building a correction and look toolkit
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Exercise files2m 32s
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1. Understanding How People See
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The psychology of seeing5m 2s
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2. Getting Set Up for Successful Color Correction
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3. Starting a Grade: Creative Evaluation
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4. Starting a Grade: Time and Effort
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5. Starting a Grade: Technical Evaluation
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6. Starting a Grade: Workflow
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In action: Versioning shots5m 59s
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7. Additional Color Correction Management Concepts
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Timeline level grading2m 57s
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Conclusion
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Summary51s
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