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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.

Course Color 1.5 Essential Training Author Robbie Carman SKU ISBN Release Date 2009-10-29 Duration 7.44 hrs / 82 tutorials Work files Yes Price $ 49.95 Retail price $ 99.95 Language Tags Color

1. Setup Understanding the technical requirements of Color 02:35 The basics of suite setup 05:43 Essential equipment: Three-button mouse 01:28 2. Color Concepts What is color grading? 04:40 Understanding the color wheel and tonal range 04:14 Decoding technical terminology for color grading 07:15 3. Color Workflows Overview of Color workflows 06:38 Round-tripping with Final Cut Pro and Color 07:21 Emulating a tape-to-tape workflow 03:50 The RED workflow: Ingesting as ProRes 06:51 The RED workflow: Ingesting as RED QuickTime files 05:31 Importing DPX and Cineon files to create offline QuickTime files 07:21 4. Preparing a Final Cut Pro Project for Color Evaluating a Final Cut project 06:54 Creating self-contained clips 08:29 Dealing with composited clips 05:50 Working with stills and freeze frames 05:02 Working with speed-adjusted clips 03:52 Working with multiclips 04:11 5. Overview of Color Navigating the Color Finder and opening projects 07:20 Understanding the eight rooms of Color 07:29 Essential preferences and project settings 06:51 Navigating the Color timeline 08:31 Understanding how to read Scopes 06:40 Evaluating contrast with Scopes 06:07 Evaluating color with Scopes 05:00 6. Making Corrections in the Primary In Room What does the Primary In room do? 07:17 Using the Color Balance controls to affect tonal range 05:26 Correcting underexposed footage with the Color Balance controls 03:45 Correcting overexposed footage with the Color Balance controls 04:26 Expanding contrast ratio with the Color Balance controls 06:29 Correcting color casts with the Color Balance controls 05:33 Using Primary Curves 07:11 Making contrast corrections with the Primary Luma curve 05:58 Making color corrections with Primary Curves 06:09 Using the Basic and Advanced tabs of the Primary In room 08:07 Making primary corrections using the RED tab 07:17 7. Making Secondary Corrections What does the Secondaries room do? 05:19 Using the HSL eyedropper 04:55 Refining HSL keys with the HSL qualifiers 09:13 Creating vignettes 06:59 Creating user shapes 10:03 Changing colors using the Hue curve 04:45

Leaving and removing colors using the Saturation curve 04:29 Making luma adjustments to specific colors 03:38 Using multiple secondaries 05:53 8. Using the Color FX Room What does the Color FX room do? 05:37 Using presets and downloading Color FX looks 05:21 Creating node trees 07:47 Interlaced footage and node trees 03:54 Creating a day-for-night look 06:48 Creating a defocused vignette 05:03 Creating a "film" look 05:35 9. Maintaining Broadcast Safety and Making Corrections Using the Primary Out Room What is broadcast-safe color? 02:44 Using the broadcast-safe controls 04:13 Making corrections using the Primary Out room 04:54 Maintaining RGB legality with Final Cut Pro's RGB Limit filter 05:09 10. The Geometry Room What does the Geometry room do? 03:41 Creating pan and scan adjustments 07:56 Automatically motion-tracking corrections 08:51 Manually motion-tracking corrections 06:32 11. Grade Management Using multiple grades 06:19 Copying and dragging corrections and grades 08:06 Saving corrections and grades 09:09 Using groups 07:33 Using the Still Store room 07:05 12. Making Corrections Over Time How to keyframe in Color 09:15 Keyframing exposure changes 05:57 Keyframing for a mood change 05:14 Keyframing vignettes 05:11 13. Conforming and Reconforming Projects What are conforming and reconforming? 02:02 Using a Cinema Tools database to conform a project 05:54 Reconforming a Final Cut Pro project 03:14 14. Rendering and Output Preparing for rendering and output 04:04 Adding clips to the render queue and rendering 07:57 Rendering RED projects 03:44 Using the render log 02:19 Sending a Color project back to Final Cut Pro 02:46 Making changes after rendering from Color 04:30 Dealing with gamma and color space for delivery 08:00 Conclusion Goodbye 00:37