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Dec 18th, 2007
Pro Color Correction at your finger tips ... if you're shooting video, Color WILL be your new favorite toy!
This new tutorial series is produced by Michael Wohl, whom many of you know from our Final Cut 101: Core Final Cut 6 tutorials, while other know Michael as one of the original designers of Apple's Final Cut Pro software.
Color is like candy for video producers. It allows you to remove that annoying video "haze" by popping your contrast and saturation to make the images on the screen look sharp and professional. But you can't correct your video's color without understanding the science behind the edits you are making, and that's where this tutorial really sparkles.
If you've seen any of Michael's movies, you know he's a master story teller. More than most people, Michael knows how screen color adds to the emotional effect of moving pictures. Subtle corrections, like adding blush to the cheeks of an embarrassed character, or changing a dull gray ocean into a vibrant blue tropical sea ... these subtle changes can make or break a video, and color is the perfect tool for the Job.
But Color doesn't stop there! With the ability to do complex secondary color correction, Color lets you change certain hues in the frame without affecting others. Turn a living, green forest into a dead brown, and depressing scene. Change a character's shirt from pink to red. Add Color's sophisticated motion tracking abilities into the mix, and your red shirt will stick to the character, even as the character moves around the scene. This is some mind blowing stuff, and you'll learn how it works as you watch this tutorial.
Chapter 1: Exploring Color
Section 1: Intro To Color
01. Introduction
02. System Requirements
03. Final Cut To Color
04. Editng Window Overview
05. The Setup Room
06. The Primary In Room
07. The Secondaries Room
08. The Other Rooms
09. Opening & Saving
10. Importing Clips
11. Project Settings
Section 2: Using The Scopes
12. Dual Display Mode
13. Vector Scope Overview
14. Waveform Monitor Overview
15. 3D Scope Overview
Section 3: Basic Corrections
16. Adjusting Contrast
17. Broadcast Safe Pictures
18. Using The Color Wheels
19. Using Curves
20. Playing & Previewing Clips
21. Correcting Flesh Tones
22. Flesh Tone Trick
23. Shot to Shot Comparisons
24. Choosing A Master Shot
25. The Still Store Room
Chapter 2: Primary & Secondary Correction
Section 4: Primary Color Correction
26. Getting Into Primary Correction
27. Spinning Your Color Wheels
28. Deeper Into Curves
29. Deeper Into Contrast
30. Using The Luma Curve
31. Primary Correction Review
32. Using AutoBalance
33. Timeline Summary
34. Primary Summary
Section 5: Secondary Color Correction
35. What Is Secondary Correction?
36. Isolating Colors
37. Inside / Outside Masks
38. Using Vignettes
39. Isolating Colors With Curves
40. Combining Secondaries
41. Keys & Vignettes
42. Masking With User Shapes
43. Advanced User Shapes
44. Combining Vignettes
Chapter 3: Deeper Into Color
Section 6: Grade Management
45. Comparing Multiple Grades
46. Grades In The Timeline
47. Using Beauty Grades
48. Deleting & Resetting Grades
49. Copying Grades
50. Timeline Selections
51. Saving Grades
52. Organizing Saved Grades
53. Saving Complete Grades
54. Grouping Grades
Section 7: Advanced Color
55. Color Effects Room Overview
56. Deeper into Geometry
57. Pan & Scan Tab
58. Flipping & Flopping Clips
59. Motion Tracking
60. Manual Tracking
61. Keyframing Primaries
62. Keyframing Secondaries
63. Keyframe Interpolation
64. The Render Cue
65. Return To Final Cut