Color

$59.00

Format: 1 DVD-ROM
Duration: 4 hours / 13 Lessons
Platform: Apple Macintosh

With Apple’s new Color, color grading and color correction has never been more versatile and easier to do. You can choose one of more than 20 looks provided as custom effects in the Color FX Binx, modify and save it for later use, and even reuse it on other projects. Editors will find Color easy to use as it combines familiar features with intuitive new 3D Color Space.

top 5 things you will learn:

1. Color Rooms
2. Monitors and Scopes
3. Organizing Tracks for FCP
4. Color Nodes
5. Motion Tracking

Alexis Van Hurkman

Alexis Van Hurkman is a writer, director, and colorist based in New York. As a colorist, Alexis works on a wide variety of narrative and documentary programming. In 2006 Alexis' own feature "Four Weeks, Four Hours" screened internationally at the Breckenridge, Salento Italy, Portland Longbaugh, Toronto ReelHeART, and FAIF film festivals. Alexis has written extensively about postproduction with a column on Color in "Edit Well," and books including the "Encyclopedia of Color Correction" and "Advanced Color Correction and Effects in Final Cut Pro." Working for Apple computer, Alexis also wrote the user manuals for Color 1.0, Shake 3.5 and 4, and Final Cut Pro 2, 3, and 4. To read more about Alexis and to check out his work, please visit http://www.alexisvanhurkman.com/.

Color Grading and Correction

You can choose one of more than 20 looks provided as custom effects in the Color FX Binx, modify and save it for later use, and even reuse it on other projects. Experiment with and save variations of the four “live” grades available to you and even import grades pre-created by professional colorists and editors.

Intuitive Task-Based Workflow

Editors will find Color easy to use as it combines familiar features with intuitive new 3D Color Space. In order to access the tools you need, Color utilizes a task-based workflow prearranged into eight "rooms," or workspaces ranging from the simple “Primary In,” to the more advanced "Render Queue."

  1. Introduction to Color
  2. User Preferences
  3. Color Rooms and Workflow
  4. The Timeline
  5. Scopes and Broadcast Safe
  6. Preparing for Send To Final Cut Pro
  7. Primary Corrections
  8. Secondary Corrections
  9. Color Effects
  10. Scene to Scene Color Correction
  11. Primary Out Room
  12. Animating Grades and Effects
  13. Rendering and Output