Color for Video Editors
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn practical strategies that can help you simplify color correction tasks for nearly any video project.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome and what you need to know before taking this course
- Exercise files
- Essential color correction vocabulary
- Color correction should be easy, right?
- A quick primer: Human visual physiology
- The psychology of seeing
- Controlled and correcting lighting with a neutral environment
- Reference monitoring and calibration vs. computer monitors
- The real world: Grandma's pink TV
- Learning to creatively evaluate a project
- Interpreting client direction while understanding client tendencies and references
- What would you do? Creative evaluation examples
- How long and how much effort will a project take to color correct?
- The six stages of color correcting a project
- How much time and effort: Examples
- The role video scopes play in evaluating shots
- Using a waveform to judge contrast and white/black levels
- Using a vectorscope to judge overall color and saturation
- Using RGB Parade and RGB Overlay waveforms to judge color balance
- Using a histogram to judge contrast and color balance
- Additional scope concepts: Skin tone, colorfulness, and shot matching
- The six parts of grading a project
- In action: Identifying hero shots
- In action: Starting with brightness
- In action: Moving next to color
- In action: Versioning shots
- In action: Saving, comparing, and exporting stills
- In action: Getting to the end and making quick matches
- In action: Worrying about the details
- Timeline level grading
- Building a correction and look toolkit
- Summary
Taught by
Robbie Carman
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