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Color for Video Editors

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

Tags

Color Correction Courses Video Editing Courses Video Production Courses Color Theory Courses Color Grading Courses

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
1. Understanding How People See
  • Color correction should be easy, right?
  • A quick primer: Human visual physiology
  • The psychology of seeing
2. Getting Set Up for Successful Color Correction
  • Controlled and correcting lighting with a neutral environment
  • Reference monitoring and calibration vs. computer monitors
  • The real world: Grandma's pink TV
3. Starting a Grade: Creative Evaluation
  • Learning to creatively evaluate a project
  • Interpreting client direction while understanding client tendencies and references
  • What would you do? Creative evaluation examples
4. Starting a Grade: Time and Effort
  • 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
5. Starting a Grade: Technical Evaluation
  • 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
6. Starting a Grade: Workflow
  • 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
7. Additional Color Correction Management Concepts
  • Timeline level grading
  • Building a correction and look toolkit
Conclusion
  • Summary

Taught by

Robbie Carman

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