Color 101: An Introduction to Color
Color Correcting and Grading in Final Cut Studio
Our Color training provides you with the right training solutions to help you learn Apple Color for Final Cut Studio Pro. Check our schedule for class dates and prices for Color training in Dallas, Texas or call us for private training at your site.
This two-day hands-on course will familiarize students with Apple’s masterful new color grading and finishing software. Start with the basics of color balancing and correction, and move on to the fine points of secondary grading, including scene matching, using vignettes to isolate and track regions, creating advanced color effects and "looks," skin tone adjustments, adjusting the composition and framing of a shot, and much more.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Working with the Color Interface
- Brief overview of the entire workflow
- Command tricks and techniques
- Roundtrip workflow with Final Cut
Lesson 2: Basic Grading
- Using Auto balance control
- Grading with Color balance controls
- Grading with Curves
Lesson 3: Basic Secondary Grading
- Three types of secondaries
- Performing key-based secondaries
- Keying with HSL qualifiers
- Performing vignette-based secondaries
- Secondary curves
Lesson 4: Advanced Secondary Grading
- Using multiple secondaries
- Combining a key and vignette
- Using multiple keys
- Creating custom masks shapes
- Incorporating curve effects
Lesson 5: Grade Management
- Managing grades on a single shot
- Adding deleting grades
- Setting the beauty grade
- Saving corrections and grades
- Moving grades from clip to clip
- Grouping shots
- Working with multiple grades
Lesson 6: Color Effects
- Using the color effects room
- Applying nodes
- Building color effects
- Saving and reapplying effects as presets
- Working with preset color effects
Lesson 7: Common Recipes
- Black Hawk Down look
- CSI Miami look
- Schinfler's List look
- Flaskback look
- Saturated sunrise look
- Skin diffusion and beauty tricks
Lesson 8: Keyframing Effects
- Animating effects in colors
- Manipulating keyframes
- Navigating to keyframes
- Deleting keyframes
- Animating User shapes
- Keyframing color effects
Lesson 9: Recomposing and Tracking
- Using the Geometry room
- Recomposing Shots
- Animation pan and scan effects
- Tracking objects
- Applying tracking data to corrections
- Offsetting the vignette
- Manual tracking
Lesson 10: Primary Out and Rendering
- Importing clips to the timeline
- Importing EDLs
- Slicing in the Timeline and using the Timeline tools
- Relinking clips