Color 101 (Apple Certified)
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In Leeds
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Type
Training
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Location
Leeds
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Duration
3 Days
This Apple-certified hands-on course will familiarize you with Color 101, Apple's masterful new color grading and finishing software. Suitable for: Existing Final Cut Pro users who want to learn more about the colour correction and grading capabilities of Color 101.
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About this course
Attendees should have a basic knowledge of the Macintosh Operating System. Level One Final Cut Pro End User certification is preferred. Ideally, you will have attended a Final Cut Pro 101 course.
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Course programme
This Apple-certified three-day hands-on course will familiarize you with Color 101, 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.
You will learn how to:- Set up a project and navigate the Color rooms
- Make basic adjustments
- Advanced primary correction
- Basic secondary correction
- Using vignettes
- Applying effects and creating looks
- Recompositing the shot and making final adjustments
- Tracking in the Geometry Room and rendering, exporting and archiving.
- Set up a project and navigate the Color rooms
- Make basic adjustments
- Advanced primary correction
- Basic secondary correction
- Using vignettes
- Applying effects and creating looks
- Recompositing the shot and making final adjustments
- Tracking in the Geometry Room and rendering, exporting and archiving.
Day 1
Lesson 1 Setting Up a Project and Navigating the Color Rooms
Description:
Setting up, Primary In, Secondary Rooms, Color FX, Primary Out, Geometry, Still Store, Final Print, Transferring Final Cut Pro Projects to Color, Standard-definition and High-definition Formats, Frame Rates, Project Frame Sizes, Broadcast Safe Settings, and Preventing Illegal Video Signals
Lesson 2 Making Basic Adjustments
Understanding Scopes, Adjusting Contrast, Primary Colour Balancing, Defining, Lift, Gain and Gamma, Hue Controls and Correction, Saturation Controls and Correction
Lesson 3 Creating and Recalling Grades: Advanced Primary Correction
Switching between Grade Banks, Dragging and Dropping Grades, Grouping Shots and Grading Groups, Checking Continuity and Still Store Bin
Day 2
Lesson 1 Basic Secondary Correction
Using Hue, Saturation and Luma Curves, Using the Eyedropper, Keying, Using HSL Selectors, and Fixing Skin Tones
Lesson 2 Using Vignettes: Secondary Correction
Using Vignettes to Isolate Regions, Inside and Outside Vignettes, Tracking Vignettes to Points, Keyframing -Secondary Controls, Using Multiple Vignettes to Achieve a Grade and Relighting
Lesson 3 Applying Effects and Creating Looks: Color FX Room
Commonly Used Grade Effects, Presets, Using Nodes, Day for Night, Bleach Bypass, Dream Sequence, Edge Vignette, Creating a Film Look, Using Old or Damaged Film-Vintage Effect, Saving and Recalling your Favourite Effect
Day 3
Lesson 1 Recompositing the Shot and Making Final Adjustments
Panning and Scanning, Using Keyframes, Repositioning the Frame, creating Custom-Shaped Vignettes, Clipping Saturation and RGB and Final Adjustments and Corrections
Lesson 2 Tracking in the Geometry Room
Using Trackers, Advanced Tracking Techniques, Applying Trackers to Vignettes and Shapes
Lesson 3 Rendering, Exporting and Archiving
Shots to Render Queue, Print Options, Final Gather Options, Exporting JPEGs, and Exporting
Color 101 (Apple Certified)