Presented: Jan. 23, 2013

Learn the Video Scopes and Improve Color Correction

Each week, Larry Jordan presents a live, online, video training webinar discussing issues related to video editing and post-production. For a list of upcoming webinars, click here.

Duration: 58:01
File size: 202 MB (ZIP file)
Format: QuickTime movie (HD: 1280 x 720)

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TRAINING DESCRIPTION

Color correction is the process of fixing problems with your images. We never intend to shoot bad pictures, but, well, sometimes bad things happen to good intentions. In this video training, you’ll learn how to use the video scopes in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 to analyze your images, how and why to correct gray-scale settings, then two different filters you can use to make adjustments.

Watch as master trainer Larry Jordan shows you how to locate and read the video scopes in Premiere. How do a quick color adjustment to a clip to fix an obvious problem. Then, how to use the power of the 3-way color corrector filter to dial-in exactly the corrections you need. Along the way, you’ll learn a whole series of tips to help make your images look great!

In this video tutorial, you will learn:

• How to configure workspaces and display video scopes in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
• How to understand the information in the video scope displays
• How to spot image problems
• How to correct gray scale (contrast) problems
• How to fix color problems, such as color casts
• How to modify the “time of day” in a clip
• How to enhance an image

AUDIENCE LEVEL

This intermediate-level webinar is designed for Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 editors who want to understand how to read video scopes, correct image problems, and improve their look. To make the most of this session, you should have a general familiarity with how Premiere works. (You only need the ability to play QuickTime movies to watch this training.)

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Content Outline

• • Agenda
  • Key definitions
  • Illustrating gray-scale categories
  • How to display scopes in Premiere
  • Illustrate the Waveform Monitor
  • Illustrate the Vectorscope
  • Illustrate the RGB Parade scope
  • Illustrate when colors are over-saturated
  • Illustrate when white levels exceed broadcast safe
  • Provide a table for adjusting skin tones by ethnic types
  • Answer audience questions

• DEMO: How to read the Waveform Monitor
• DEMO: Evaluating gray-scale values in an image
• DEMO: How to read the Vectorscope
• DEMO: Evaluating color values in an image
• DEMO: How to read the RGB Parade
• DEMO: Changing workspaces for color correction
• DEMO: Using the Fast Color Correction filter
• DEMO: Using the 3-way Color Correction filter
• DEMO: How and where to set black levels
• DEMO: How and where to set white levels
• DEMO: How, where, and when to adjust mid-tone levels
• DEMO: How to add or remove “fog” from an image
• DEMO: How to adjust skin tones
• DEMO: How to adjust colors when you don’t have any references

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