Presented: June 5, 2013

Learn How to Use Color to Magnify Emotions

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

Duration: 50:17
File size: 174 MB (ZIP file)
Format: QuickTime movie (HD: 1280 x 720)

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TRAINING DESCRIPTION

In past webinars, we talked about how to read the video scopes and use the color correction tools. This is a great way to learn how the color correction technology in Final Cut Pro X works. But it doesn’t provide a lot of help when you are trying to create a “€œlook”€ for a scene, or trying to get a bunch of different clips to match.

In this video training for Final Cut Pro X, hosted by Larry Jordan, go beyond simple color correction as he takes three different scenes and shows how to use color to enhance the emotion of each scene. Larry illustrates how to use the video scopes to spot problems, then resolve them using the color tools in FCP X. Along the way, he gives you tips you can use to improve the image quality of your next project.

If you are new to color correction in Final Cut Pro X, we suggest watching this tutorial first to learn how the color tools work: Manual Color Correction in Final Cut Pro X, because this session assumes a basic understanding of how to use the video scopes and how the color correction tools in Final Cut Pro X work.

During this webinar, you’ll learn how to color grade three scenes:

• Use a “Looks” effect to turn a scene shot during the day into night.
• Enhance a winter scene by making it look “colder.”
• Use shape masks and the broadcast safe filter to enhance the emotion in a scene about reconciliation.

AUDIENCE LEVEL

This intermediate-level webinar is designed for a Final Cut Pro X editor who is looking for color techniques to enhance the emotions of their scenes. (This video training is a QuickTime movie. You don’t need to own any other software to watch this movie.)

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Content Outline

SCENE 1 – DAY FOR NIGHT

• DEMO: Use video scopes to analyze the scene
• DEMO: Determining grading priorities
• DEMO: Key questions to answer before grading
• DEMO: Applying a look to make a day scene look like it was shot at night
• DEMO: Comparing the difference between actually shooting at night and applying a filter.

SCENE 2 – A COLD WINTER DAY

• DEMO: Use video scopes to analyze the scene
• DEMO: Adjusting gray scale values to make the scene more “wintry”
• DEMO: Adjusting saturation to make a scene look colder
• DEMO: Adding a color cast to remove energy from a scene
• DEMO: Creating a compound clip to apply a color change to multiple clips

SCENE 3 – RECONCILIATION

• DEMO: Adding a shape mask to remove an over-exposed window
• DEMO: Adding a second shape mask to decrease the visibility of a foreground object
• DEMO: Boosting mid-tones to make an actor more visible
• DEMO: Creating a compound clip to apply color changes to multiple clips
• DEMO: Applying a black-and-white filter
• DEMO: Key-framing the black-and-white filter to have saturation change over time
• DEMO: Using a color mask to create a “Pleasantville effect” where the image is black and white except for one object in color
• DEMO: Adding a shape mask to correct for problems in creating the color mask
• DEMO: Illustrate how to color calibrate your computer monitor

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