242: FCP X – New Color Tools & Color Correction

242: FCP X – New Color Tools & Color Correction

$19.97

If you want to do a better job fixing color problems or color grading your footage, this session will give you a host of new tools and techniques you can put to work immediately to make your projects look better.

- OR -
This course is also included with our monthly membership plan, click below to learn more.
BECOME A MEMBER
or Login here

Categories: ,

 

Presented: Jan. 10, 2018

Several times each month, 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: 61:56
Download file size: 944 MB (Downloaded as a ZIP file)
Format: QuickTime movie (HD: 1280 x 720)

DOWNLOAD NOTE: After you complete the store checkout process, you will see a Download Link on the Order Confirmation page. This link allows you to download the product to your computer. You are given four attempts to download the file. Since this title is downloaded, a CD/DVD will not be shipped to you.


(Click to view a larger image.)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Color correction and color grading is the final step in making our images look their best. The enhanced color tools are one of the big new features in Apple Final Cut Pro X 10.4. In this session, Larry Jordan takes a closer look both and illustrates how to use all the new tools to enhance the look of your projects.

This session will cover:

  • The basics of color and color correction
  • Display and customize the video scopes
  • Create an HDR library and project
  • New automatic color balance tool
  • New color wheels
  • New color curves
  • New Hue/Saturation curves
  • Keyframing a color correction

Along the way, Larry will illustrate:

  • How to determine what’s wrong with your images
  • Faster ways to remove color casts
  • Improved ways to color correct and grade a scene

If you want to do a better job fixing color problems, or color grading your footage, this session will give you a host of new tools and techniques you can put to work immediately to make your projects look better.

AUDIENCE LEVEL

This intermediate-level session requires some knowledge of Final Cut Pro X, but does not require any specific knowledge of color. This training is delivered as a single QuickTime movie.

CHAPTER MARKERS

To help you quickly find the information you need, we include chapter markers in the QuickTime download  to simplify navigation. Click here to learn how to display them in your download.

CONTENT OUTLINE

  • Welcome
  •  – Agenda
  • Definitions
  •  – Key color terms
  •  – Video scopes in FCP X
  •  – Gray-scale values and emotions
  •  – 7 terms for gray-scale levels
  •  – 3 Rules of Color Correction
  • Reading Video Scopes
  •  – Analyze clips first
  •  – Keyboard shortcuts
  • Video Scope Demos
  •  – Display video scopes
  •  – Change display settings
  •  – Vectorscope color targets
  •  – Analyze example images
  •  – Create an HDR Library
  •  – Create an HDR Project
  •  – View HDR in the scopes
  •  – Scope summary
  • Simple Color Correction
  •  – New Autobalance Color Tool
  • New Color Tool Demos
  •  – Thoughts on color grading
  •  – Color correction workflow
  •  – List of Tool Demos
  •  – Analyze faces
  •  – Table of skin tone values
  •  – The New Color Inspector
  •  – The Color Curves
  •  – Color preferences
  •  – Color keyboard shortcut
  •  – The Color Wheels
  •  – Correct color casts
  •  – Correct skin tones
  •  – Keyframe a color correction
  •  – Hue/Saturation Curves
  •  – Broadcast Safe effect
  • Summary
  • Questions