Introduction
Welcome and what you need to know before taking this course
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Exercise files
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Essential color correction vocabulary
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1. Understanding How People See
Color correction should be easy, right?
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A quick primer: Human visual physiology
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The psychology of seeing
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2. Getting Set Up for Successful Color Correction
Controlled and correcting lighting with a neutral environment
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Reference monitoring and calibration vs. computer monitors
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The real world: Grandma's pink TV
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3. Starting a Grade: Creative Evaluation
Learning to creatively evaluate a project
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Interpreting client direction while understanding client tendencies and references
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What would you do? Creative evaluation examples
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4. Starting a Grade: Time and Effort
How long and how much effort will a project take to color correct?
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The six stages of color correcting a project
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How much time and effort: Examples
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5. Starting a Grade: Technical Evaluation
The role video scopes play in evaluating shots
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Using a waveform to judge contrast and white/black levels
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Using a vectorscope to judge overall color and saturation
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Using RGB Parade and RGB Overlay waveforms to judge color balance
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Using a histogram to judge contrast and color balance
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Additional scope concepts: Skin tone, colorfulness, and shot matching
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6. Starting a Grade: Workflow
The six parts of grading a project
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In action: Identifying hero shots
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In action: Starting with brightness
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In action: Moving next to color
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In action: Versioning shots
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In action: Saving, comparing, and exporting stills
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In action: Getting to the end and making quick matches
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In action: Worrying about the details
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7. Additional Color Correction Management Concepts
Timeline level grading
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Building a correction and look toolkit
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Ex_Files_Color_for_Video_Editors.zip
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