After Effects Guru: Color Grading Footage
3h 11mIntermediate2020-03-11
Authors
Richard Harrington
Digital Video Expert, Educator, Speaker
Course details
Adobe After Effects offers a wealth of tools for making both technical and artistic color changes to footage. Whether color correcting footage for consistency or color grading to create mood, adjusting color is a critical phase of post-production. Instructor Rich Harrington introduces a basic workflow for getting a shot back to its best natural state and shares advanced techniques to push footage further, such as converting it to black and white or adding creative color.
Topics include:
- Evaluating the shot
- Fixing white balance
- Fixing exposure and tone
- Adjusting color
- Converting to black and white
- Reading scopes
- Using adjustment layers
- Creating a film look
- Adding texture
- Working with third-party tools
Topics include:
- Evaluating the shot
- Fixing white balance
- Fixing exposure and tone
- Adjusting color
- Converting to black and white
- Reading scopes
- Using adjustment layers
- Creating a film look
- Adding texture
- Working with third-party tools
Skills covered
Motion GraphicsAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXVisualization and Real-TimeLimited SeriesAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
Introduction
- Color grading footage in After Effects
- Exercise files
- Moving from Final Cut Pro X to After Effects
- Moving from Premiere Pro to After Effects
- Using the Media Browser
- Strategies to improve file naming and timecode
The Color Grading Workflow
- Evaluating the shot
- Fixing white balance
- Fixing exposure and tone
- Adjusting color
- Applying enhancements
- Reusing adjustments
Essential Techniques
- Using adjustment layers
- Applying LUTs with the Lumetri effect
- Saving animation presets
- Strategies for tough white balance - Levels and curves
- Strategies for tough white balance - Neutralizing, part 1
- Strategies for tough white balance - Neutralizing, part 2
- Comparing effects
Fixing Exposure and Tone
- Fixing tone with the Lumetri effect
- Fixing exposure and tone with Curves
- Using auto adjustments
- The Shadow or Highlights adjustment
- Using the Black & White effect for contrast
- Using the Equalize command
Primary Color Correction
- Fixing color cast with tint and white balance
- Using the color stabilizer effect
- Fixing color with primary color correction
- Adding vibrance
- Using photo filters
- Using a reference color checker
- Using blending modes
Secondary Color Correction
- Creating spot colors with the Black & White effect
- Using the Leave Color effect
- Adjusting a single color with the Change Color effect
- Adding masks and mattes to adjustment layers
- Secondary color correction with Curves
Black and White and Color Toning
- Black and white conversion method 1
- Black and white conversion method 2
- Black and white conversion method 3
- Creating duotone, tritone, and pentone effects
- Enhancing with the Colorama effect
- Creating custom gradients
Finishing Touches
- Creating a film look
- Adding a power window
- Adding texture
- Using the creative controls in the Lumetri Color effect
Working with Third-Party Tools
- Creating a LUT with Photoshop
- Creating a LUT with IWLTBAP
- Creating a LUT with 3D LUT Creator
Conclusion
- Conclusion