Color for Video Editors

Course details

Interested in learning more about color correction? In this course, colorist Robbie Carman provides editors and those new to working with color with practical strategies that can help them simplify color correction tasks for nearly any project. Robbie provides crucial information about how people really see and why one's environment plays an important role in successful color correction. He also discusses how to technically and creatively evaluate footage and projects, manage time and effort while color correcting, break down a project into manageable steps, and more.

Learning objectives
How people see
Creatively and technically evaluating a project
Interpreting your client's direction for a project
Estimating how long a project will take
Six stages that happen in a color correction workflow
Timeline level grading
Building a correction and look toolkit

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome and what you need to know before taking this course
02 - Exercise files
03 - Essential color correction vocabulary

1. Understanding How People See

04 - Color correction should be easy, right
05 - A quick primer - Human visual physiology
06 - The psychology of seeing

2. Getting Set Up for Successful Color Correction

07 - Controlled and correcting lighting with a neutral environment
08 - Reference monitoring and calibration vs. computer monitors
09 - The real world - Grandma's pink TV

3. Starting a Grade - Creative Evaluation

10 - Learning to creatively evaluate a project
11 - Interpreting client direction while understanding client tendencies and references
12 - What would you do Creative evaluation examples

4. Starting a Grade - Time and Effort

13 - How long and how much effort will a project take to color correct
14 - The six stages of color correcting a project
15 - How much time and effort - Examples

5. Starting a Grade - Technical Evaluation

16 - The role video scopes play in evaluating shots
17 - Using a waveform to judge contrast and white black levels
18 - Using a vectorscope to judge overall color and saturation
19 - Using RGB Parade and RGB Overlay waveforms to judge color balance
20 - Using a histogram to judge contrast and color balance
21 - Additional scope concepts - Skin tone, colorfulness, and shot matching

6. Starting a Grade - Workflow

22 - The six parts of grading a project
23 - In action - Identifying hero shots
24 - In action - Starting with brightness
25 - In action - Moving next to color
26 - In action - Versioning shots
27 - In action - Saving, comparing, and exporting stills
28 - In action - Getting to the end and making quick matches
29 - In action - Worrying about the details

7. Additional Color Correction Management Concepts

30 - Timeline level grading
31 - Building a correction and look toolkit

Conclusion

32 - Summary