• Working with the Color Interface 
  • Setting Up Your Computer, Setting Up a
    Project, Understanding the Eight Rooms:
    Color’s Task-Based Workflow, Navigating
    Your Sequence, Exploring the Setup Room, Applying Basic Grades, Viewing Your
    Images, Performing Secondary Grades, Employing Color FX, Applying Final Touches, Panning and Scanning, Utilizing Still Stores, Correcting the Sequence and Introducing the Render Queue Room

• Basic Grading
  • Exploring the Primary Room, Using the Auto Balance Control,Grading with the Color
    Balance Controls, Grading with Curves, and Understanding Additional Controls
• Basic Secondary Grading
  • Three Types of Secondaries, Performing
    Key-Based Secondaries, Keying with HSL Qualifiers, Performing Vignette-Based Secondaries, Creating a Look, and
    Secondary Curves

• Advanced Secondary Grading
  • Using Multiple Secondaries, Combining a Key and a Vignette,Using Multiple Keys, Creating Custom Mask Shapes, Combining Vignettes, and Incorporating Curve Effects
• Grade Management
  • Managing Grades on a Single Shot, Switching Between Grades, Adding and Deleting Grades, Duplicating a Grade, Setting the Beauty Grade, Saving Corrections and Grades, Deleting Saved Corrections, Organizing Corrections,Saving Secondary Corrections, Saving Grades, Moving Grades from Clip to Clip, Dragging Individual Corrections, Grouping Shots, Applying Grades to Groups, and Working with Multiple Grades

• Color Effects
  • Using the Color Effects Room, Applying Nodes, Building Color Effects, Controlling Node Order, Monitoring Inactive Nodes, Adding Nodes to Existing Trees, Saving and Reapplying Effects as Presets, Modifying an Applied Preset, and Working with Preset Color Effect

• Common Recipes
  • Black Hawk Down/Mogadishu Look, CSI
    Miami Look, Schindler’s List Look, Flashback Look, Saturated Sunrise Look, and Skin Diffusion and Beauty Tricks
• Keyframing Effects
  • Animating Effects in Color, Manipulating Keyframes, Navigating to Keyframes,
    Deleting Keyframes, Keyframing Other
    Rooms, Changing Interpolation Settings, Animating User Shapes, Adding Intermediary Keyframes, and Keyframing Color Effects

• Recomposing and Tracking
  • Using the Geometry Room, Recomposing Shots, Animating Pan and Scan Effects, Applying Tracking Data to Corrections, Offsetting the Vignette, and Manual Tracking
• Primary Out and Rendering
  • Global Changes and Final Tweaks, Modifying and Replacing Primary Out Room Settings, Creating a Stylized Look for a Finished Project, Applying Stylized Primary Out Corrections to Grouped Clips, Manually Controlling Broadcast-Safe Output, Adjusting Black Levels, Limiting the Range of Black Level Adjustments, Manually Adjusting White, Black and Chroma Levels , Rendering Color Projects, Adding Clips to the Render Queue, Rendering Shots and Sending to Final Cut Pro, and Using Color’s Archive Feature

Course Prerequisites

Students should have the following prerequsite knowledge to attend this course:

• basic Macintosh OS knowledge

• Level One Final Cut Pro end user certification or have attended a Final Cut Pro 101, 200 or 250 course

• Previous color grading experience. (i.e. have used {or attempted to use} the colour corrector in Final Cut Pro, Shake, Motion, After Effects, Combustion, Boris Red, etc.)

If none of the above apply then instructor discretion may used for admission to the course 

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Color
Color correcting and
grading in Final Cut Studio
by David Gross and
Alexis van Hurkman