Color Correction Handbook: Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Hurkman, Alexis, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Editing--Data processing.

Motion pictures.

Digital video--Data processing--Editing.

Digital video.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 533 p.) : col. ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Peachpit Press 2010

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The colorist working in film and video is the individual responsible for breathing life into characters, bringing a mood into a scene, and making the final product polished and professional-looking. This craft is an art form that often takes years to perfect and many trial-and-error attempts at getting it right. Here to help both the newcomer and professional who needs to brush up on their skills is the first book to cover a wide variety of techniques that can be used by colorists, no matter what system they’re using. Whether you’re using a video editing package with a color correction tool built in (Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro) of a dedicated application (Apple Color, Assimilate Scratch, Baselight, or DaVinci), this book covers it all. From the most basic methods for evaluating and correcting an overall image, to the most advanced targeted corrections and creative stylizations typically employed, you’ll find this highly organized book a solid reference that’s easy to navigate. The accompanying DVD contains footage as well as cross-platform exercises and project files for readers to experiment with. After reading the techniques, readers will learn to apply the methods that all of the color correction applications use, how to problem-solve and trouble-shoot, how to maximize the effectiveness of each tool that’s available, and they will discover how to creatively combine techniques and tools to accomplish the types of stylizations that colorists are often called upon to create.

Contents:

Cover

Table Of Contents

Introduction

1 Setting Up A Color Correction Environment

Choosing a Display

Setting Up a Color Correction Suite

Configuring a Grading Theater

Other Hardware for Color Correction

2 Primary Contrast Adjustments

How We See Color

Luminance and Luma

What Is Contrast?

Evaluating Contrast Using Video Scopes

Controls to Adjust Contrast

Expanding Contrast

Compressing Contrast

Y'Cbcr Luma Adjustments Vs. Rgb Luma Adjustments

Redistributing Midtone Contrast

Setting Appropriate Highlights and Shadows

Contrast and Perception

Contrast During Exhibition

Dealing With Underexposure

Dealing With Overexposure

3 Primary Color Adjustments

Color Temperature

What Is Chroma?

Analyzing Color Balance

Using Color Balance Controls

Color Temperature Controls

Using Color Curves

Saturation Adjustments

Understanding and Controlling Color Contrast

4 Hsl Qualification And Hue Curves

Hsl Qualification in Theory

Individual Qualifier Controls

A Basic Hsl Qualification Workflow

Tips for Using and Optimizing Hsl Qualifications

Different Ways of Using Hsl Qualifiers

Hue Curve Adjustments

Other Types of Hsl Adjustments

5 Shapes

Shape Ui and Controls

Highlighting Subjects

Creating Depth

Shapes + Hsl Qualifiers

Aggressive Digital Relighting

Shapes and Motion

6 Animating Grades

Grade Animation Controls Compared

Correcting Changes in Exposure

Correcting Hue Shifts

Grade Transitions Using Through Edits and Dissolves

Artificial Lighting Changes

Creative Grade Animation

7 Memory Colors: Skin Tone, Skies, And Foliage

What Are Memory Colors?

Ideals for Skin Tone

Techniques for Adjusting Complexion Using Secondaries

Ideals for Skies

Techniques for Adjusting Skies

Ideals for Foliage.

8 Shot Matching And Scene Balancing

Color Timing

Strategies for Working With Clients

How to Begin Balancing a Scene

How to Match One Shot to Another

Recycling Grades

Scene Matching in Action

9 Quality Control And Broadcast Safe

Quality Control Issues That Affect Colorists

Video Signal Standards and Limits

Six Structured Steps to Legalizing Your Picture

Monitoring and Legalizing Saturation in Detail

Rgb Color Space Legality and the Rgb Parade Scope

Other Video Scope Options for Broadcast Gamut Monitoring

Creating Graphics and Animation With Legal Values

10 Creative Techniques

Bleach Bypass Looks

Blue-Green Swap

Blurred and Colored Vignettes

Color Undertones

Cross-Processing Simulation

Day-for-Night Treatments

Duotones and Tritones

Flashing

Flattened Cartoon Color

Glows, Blooms, and Gauze Looks

Monitor and Phone Glow

Sharpening

Tints and Color Washes

Vintage Film

Index

Bonus Content for Chapter 9

Bonus Content for Chapter 10.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612990342

9780321719744

0321719743

9781282990340

1282990349

9780321719737

0321719735

OCLC:

1027171508