DURATION: 12 hours
TEACHER: Luis Ochoa. See colorist reel, CV, IMDB file
SOFTWARE: Avid Media Composer 5, Final Cut Studio 3, Avid Symphony, Kodak Look Manager System…
AIMED AT: Avid and FCP editors, directors of photography, digital image technicians, producers, filmmakers… EQUIPMENT USED: 8 professional MacPro computers. The student is provided with his own equipment unless he benefits from the friend promotion. In both cases the reduced number of participants guarantees the quality of the education.
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: Familiarity with the concepts of SD and HD video signal. Basic photographic knowledge.
PRICE: 310€. Applicable the following discounts
WHEN: June 4 and 5, 2011. Saturday from 16 to 20h and Sunday from 10 to 14 and 15 to 19h (times may vary slightly).
WHERE: Ondas Formacion COURSE CODE: CC04-040611

GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

• Understand the overall post-production process and the place of color correction in it.
• Understand the differences between photochemical color correction and digital intermediate, in order to know how to choose the most suitable for each project
• Learn the technical basis of color correction regardless of the tool used.
• Learn the philosophy and methodology of color correction work with common software.

CONTENTS

• Comparison of photochemical and digital color correction. Concept of primary, secondary and mask color corrections.

• Common concepts of analog and digital conforming: HD, 2K and 4K resolutions. Online codecs. DPX and RAW files. Bit depth.

• Offline-online digital conforming. Avid processing. DNxHD and uncompressed codecs. Transcoded.

• Analog-digital conforming. Film digitization: Telecine and negative scanner. Digital Intermediate.

• Logarithmic and linear gamma curves. Correction and preview luts. Film sensitometric curves.

• Photochemical color correction processes and effects. Explanation of Kodad Look Manager preview software.

• Concept of connection and calibration of monitors.

• Use of measuring instruments: waveforms, vectorscope, histograms, etc.

• Avid Media Composer/Symphony color corrector. HSL controls, Newton’s spheres, curves, channels, etc.

• Explanation of all the elements of the tool one by one and their practical applications.

• Work process in color correction. Steps to follow and correction of common problems.

• Composition applied to correction: masks, chromas, lumas and/or secondaries.

• Dynamic corrections. Animation of corrections.

• Introduction to the Apple Color tool. Explanation of the different rooms

• Creation of looks: Tinting, bleach bypass, “Schindler effect”, etc.

• Render types and qualities. Final rendering.

• Digital-photochemical conversion: Kinescoping, laser or led filming.

• Digital master formats: magnetic, archival, frame sequence, etc.

You can download the documentation for the course here. For more information and reservations, please send an email to info@709mediaroom.com.