May
We announce a new call for our intensive DaVinci Resolve course, this time we will give the course during the week for those of you who want to spend the weekend resting or doing other activities.
After being acquired by the company Blackmagic and that this brutally reduced the price of the software (and also released a FULLY operational free version) Resolve has become the standard for many medium-high level post-production companies, being also the natural replacement of Apple Color in color correction with Fnal Cut Pro X. It is a program designed by colorists for colorists, not only does it have powerful and subtle color correction tools at different levels. It also has numerous ways to carry out quick corrections depending on the material we are working with (film, advertising, documentary, etc) and the possibility of establishing different workflows with the most popular editors (Avid, FCP, Premier) or with tapes or files (Red, Arri Raw, etc).
A little gem of color correction that is now offered for free. Let’s hope that this kind of actions serve to show that a colorist’s salary should not be based on the price of the software he/she uses, but on his/her talent and experience.
TEACHER: Luis Ochoa
Luis Ochoa is a colorist, post-producer and director of photography (junior). In recent years he has worked as a colorist in London, color grading projects for the LFS, and in Spain color grading feature films (Cecilia y Juan), documentaries (Por la gracia de Luis) or television (Tierra de Lobos). He has coordinated the post-production of numerous projects for the company Avid Technology and holds the ACI (Avid Certified Instructor) certification. Here you can see his colorist’s reel and IMDB file
DURATION: 12 hours
PRICE: 280€.
DISCOUNTS: “amigo promotion” and other discounts apply.
WHEN: June 26, 27 and 28, 2012. Afternoons from 15 to 19 hours
WHERE: Ondas Formación See in Google Maps. If you need any kind of information you can contact 709 MR by email or phone (668840783).
COURSE CODE: RE28-260612
EQUIPMENT USED: DaVinci Resolve Lite on Apple Professional workstations (one per student)
AIMED AT: Colorists, Avid and FCP editors, directors of photography, digital image technicians, producers, filmmakers, etc.
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: Familiarity with the concepts of SD and HD video signal. Basic photographic knowledge. Basic knowledge of post-production and color. This course does not teach the theory of color correction or its processes. It is a course in DaVinci Resolve software.
CONTENTS:
- Introduction to DaVinci. Databases, users and preferences
- Configuration: projects, sessions, users
- Project and user settings: HD, 2K and 4K resolutions. Bit depth. RAW, luts, etc.
- Processes to be performed in DaVinci: Ingest, conforming, color correction and exporting
- Types of conformations and workflows: tape, files, EDL, AAF and XML
- Preparing a sequence for color correction in Avid MC and FCP 7
- Scene cut detection for full movie cutting
- Basic editing tools. Forming problems
- Load audio from file or quicktime
- Use of measuring instruments: waveforms, vectorscope, histograms, etc.
- Primary: dials, faders, curves
- Autocorrections
- Movement through the different timelines. Linked clips
- Secondary: eyedroppers, presets and “curves”.
- Masks, Power Windows
- Defocusing and rescaling. Working in anamorphic
- Nodes, types of nodes: serial, parallel, layer and outside
- Correction by clip, track and transition
- Dynamic corrections. 3D Tracking
- Stabilization
- Management of memories, stills and power grades
- Compare one or more frames
- Reference films
- Versions and groups
- Work process in color correction. Steps to follow and correction of common problems
- Composition modes and keys
- Database management and power grades
- Proxies
- Generation of customized luts
- Final rendering. Easy setups for Avid and FCP7
- Custom rendering. Render queue
You can download the documentation for the course here
