HD Color Correction Course September 2012

We open a new call for our color correction course for HDTV and digital cinema.

Color correction has gone from being a technique handled by gurus who jealously guarded their secrets in dark rooms with priceless equipment to being within the reach of any filmmaker. However, the fact that color correction software has dropped in price does not mean that the discipline has changed and that anyone without previous knowledge knows what to do with it. Color correction techniques are still an independent discipline between post-production and cinematography. Knowing the basics of color grading, regardless of the software, and knowing how to apply these techniques to each particular production is what turns a simple software operator into a colorist.

This course will explain the basics of color correction, but also how to prepare a material from shooting to conforming, through offilne editing, thinking about the final color correction. Using simple but powerful tools such as Avid MC, Apple Color, Magic Bullet Looks or DaVinci Resolve, the workshop will show that color techniques go far beyond the mere “correction” that the term says, being able to improve or completely change the aesthetics of the production.

DURATION: 12 hours

TEACHER: Luis Ochoa.

Luis Ochoa is a colorist, post-producer and director of photography. 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. You can see here some examples of his work and here his IMDB profile.

SOFTWARE: Avid Media Composer, Apple Color 1.5, Magic Bullet Looks, DaVinci Resolve on Apple Mac pro stations (one per student)

AIMED AT: Avid and FCP editors, directors of photography, digital image technicians, producers, filmmakers…

PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: Familiarity with the concepts of SD and HD video signal. Basic photographic knowledge.

PRICE: 280€ (250€ if the reservation is made before September 14th). There are also other discounts (not cumulative between them)

WHEN: September 29th and 30th. Saturday from 16 to 20h and Sunday from 10 to 14h and from 15:30 to 19:30h (may vary slightly).

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: CC35-290912
GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

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

CONTENTS

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

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

• Digital intermediate concepts: HD, 2K and 4K resolutions. Online codecs. RAW files. Bit depth.

• Offline-online digital forming. Conforming process. DNxHD and uncompressed codecs. Transcoded.

• Concept of gamma In film (film sensitometric curves), professional video and computers.

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

• Calibration in DI: Luts and densitometers, conversion between color spaces.

• Manual calibration: When and how.

• Monitor characteristics: resolution, wiring, dynamic range, dominants.

• Forming systems: AAF, XML, EDL, etc.

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

• Apple Color color corrector. Explanation of the different rooms

• 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.

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

• Editing complementing editing: Avid Media Composer and Avid Symphony

• Magic Bullet Looks: Explanation of the Avid and FCp7 plugin for look creation

• DaVinci Resolve: An introduction to Blackmagic’s advanced color correction tool.

• Render types and qualities. Final rendering. Processing bits

You can download the documentation to take the course here

For more information and to reserve a place, please send an e-mail to info@709mediaroom.com.