Baselight Avid course

Baselight is one of the most reputable color correction systems for film, television and advertising, a high-end system reserved so far only for big budget projects. However, a few months ago its manufacturer, Filmlight, decided to develop it as a plug-in for Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro 7 editors, keeping all the essential functions, the user interface and, most importantly, the color correction calculations. The result is a powerful color correction tool perfectly integrated into the video editor, making it possible for operators to perform elaborate color corrections easily.

In this Baselight course we will use the Avid Media Composer version, focusing on the plug-in’s color correction tools and its interaction with its big brothers, since it is possible to export the corrections made in the plug-in to an independent Baselight station. At the end the student will be able to perform color corrections using the plug-in (on Avid or Final Cut) and will know the basic interface of a Baselight station, a system so far not very accessible for learning.

TEACHER: Alberto Cayuela

Alberto Cayuela has been working as a digital colorist for several years. During the development of his professional career Cayuela has worked on a wide variety of color correction systems such as Baselight, Nucoda, DaVinci Resolve or Apple Color. He has worked as a colorist in television (“Cuéntame como pasó”, “Un país para comérselo”), feature films (“Clara no es nombre de mujer”, “Ni pies ni cabeza”, “Lo que ha llovido”), documentaries (“La fuente de la vida”), music videos for bands like Carlos Jean or Leticia Labouat or advertising for brands like Coca Cola or Estrella de Galicia. He is currently color grading the 13th season of “Cuéntame cómo pasó” and the feature film “2 francs 40pts” in the Baselight correction system.

DURATION: 12 hours

PRICE: 280 ¤ (250 ¤ booking before February 9th) Applicable the “amigo promotion” and other discounts (not cumulative between each other)

WHEN: March 2nd and 3rd. Saturday from 16 to 20h and Sunday from 10 to 14 and from 15:30 to 19:30 (times 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 telephone (668840783).

COURSE CODE: BL60-020313

EQUIPMENT USED: Baselight on Avid MC on Apple professional equipment (one per student)

AIMED AT: Colorists, Avid and Final Cut Pro editors, postproduction coordinators, image technicians, filmmakers, etc.

PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: Basic knowledge of color correction theory, it is not necessary to know the Avid Media Composer editing program, the functions related to it will be explained.

CONTENTS:

1. Filmlight and its color corrector Baselight

• Baselight One HD, 2, 4, 8
• Baselight plug-in for Avid and FCP 7

2. Installation, license and hardware requirements, Keyboards and tables available

3. Starting Baselight

• User interface, presentation and recognition
• General menus and options
• Control panel
• Explanation of the correction system by means of layers
• Explanation of Image window, display modes
• Explanation of the Oscilloscope waveform window “Scopes”.

4. Color tools

• Filmgrade
• Videograde
• Curves
• Six vectors
• Hue shift

5. Color matching with “secondary” mattes

• Shape masks
• Dkey
• Hue angle
• MatteRGB
• Inside/outside (masks, dkeys, hue angle)

6. Secondary accuracy, fine-tune selections

• Blur, erode, dilate, median, sander, threshold

7. Animation. Keyframing

8. Resize, pan&scan, transform, crop

9. Filters. Luts. Looks

10. BLG Export corrections to large Baselight. 100% compatibility

11. Practical exercises

Each point of the syllabus will be supported by a demonstration by the teacher and each student will be followed up at his or her workstation.

For any information you can send an e-mail to info@709mediaroom.com