DURATION: 8 hours
TEACHER: Luis Ochoa. See colorist reel, CV, IMDB file
SOFTWARE USED: Avid Media Composer 5 (explanation of Symphony 5)
AIMED AT: Avid MC editors who want or need to learn the color correction tool.
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: Familiarity with the concepts of SD and HD video signal. Basic photographic knowledge. Familiarity with Avid MC editor.
PRICE: Consult with the following discounts
WHEN: Consult next call for applications
WHERE: Ondas Formacion COURSE CODE: In next call for applications
You can download the documentation for the course here.
GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
– Understand the overall post-production process and the place of color correction in it.
– Learn the different types of color correction in film, video and digital cinematography
– Learn the technical basis of color correction regardless of the tool used.
– Learn the philosophy and methodology of conform and color correction work in Avid Media Composer.
CONTENTS
– Comparison of photochemical and digital color correction. Concept of primary, secondary and mask color corrections.
– Photochemical color correction processes and effects.
– Analog-digital conforming. Film digitization: Telecine and negative scanner.
– Digital Intermediate. DPX files in Avid.
– Common concepts of digital conforming and DI: HD, 2K and 4K resolutions. Bit depth. RAW concept
– Offline-online digital conforming. Avid processing. DNxHD and uncompressed codecs. Transcoded.
– Gamma concept in 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.
– Types of connections for professional monitors.
– Use of measuring instruments: waveforms, vectorscope, histograms
– Avid Media Composer color corrector: HSL controls, Newton spheres, curves, etc.
– Explanation of all the elements of the tool one by one and its practical applications.
– Work process in color correction. Steps to follow and correction of common problems.
– Composition applied to correction: Masks, vignettes and secondary corrections in Media Composer.
– Dynamic corrections. Animation of the corrections.
– Safe color correction for television broadcast.
– Creation of looks: Tinting, bleach bypass, “Schindler effect”, etc.
– Differences between MC and Symphony correctors
– Types and qualities of render. Final rendering
– Digital-photochemical conversion: Kinescoping, laser or led filming.
– Digital master formats: magnetic, files, frame sequence, etc.
