Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / White balance

Do you want us to pay for this is that why you’re not posting your ‘perfect’ white balance. If you don’t know how to color balance a shot as a colorist, your’re in the wrong business.

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / White balance

Hey friend z, Good News … I find out the way of perfect white balance…...if anyone required than contact me…

Topic: Workflow / Correcting via Kelvin

Yes, if you grade RED material, you can. But not for other stuff without the huge amount of metadata. Fixing color temperature may be hard at times, but usually you would start by pulling the color in opposite directions of what the original image is. That would give you a good base.

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / FREE Introduction to Apple Color Course on Vimeo

Ryan Holmes of ‘studio006’ fame has re-uploaded his terrific introductory course to Apple Color an his new Vimeo channel. Check it out.

http://vimeo.com/channels/cutcolorpost

Topic: Workflow / FREE Introduction to Apple Color Course on Vimeo

Ryan Holmes of ‘studio006’ fame has re-uploaded his terrific introductory course to Apple Color an his new Vimeo channel. Check it out.

http://vimeo.com/channels/cutcolorpost

Topic: The art of Color / FREE Introduction to Apple Color Course on Vimeo

Ryan Holmes of ‘studio006’ fame has re-uploaded his terrific introductory course to Apple Color an his new Vimeo channel. Check it out.

http://vimeo.com/channels/cutcolorpost

Topic: Workflow / Correcting via Kelvin

Hi Folks

I was using Camera Raw in Photoshop and saw the White Balance control driven by colour temperature. Does such a plug-in/method exist for Color/FCP/FCPX or motion?

Merry Christmas Everyone:)
Lee

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / Tipical newbie question.. be patient with me God has not finished with me yet!!!

my aim is to understand some simple way to begin to use COLOR and from there go in deep in learning the capabilities af the program. I understand that in this way I use only a part of the possibilities but I do think that only beginning to work I can encrease my knowledge of COLOR

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / Tipical newbie question.. be patient with me God has not finished with me yet!!!

Thank you Marcus I’ll follow your suggestions. It’s a great thing to find help from skilled persons like you.. it’s the magic of the net from the beginning to now!!
You can take a look to my work with video in my tematic channel on Youtube, it’s the only professional psychiatric channel on this platform and I hope to develop at best in the next future increasing the quality of my video also using Colr at best following your suggestions.
Take a look at the URL: http://www.youtube.com/PsychiatryonlineITA1

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / Tipical newbie question.. be patient with me God has not finished with me yet!!!

Hi Francesco,

Im trying to understand what you mean by “I’d like to simply use the FX vignette correction I see the effect in Color but I’m not able to export the corrected video sequence to FC”

I admit, Color looks imtimidating at first but once you know your way around, it’s a really nice program to do your color correction in.

For beginners there’s the Studio 006 Podcast which is a nice beginners guide to Color. make sure you start at Episode 32 which is the oldest episode there.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/studio006/id262446058

Steve Hullfish has some introductory tutorials on Pro Video Coalition

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/shullfish/P48/

Same deal. Oldest episode first, work your way back through the blog posts to the front.

There’s also some introductory tutorials here

http://library.creativecow.net/tutorials/applecolor

Another one here

http://vimeo.com/1056932

Good luck, once you get your head around it , it’s a really cool program! Don’t be afraid, you can’t break anything

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / Tipical newbie question.. be patient with me God has not finished with me yet!!!

As you well know the problems with softwares as Color is the beginning.
I usually try to understand using the program and reading the manual but… Actually I’m in a black ole and I need some help from skilled users.
Idont pretend to become a colorist but I’d like to be able to gegin to use Colr in asimple but effectice way.
I have understood how to import from FC
I have understood how to correct the colors
I have understood how to export to FC
BUT..
I’d like to simply use the FX vignette correction I see the effect in Color but I’m not able to export the corrected video sequence to FC
Can you in simple words tell how to do?
Thank from Italy and happy new 2012 and Xmas

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / Lomo Picture Look

VERY NICE MARCUS!!!
It helps me a lot!!!
Thank you so much!! :)

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / Lomo Picture Look

Hey Bruno,

After trawling through the net yesterday researching this look, I came across many, many pages of recipes, but I distilled them down to just four links and here they are.

http://best-photoshop-tutorials.blogspot.com/2011/05/all-about-lomo-effect-in-photoshop.html

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/or/cross-processing.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjV7yvnS-wI

http://vimeo.com/14100446

Happy Coloring!

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / Lomo Picture Look

Hi Marcus,

Thank you for the answer and I’ll test this grade soon. I think this grade is a good-looking and maybe with some dirt this will resolve the look!

Thank you again!

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / Lomo Picture Look

Hi Bruno,

See Edited info at the end of this post for import instructions

I’ve only had a cursory look, but it seems like ‘cross processing’. There’s a preset I created on the site called Ekta Cross Pro
Check it out, it’ll give you a start.

http://www.coloruser.net/grades/34-ekta-cross-pro

Here’s the test image:

EDIT

In order to use the image in Color, you need to convert it to tiff.
Drop it on Quicktime 7 and File >> Export >> Movie to Image Sequence, with settings as Tiff at 24 fps.
This will create two files. Import one of them into Color through the Setup Room by navigating to them then using the Import Shot feature in the Setup Room.

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / Lomo Picture Look

Hi everybody!

I would like to know which are the main features to get not just a simple Lomo look, but a great Lomo look.
I know it used to do some vignette, but in mostly cases the contrast and saturation is much variable and I need to know if exist another interesting features that brings a Lomo sensation.
Does somebody have some presets for Apple Color to illustrate?

Thank you all!!

Topic: Showroom / Stuff I have graded from CCS Venezuela

Most of my work is commercial use and Music Videos.
I live in Venezuela and shoot with either RED, Alexa or 5d/7D
Our last 35mm project was so scratched by the lab that we decided not to shoot film four years ago.

Here are a few

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCQCBLYiW98&feature=g-upl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxkRXNTrKwM&feature=g-upl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBbbxOLeif0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHlcxjvlltI&feature=g-upl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nxAkUwGHZA&feature=g-upl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKD5ZN_Cu0o&feature=g-upl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmwdxzJBWxs&feature=g-upl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMCAnMmcX5E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddZnOvO264o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g43KeFMrhE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seqv_RhDayg

twitter @f3rn4ndrum5

Topic: Workflow / First impressions on the Autocue T-series Grade "A" monitor

Hi All,

My name is Paddy Taylor I am the sales manager at Autocue, I am a former editor (Offline) so I am pretty savvy when it comes to grading if not an expert myself. If anyone has any questions about our monitors then please email me paddy dot taylor at autocue dot com.

Thanks

Paddy

Topic: The art of Color / please how do i create this look

I agree with Ski.
It looks like a blue lift, to me.

Topic: The art of Color / gamma

Can someone explain how to best use the gamma adjustment? especially in matching two shots?

Topic: The art of Color / please how do i create this look

just from looking at it quickly (and I did not play with footage so this is just a guess) I would desaturate the footage to about all saturation and push the blacks slightly to the magenta and then push a fair amount of blue into the mid tones. The highlights I am not sure but maybe slightly to the blue ish magenta but not much. But heavily desaturate it and blue in the mid tones.

Topic: The art of Color / please how do i create this look

im looking to create this look can someone please give steps or post a user preset . THANK YOU THIS IS THE SMAPLE VIDEO THAT IM TRYING TO RECREATE THIS LOOK http://youtu.be/k4dYB8oe7gQ

Topic: Workflow / First impressions on the Autocue T-series Grade "A" monitor

Nice write up, Ola. Thank you for sharing.
I hadn’t heard anything about Autocue until now.

/Jörgen

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / problem coloring scene

I guess the stripes and spots is an effect you’ve added later?
I think the mood is great. I see no need to adjust the seats.

What you probably are experiencing here (hard to tell from a still – may be very different watching it in motion) is that the deep reds are very saturated, while there’s a lot of noise going on. This may give the image a little more life than you’d want. So there’s a certain balance; keep the reds or decrease the saturation of the reds a little.

You know, I some times have problems grading some shots because I know what it looks like in the original footage, and I may even have been there myself and seen the location up close, so it’s really easy to get stuck on the thought “I should preserve the true nature of the location”. But guess what – most people don’t notice such things. If you can sell the shot and the scene as a whole, it doesn’t matter what it looks like in real life. Maybe that has something to do with the issue you’re having?

Again, I think the mood is spot on.

Topic: Workflow / First impressions on the Autocue T-series Grade "A" monitor

I’ve been looking to replace an old Panasonic LCD I’ve been borrowing for a year now. The blacks are blue and milky – fast past due date. Something has to be done.

A cry for help and tips on whether I should go FSI or OLED on Twitter got me in touch with Paddy at Autocue, and that’s where it all started. I’m not here to fill you in with deep technical insight. I leave that to others. However, I will tell you about my experience so far.

Read the rest on my website