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 / 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: 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 / 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 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 / Please which way?

Can’t give a detailed answer right now, but will say that colour/luma keys and multiple secondaries will be your friend.

check out creative cow.net
and geniusdv.com
and bright line pictures
for the general overall principle. Learn that and then experiment with your imagery.

Also, if your’e really new to Color , I recommend this video podcast
to get you up and running quickly. Start with ep32, which is in fact the first lesson.

Topic: The art of Color / 2 vignette

Have a look in the Color FX Room for “Defocus Vignette’.

Topic: The art of Color / Creamy fashion grade

It looks kinda lo-contrast magenta-ish with yellow highlights ?

Primaries

I lifted the blacks and pushed them in a Magenta direction.
With the mids I pushed them warm and brought the levels down a bit.

Desaturation main and Highlights

ColorFx

I luma keyed the highlights

and gave them a good dose of blur and composited that over itself using Nattress G-Blend set to Screen mode, just to ‘puff’ the highlights a bit.

Primary Out

Bring down the highlights so you can raise the midtones, thus making that range less contrasty. Send the highlights yellow-ish.

However, not all contrast should be banished so I added a gentle S-curve to bring a little of it back in the shadows.

Hope this helps.

-M

Topic: Off Topic / digital grading magazine

The closest you’re going to get is the Taoofcolor.com website. They have a regular blog, newsletter, and great training products.

Topic: The art of Color / What program can you use to find out the color of a wallpaper or websi

Try Kuler

Topic: The art of Color / Low Key lighting

Nelson, I use Photobucket.com nice and easy.

To post an image do this.

Topic: Off Topic / matrox mxo2 mini

Shane Ross over at CreativeCow.net’s Color forum uses this gear. He’s a good ask. Maybe update to the latest drivers ?

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / Importing a grade into Apple Color

I haven’t seen the behaviour you’re describing. Which Grade did you download?

Topic: The art of Color / help

Shendy, please adjust your image code like this. Then your images will show up.

Ungraded

Sat

De-Sat

Ungraded

Sat

De-Sat

Ungraded

Sat

De-Sat

Push the Shadows Cyan a bit, Push the Mids Yellow a bit.
Add a little bit of contrast curve.

Sat – #note desaturated shadow saturation

De-Sat #note desaturated highlight saturation.

Use these as a starting point. Improve and adjust to taste.

-M

Topic: The art of Color / help

patience…we’re working people you know :)

Topic: Workflow / workflow premiere pro

Yeah, you could Export an uncompressed Quicktime “Baked Master” out of Premiere and an EDL as well. Inside Color, import the EDL, ticking “Use as Cut List”, then browse to your uncompressed QT and it should import with the cuts in the right place. I should note however that this only worked for me on simple cuts-only projects with everything on V1. Anything more than cuts and dissolves, then it doesn’t work so well ! so I would go with the XML way I suggested earlier.

Topic: Workflow / workflow premiere pro

Hi Estaban, I’m just going from what I vaguely remember. Does PP have an ability to import and export FCP XML?

I found this tutorial. It seems like it answers your question.
If you have a flash-blocker in safari, disable it or use a different browser, coz I can’t see that tutorial in safari with click-to-flash. It doesn’t even show up.
I would then follow the instructions in this tutorial on how to prep your timeline for import into Color. Hope this helps!

Topic: The art of Color / Admin: Could you please make Sticky on all subforums- How to post an image to the forums

I’d also like to add that a lot of users these days are posting to the wrong subforums. A cursory look inside will reveal the extent of mis-placed topics these days</grump>

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / Color FX not showing.

I tried building your tree here. Obviously the footage that i’m using is not going to look the same. You’re doing some kind of blur/ outer glow?

what’s your intent? how is this supposed to look?

maybe post a graded frame of one that looks right and an ungraded frame so we can apply the effect here?

other than that, I’m not sure.

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / Doing a ving. using a custom shape

Squares or circles. haven’t seen much else on TG. For Custom, Just give it a go in the Geometry Room.

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / import shapes

No. Not possible. All user shapes have to be created within the application.

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / Colorist Tip Tweets and Blog

Nice work. Rss’d.

Topic: Tips, Tricks and Tutorials / New Color Grading Book Out

Yup, reading it now. It’s nice.