Course Overview
This two-day hands-on training course in Birmingham City centre will familiarise students with the colour correcting capabilities of Final Cut Studio. Start with the basics of colour balancing and correction, and move on to the fine points of secondary grading, including scene matching, using vignettes to isolate and track regions, creating advanced colour effects and looks, skin tone adjustments, adjusting the composition and framing of a shot, and much more.
Dates: This course will run on an on-demand basis.
What you will learn:
- Correcting Contrast and Colour Balance
- Navigating the Colour Rooms
- Understanding Waveform and Vectorscopes
- Using Trackers
- Working with Vignettes
- Creating Colour Effects.
Day 1
Controlling Contrast
Understanding Contrast, Controlling Contrast with the Colour Corrector 3-Way Filter, Setting the Mood with the Mids and Creating Artificially High Contrast.
Controlling Colour
Understanding Colour Balance, Using Primary Colour Correction, Understanding the Colour Balance Controls, Identifying and Correcting Colour Casts, and Manipulating Colour Directly in the Blacks, Mids and Whites.
Colour Correcting for Scene Continuity
Achieving Visual Harmony, Comparing Two Clips, Setting Up for Scene-by-Scene Colour Correction, Colour Correcting a Complete Scene and Project Tasks.
Working with the Colour Interface
Setting Up a Project, Understanding the Eight Rooms, Colour's Task-Based Workflow, Exploring the Setup Room, Applying Basic Grades, Viewing Your Images, Performing Secondary Grades, Employing Colour FX, Applying Final Touches, Panning and Scanning, Utilizing Still Stores, Correcting the Sequence and The Render Queue Room.
Basic Grading
Exploring the Primary Room, Using the Auto Balance Control, Grading with the Colour Balance Controls, Grading with Curves and Understanding Additional Controls.
Basic Secondary Grading
Three Types of Secondaries, Performing Key-Based Secondaries, Keying with HSL Qualifiers, Performing Vignette-Based Secondaries, Creating a Look and Secondary Curves.
Day 2
Advanced Secondary Grading
Using Multiple Secondaries, Combining a Key and a Vignette, Using Multiple Keys, Creating Custom Mask Shapes, Combining Vignettes and Incorporating Curve Effects.
Colour Effects
Overview of the Colour FX Room, Applying Nodes, Building Colour Effects, Controlling Node Order, Monitoring Inactive Nodes, Adding Nodes to Existing Trees, Saving and Reapplying Effects as Presents and Working with Preset Colour Effects.
Grade Management
Managing Grades on a Single Shot, Switching Between Grades, Adding and Deleting Grades, Duplicating a Grade, Setting the Beauty Grade, Saving Corrections and Grades, Deleting Saved Corrections, Organizing Corrections, Saving Secondary Corrections, Saving Grades, Moving Grades from Clip to Clip, Dragging Individual Corrections, Grouping Shots, Applying Grades to Groups and Working with Multiple Grades.
Keyframing Effects
Animating Effects in Colour, Manipulating Keyframes, Navigating to Keyframes, Deleting Keyframes, Keyframing Other Rooms, Changing Interpolation Settings, Animating User Shapes, Adding Intermediary Keyframes and Keyframing Colour Effects.
Recomposing and Tracking
Using the Geometry Room, Recomposing Shots, Animating Pan and Scan Effects, Tracking Objects, Applying Tracking Data to Corrections, Offsetting the Vignette and Manual Tracking Techniques.
Primary Out and Rendering
Global Changes and Final Tweaks, Modifying and Replacing Primary Out Room Settings, Creating a Stylized Look, Applying Stylized Primary Out Corrections to Grouped Clips, Manually Controlling Broadcast Safe Output, Adjusting Black Levels, Limiting Black Level Adjustments, Manually Adjusting White and Black Levels, Manually Adjusting Chroma Levels, Rendering Colour Projects, Adding Clips to the Render Queue, Rendering Shots and Sending to Final Cut Pro and Using Colour's Archive Feature.
Certification Exam
Students take an end user exam to earn Apple Certified Pro, Colour Correction Level One status.
Assessment
The Certified Professional (ACP), Level 1 in Color correction in Final Cut Studio certification is granted upon successful completion of the Color correction in Final Cut Studio Level 1 exam.
This course also counts toward Final Cut Studio (FCS) Master Pro certification. when combined with successful completetion of three of the following exams:
Entry Requirements
Who should attend?
This course is designed for existing Final Cut Pro users who want to learn more about the colour correction and grading capabilities of Final Cut Studio. The course is designed for those who prefer hands-on and interactive instruction to best explore the functionality.
Prerequisites
Students should have the following prerequisite knowledge prior to attending the course:
- Basic knowledge of the Macintosh OS
- Knowledge of colour correction terminology is helpful.l
- Basic knowledge of Final Cut Pro 7 is required. Level One Final Cut Pro End User certification is preferred. Ideally, students will have attended a Final Cut Pro 101, 102, 200 or 250 course.