MC239 | Colour Grading with Avid Media Composer v6
Turn good footage into Great Footage
Tap-Quiz
My footage looks cold. How can I warm it up?
Use the Midtones Hue Offset wheel, drag the crosshair on the I-Line (towards aprox. 11 o'clock).
Topics include
- Colour Correction Interface
- RGB vs. YCbCr Colour Space
- Reading Y-Waveform and Vector Scopes
- Correcting Tonal Range
- Keyframing Colour Corrections
- Using the Curves Group
- Using Natural Match
- Compensating for White Balance Errors
- Using Colour Correction Effect Templates
- Using Safe Colour Warnings
- Using the Safe Colour Limiter
Overview
This course explains the fundamental techniques for colour correcting shots or enhancing the look of a program on Avid Media Composer and will prepare you to work effectively with a colourist.
What's Covered
We learn to use the Colour Correction toolset in Media Composer 6.
What do we do with Colour Correction?
There's two main things. You can compensate for camera or developing problems, ensuring that the footage looks as it was shot. Or, you can use colour as a storytelling tool, like the CSI shows, 24 and Traffic (film) did: You assign colour schemes to locations and adjust the colours of the shots so the audience will know where the character is without the need for establishing shots.
How does the Colour Correction toolset compare to the Colour Effect?
Quite simply, Colour Correction allows for fine, subtle adjustments and finessing of the colour in your image. In contrast, if you use the Colour Effect, people are likely to notice that you did something. The Colour Effect doesn't have the granularity that the Colour Correction toolset has.
Is this course taught on Windows or Mac?
Media Composer works and looks exactly the same on Windows and Mac OS, with the exception that two keyboard keys (control & command) are reversed. Because of that, we normally teach it on Mac. If you'd prefer to take the course with Avid on Windows, we'd be more than happy to prepare a workstation with Avid Media Composer running on Windows.
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Instructor Bio
Woody has been successful as a professional video editor, working as a production editor in the Arts & Entertainment division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Woody has recently finished up writing Media Composer Professional Picture and Sound Editing, the official courseware for MC201 at Avid Training Partners world-wide. He has spent years performing online and offline editing for broadcast television. He was also a visual effects compositor on Season 4 of Lexx.
While living in England, Woody worked for Avid as a specialist in Media Composer and Avid DS. He taught editing courses for Avid and served as a consultant for the European Professional Services group of Avid.
He was a post-production consultant on Batman Begins, and a technical consultant on Harry Potter's 2 and 3. He was a trainer in broadcast news workflow at Al Aan TV in Dubai, TV3 and RTE in Dublin, BBC London, Aberdeen and Glasgow, and spent a year working for TV2/Kobenhavn, Denmark's 24-hour news channel.
Splice is endorsed by the Director’s Guild of Canada, Atlantic Regional Council, with whom Splice has had a training partnership program since 2008.
