| Description |
xiv, 373 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.) |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Primary Color Correction: Tonal Range Primer -- Monitoring -- Video Monitor -- Viewing Environment -- Waveform and Vectorscopes -- Alternative Displays and tools for Analysis -- First Things first ¿ black level -- Reading the Waveform Monitor -- Setting the Black level -- Setting Highlights -- Setting Gammas or Mid-tones -- Defining Contrast -- Practice playing the Gamma against the Highlights and Shadows -- Chapter 2 ¿ Primary Color Correction: Tonal Tools -- Main Tools for Tonal Corrections -- Sliders and numerical controls for tonal range -- Don¿t use Brightness or Contrast Controls -- Color Primary In Room -- Avid Symphony and Color Finesse HSL Control Tab -- Histograms or Levels -- Forms and functions of Histograms -- Curves Tab -- S Curve tip -- Curves tutorial -- Isolating Tonal Ranges with Curves -- Luma Range Display -- Luma Range Editing -- Alternative to Luma Range -- Chapter 3 ¿ Primary Color Correction: Color Control Primer -- Balancing the image -- Analyzing color casts -- Using your eyes -- Color and the Waveform -- Color and the Vectorscope -- Histograms -- Eyedropper -- Balancing color with a Flat Pass Waveform monitor -- Color Contrast -- Chapter 4 - Primary Color Correction: Color Manipulation Tools -- Hue Offset Wheels -- Hue Offsets with RGB Parade -- Saturation Controls -- Histograms -- Curves -- RGB set-up, gamma and gain sliders -- Channels -- Printer Lights -- Filters -- Chapter 5 ¿ Secondary Color Correction Primer -- The purpose of Secondary Correction -- Are you qualified? -- Color Vector Isolation -- Isolating a vector in FCP -- Spot Color Correction (Vignettes or Power Windows) -- The Vignette -- User defined shapes -- Using spot color correction to re-light -- Color Vector with Garbage Matte -- Secondaries are crucial -- Chapter 6 ¿ Secondaries with the Pros -- Vignettes -- Vignetting the Ultralight Flyover scene -- Vignetting the ¿Kiss¿ Bedroom Scene -- The key is subtlety -- Spot Color Correction -- ¿Windowing¿ the Ultralight Flyover scene -- Vignette to create day-for-night -- Vector and Luma qualified secondaries -- Secondary corrections can focus attention -- Using Secondaries to Match -- Using a Luma key to build contrast -- Chapter 7 ¿ Correcting Shots -- Three more grades of the ¿Banker¿s Light¿ Scene -- Saving a shot with bad color cast -- Four trips down the "alley" -- Three passes over the barn -- Building up a weak piece of video -- Using many tools to fix a shot -- Grading with Curves in Primary -- Broadening the Color Palette -- Chapter 8 ¿ Telling the Story -- Color Changes the Story -- Talk like a D.P. -- The story is the script -- Emphasize elements to further the story -- Imposing Story on the Boxer -- Story Epilogue -- Chapter 9 ¿ Matching Shots -- Matching the Lions of the Art Institute -- Matching scene to scene -- Matching when lighting changes in a scene -- Matching AND saving! -- Matching Conclusion -- Chapter 10 ¿ Creating Looks -- Enough is enough -- Preset looks -- Festa¿s PowerGrade library revealed -- Preset Looks in Apple¿s Color -- Match the look -- Looks for promos and opens -- True Grit -- Graphic looks -- Music video inspiration -- Skip Bleach or Bleach bypass -- Day for Night -- Change of Seasons -- Chapter 11 ¿ Miscellaneous Wisdom -- Starting off -- Communicating with Clients -- The Future of Color Correction -- Taking it to extremes -- The importance of Color Contrast -- Maintaining a look -- Looking at real life for inspiration -- Multi-tasking -- Smoke -- Keeping butts in the seats -- Books of Note -- Conclusion -- Index -- Index should include all sidebars and glossary items |
| Summary |
Provides direct access to the skills, insights and techniques of some of the postproduction industry's most prominent digital video colorists, delivering practical skills to the postproduction pro seeking to improve their color grading craft. --from publisher description |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Color cinematography.
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Color computer graphics.
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Color computer printers.
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Color display systems.
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Color photography -- Digital techniques.
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Digital video -- Editing.
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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| LC no. |
2007036364 |
| ISBN |
0240809904 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780240809908 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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