Product Description
The DVD covers the Color Interface because that is the biggest stumbling block for anyone trying to use this application. It looks completely different than just about anything else in the Mac marketplace so before you can really get into anything else with Color, you need to understand the interface.
My focus is to get you comfortable with Color and to show you just how simple the interface truly is to operate. People tell me all the time they re intimidated by the interface and ask me why it looks the way it does. Because it was not designed for video editors, it was designed for professional Colorists who are used to operating systems with a similar layout as Color.
So if you are a video editor or someone who has never sat in a color correction suite before, then this DVD is definitely for you. There is a method to the madness that is Color and by taking the time to walk you through the rooms and the controls, I feel that is the best way for you to truly begin to enjoy this powerful tool. Heck Apple handed you a $25,000 color correction tool for free, so get in there and start using it!
What s actually on the DVD? The DVD contains 9 tutorial videos and at times we go room by room, control by control and other times we jump around the interface depending on what the natural flow is of that area of the interface. In the case of Setup, well that is all self-contained whereas the Secondaries Room very often involves the ColorFX and Geometry Room. So where appropriate we will flow from room to room.
The tutorials are provided in Quicktime Format, approximately 1024x768. (We had to leave a little room for the player controls.) The Chapters are:
Chapter 1: Opening up Color for the First Time, starting Color from the Projects Screen, and setting up the screens for the lessons.
Chapter 2: What is Color?
Chapter 3:Setup / User Preferences
Chapter 4: Setup / Other Tabs
Chapter 5: Primary In Room Overview
Chapter 6: Secondaries Room with some Geometry
Chapter 7: ColorFX Room & Primary Out
Chapter 8: Geometry, Still Store, Render Queue
Chapter 9: Final Thoughts Copying and Saving Grades, Taking Grades with you and some other final thoughts.
This is the DVD the author wishes he'd had when he started working with color. He started out on this tool when it was still called Final Touch HD. There was no widespread training and barely a manual. Gaining skills from an accomplished Colorist, Walter Biscardi worked to develop the skills that now allow him to create looks that were once the domain of only the most high end of editing offices. Apple then purchased the company that created the software, and now incorporates it as the re-branded Apple Color with the Final Cut Studio package.
Review
"This is one of the best training DVD s I ve seen, and well worth the price. I am now confident and ready to jump in with both hands."
--Gary Morris McBeath, SaltAire Cinema Productions- Package Dimensions : 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.93 ounces
- Director : Creative COW
- Media Format : NTSC
- Run time : 2 hours
- Release date : October 17, 2007
- Actors : Host Walter Biscardi
- Studio : Creative COW Master Series DVD-ROM
- Number of discs : 1
