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Intro to Color Correction
In this article, I want to talk about what happens when you make a color or exposure adjustment to a clip; and illustrate this with screen shots.
Plugin Review: Irudis Tonalizer
Irudis Tonalizer is a color grading tool that allows very subtle manipulation of your images, especially grayscale values. This review describes what it is and when to use it.
FCP X: Quick Color Correction
This color correction technique in Final Cut Pro X isn’t perfect, but it is REALLY fast and gets you close enough to keep your job
Preventing Video Buzz in A Video Screen
A subscriber recounts the difficulties, and the workaround that fixed them, he experienced with Buzz lines cropping up in a project.
Technical: Understanding The Broadcast Safe Filter
For those of you interested in a more technical look at the Broadcast Safe filter, Dennis Couzin, technical assistant to a video documentarian based in Germany, sent me the following article that he wrote.
Creating Background Colors for Video
What happens when you change Final Cut’s display background to any color except black? Much less than you think. Here’s why.
Why Video Bit Depth Matters
What’s the difference between 8-bit and 10-bit video and why should editors care? Well, if you are doing a lot of effects, you should care a lot and this article explains why.
White Balancing During a Color Change
Dealing with shifting color temperatures during shooting presents a raft of problems during editing. This article describes what you can do during shooting to compensate for color temperature changes, as well as how to “fix it in post.”
Using Digital Anarchy’s Beauty Box
You know the drill. The client didn’t have the money for makeup when they were shooting the video, then is horrified to discover in post that their star/kid/sweetie has a humongous zit that spoils all the close-ups of the video they dumped in your lap to edit.
What Is Color Sampling? Graeme Nattress
Technical Guru Graeme Nattress presents a lucid, and illustrated, explanation of why colors in DV, Betacam, and DVD are handled differently. If you do any kind of color work, you need to read this article.
How to Read Scopes
Understanding how to read the Waveform Monitor and Vectorscope are essential to getting the best possible pictures out of Final Cut Pro. This article gives you an overview of how to read them and what they mean.
Scopes in Final Cut
Until version 5.1.2, the scopes in Final Cut were notorious for being almost, but not quite, accurate. That all changed with 5.1.2. and they’ve been enhanced in FCP 6. This article provides a more technical discussion on the quality of Final Cut Pro’s scopes, especially in regard to Color.
