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Use color to improve your storytelling, deliver critical emotional cues, and add impact to your videos. Beginning with a clear, concise description of color and perception theory, this book shows you how to analyze color correction problems and solve them-whatever NLE or plugin you use. Experienced editors and colorists in their own right, the authors also include the wisdom of top colorists, directors of photography, and color scientists to deliver this insightful and authoritative presentation of the theory and practice of color correction.
Optimize the quality of your video with a working understanding of the essential color correction concepts and power-user tips. Learn how to use waveform monitors and vectorscopes as creative tools to analyze your images. Then get your hands dirty with step-by-step explanations of how to employ the entire desktop toolkit including hue offset wheels, color curves, histograms, and luma ranges. Tutorials provide an array of correction techniques and give you experience working through the diagnosis and correction of color problems with your own tools. Primary and secondary spot correction and day for night are only a few of the techniques you will practice while discovering how to improve the color, tonal range, and look of your footage so that even non-uniform, poor-quality video can be seamlessly incorporated into a beautiful, effective, finished piece.
The companion CD-ROM includes graphic files for the tutorial projects, software tools, plugins, and full-length interviews with renowned experts.
"All those great color illustrations, wow! It presents the subject in easy-to-understand language and offers very helpful sample images to help reinforce the concepts."-- Wes Plate, president, Automatic Duck, Inc.
"...demystifies the art of color correction — lets you in on the secrets of top professionals in an accessible and interesting way -- indispensable." -- Charlie White, DV author and columnist, DigitalVideoEditing.com "This book does what the user manuals can't-it teaches color correction, step-by-step, from theory to practice.a must-read for any serious online editor." -- Susan Perla, editor-producer, NBC Network News, Today show "...the best guide I've ever seen. It's complete and detailed, and I learned a great deal from it even though I've been color correcting for years." -- Alan Miller, VP Postproduction, Moving Pictures "A great reference for all digital artists, from the diligent freelancer to the top colorist." -- Van Ling, VFX supervisor and DVD producer
"The theory and knowledge in this book is immense... If you're serious about editing, you can't afford to not have this book." -- Mike Ashcraft, editor, www.musicvideoinsider.com
"...important concepts are conveyed clearly. ... The sudden clarification of some tool you've been unwittingly dialing up and down for years is one of the great values of this book." -- S.D. Katz, millimeter magazine
"If you are someone who is beginning to explore color correction as an added skill to your nonlinear editing experience, then you should spend some time reading (and then re-reading) this book to make sure the information sinks in so your corrected video looks great." -- Stephen Schleicher, DigitalMediaNet.com
ISBN: 9781578202010
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