Apple Color Essential Training Lynda.com: Review
A while ago, Lynda.com released a training title called Apple Color Essential Training, by Robbie Carman.
Since I am a Permium member of the wesite, I was able to download the lesson files, but also if you purchase the DVD, you can get hold of them that way.
Your tutor for this title, Robbie Carman, is a friendly, and knowledgeable teacher, and he leads you through 13 chapters of this title.
In the early parts of this title, Robbie explains what each room has in it, and what you can do, and shows you example, and if you have the exercise files, you can follow along.
I found his instructions very easy to follow, and the fact that it was in video form, rather than just text and pictures helped greatly.
Overall this is a great title, I just wish they would create a player so that it would be easier to control the playback of the video.
After completing this training title, I decided I should try and apply some of the skills that I learned with this title on a video clip of my own.
Late last year, I filmed a reconstruction of what the fire brigade have to go through when cutting some on eout of a car htat had been involved in a Road Traffic Accident. As you can see from the below still, we forgot to white balance ... oops...
Since this video was to be part of my Final Major Project, I knew I ws going to have to fix this, and at that point I wasn't using FCS2.
So I tried to fix it using the 3-Way Color Correction Filter in Final Cut Pro 5. As you can see from the below image, that the end end result, was okay, but I'll admit, far from perfect. But was done with colour correction skills I'd picked up from various other training titles I'd watched.
After having gone through the lynda.com training title, I decided to have another go at fixing this clip.
Using hte Auto Balance button in color, the below image is an example of what it did to correct it.
Then on another clip, I tried fixing it with the color wheels, and the below image is the end result.
I then tried fixing the clip, using the lift, gain, and gamma variable, for the RGB colors, and the below image is the end result.
I then also tried fixing the image with the curves and the image you see below is the result.
I know these are far from prefect, and while they're close to what the video was like on the second camera which was color balanced, it was the best I could do.
I am definitely going to be looking into leanring more about using Color.
Posted at 12:00AM Jul 21, 2008 by Michael Smith in General | Comments[0]
