Color Correction Handbook: Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema

The colorist working in film and video is the individual responsible for breathing life into characters, bringing a mood into a scene, and making the final product polished and professional-looking. This craft is an art form that often takes years to perfect and many trial-and-error attempts at gett...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Van Hurkman, Alexis Author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] Peachpit Press 2010
Edición:1st edition
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Table Of Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Setting Up A Color Correction Environment
  • Choosing a Display
  • Setting Up a Color Correction Suite
  • Configuring a Grading Theater
  • Other Hardware for Color Correction
  • 2 Primary Contrast Adjustments
  • How We See Color
  • Luminance and Luma
  • What Is Contrast?
  • Evaluating Contrast Using Video Scopes
  • Controls to Adjust Contrast
  • Expanding Contrast
  • Compressing Contrast
  • Y'Cbcr Luma Adjustments Vs. Rgb Luma Adjustments
  • Redistributing Midtone Contrast
  • Setting Appropriate Highlights and Shadows
  • Contrast and Perception
  • Contrast During Exhibition
  • Dealing With Underexposure
  • Dealing With Overexposure
  • 3 Primary Color Adjustments
  • Color Temperature
  • What Is Chroma?
  • Analyzing Color Balance
  • Using Color Balance Controls
  • Color Temperature Controls
  • Using Color Curves
  • Saturation Adjustments
  • Understanding and Controlling Color Contrast
  • 4 Hsl Qualification And Hue Curves
  • Hsl Qualification in Theory
  • Individual Qualifier Controls
  • A Basic Hsl Qualification Workflow
  • Tips for Using and Optimizing Hsl Qualifications
  • Different Ways of Using Hsl Qualifiers
  • Hue Curve Adjustments
  • Other Types of Hsl Adjustments
  • 5 Shapes
  • Shape Ui and Controls
  • Highlighting Subjects
  • Creating Depth
  • Shapes + Hsl Qualifiers
  • Aggressive Digital Relighting
  • Shapes and Motion
  • 6 Animating Grades
  • Grade Animation Controls Compared
  • Correcting Changes in Exposure
  • Correcting Hue Shifts
  • Grade Transitions Using Through Edits and Dissolves
  • Artificial Lighting Changes
  • Creative Grade Animation
  • 7 Memory Colors: Skin Tone, Skies, And Foliage
  • What Are Memory Colors?
  • Ideals for Skin Tone
  • Techniques for Adjusting Complexion Using Secondaries
  • Ideals for Skies
  • Techniques for Adjusting Skies
  • Ideals for Foliage.
  • 8 Shot Matching And Scene Balancing
  • Color Timing
  • Strategies for Working With Clients
  • How to Begin Balancing a Scene
  • How to Match One Shot to Another
  • Recycling Grades
  • Scene Matching in Action
  • 9 Quality Control And Broadcast Safe
  • Quality Control Issues That Affect Colorists
  • Video Signal Standards and Limits
  • Six Structured Steps to Legalizing Your Picture
  • Monitoring and Legalizing Saturation in Detail
  • Rgb Color Space Legality and the Rgb Parade Scope
  • Other Video Scope Options for Broadcast Gamut Monitoring
  • Creating Graphics and Animation With Legal Values
  • 10 Creative Techniques
  • Bleach Bypass Looks
  • Blue-Green Swap
  • Blurred and Colored Vignettes
  • Color Undertones
  • Cross-Processing Simulation
  • Day-for-Night Treatments
  • Duotones and Tritones
  • Flashing
  • Flattened Cartoon Color
  • Glows, Blooms, and Gauze Looks
  • Monitor and Phone Glow
  • Sharpening
  • Tints and Color Washes
  • Vintage Film
  • Index
  • Bonus Content for Chapter 9
  • Bonus Content for Chapter 10.