Avid Color Correction Training
Who should take this course?
This course is an intensive workshop that covers the Avid Color correction tool within the Avid Media Composer software family.
This course is designed for the intermediate user who has taken Avid 101 or 119 (editing), and Avid 110 or 129 (effects). It is also designed for an individual who has equivalent experience to what would be learned in those classes. This course will take you through the basics of using the Avid Color correction tools, and then progress into more advanced techniques.
Where is the training course? GeniusDV has two options for you:
We can provide certified on-site training at your location (home or business). This provides us with an opportunity to customize the course exactly to your workflow. For this option, we don't charge per student. It's one flat fee. (no hidden costs). This course takes 3 days in an on-site environment, and we are flexible in scheduling the time-frame.
Or, GeniusDV has a luxurious classroom in Orlando, FL. In Orlando, we limit enrollment to the first 5 students. This allows us to maintain a hands-on training environment with a small class size. This course takes 5 days in a classroom environment.
What will you learn in this course?
Avid Color Correction Outline
Our courses are hands on, and are limited to 6 students. Course is customized based on the needs of individual students. A typical schedule looks like this:
Introduction to Avid's color correction tool - Module 1
- Learn the basic stages of color correction workflow
- How to set up a color correction environment
- Analyze footage for luminance and color problems
- How to restore the original look of a scene
- Achieving shot-to-shot consistency
- Using a broadcast monitor with software only editing systems
- Working with color correction groups
- Using HSL Groups
- Using Color Correction Curves
- Navigating segments in the monitors
- Configuring the monitor display
- How to properly analyze footage using the monitor display controls
Working with video scopes - Module 3
- Learn the differences between external and internal scopes
- Learn the four major scope displays (y waveform, RGB parade, vectorscope, and YC waveform)
- Use scopes to analyze luminance and chrominance values of an image
- Identifying problems in your source footage (particularly DV) video.
- Explanation of C-waveform
- How to use Quad Display
- Typical characteristics of DV footage
Basic color correction - Module 3
- Use HSL mode to perform basic color correction
- Correcting tonal ranges
- Neutralizing color casts
- Using buckets to create color correction templates
- Automatic versus manual color corrections
- Using hue offsets tab
- Setting up black and white points
- Adjusting gamma
- Correcting color casts using chromawheel controls
- How to neutralize color
- Getting RGB information using the color match control functions
- Neutralizing gamma
- Using color correction effect templates
- Rendering multiple color correction effects
- Using expert render
Using curves and color match - Module 4
- Using the color correction curves group
- Making corrections in the master curve
- Using the color match controls
- Selecting specific colors using eyedropper tool
- Using natural match function
- Saving custom color to a bin
- Using color match in the curves group
- Making adjustments in multiple color correction groups
Using automatic color correction - Module 5
- Adjusting contract and balance automatically
- Removing a color cast automatically
- Performing automatic color corrections from the effect palette
- How to select autocorrect options
- Autocorrecting an entire sequence
Color correction workflow - Module 6
- Using safe color warnings
- Bringing RGB values within safe limits
- Bringing Composite levels within safe limits
- Color correcting similar shots on a tape
- Achieving shot-to-shot consistency
- Adjusting an entire sequence
- How to create a stylized look
- Altering a scene's color temperature
- Creating a pastel palette
- Blowing out the whites
- Creating more of a film look
- Creating a sepia look
- Creating a ghost image
