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In this guide to Apple’s masterful new color grading and finishing application, award-winning colorist David Gross starts with the basics of color balancing and correction and move on to the fine points of secondary grading. Topics include scene matching, using vignettes to isolate and track regions, creating advanced color effects and “looks,” skin tone adjustments, and adjusting the composition and framing of a shot. As with the other titles in the Apple Pro Training Series, each chapter in this Apple-authorized guide represents a complete lesson--with a project to complete and a review section to reinforce the lessons. Superb footage, including several BBC productions and broadcast commercials, provide real-world examples for you to work through as you master this revolutionary software.
Book News Annotation:
This book/DVD tutorial provides lessons in Apple's new color grading
software, for Final Cut experts and newcomers alike. The book is
designed to improve readers' skills as colorists and as operators of
the software. Each self-contained lesson builds on the last to guide
readers through the program's functions and capabilities, and
includes a review and color screen shots. The book is organized to
follow the software's workflow model through Final Cut's eight
different "rooms," with details on how to use the many controls in
each room and which tools and techniques to apply given the specific
shots and circumstances of a particular project. The companion DVD
contains project files and video content for each exercise. Readers
should have a working knowledge of the Mac OS X operating system.
Wohl has been an independent filmmaker for 15 years. Co-author David
Gross is a film colorist and editor at Fox Studios in Australia.
Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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