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color correction resources sought
hello–
Color correcting my first HD project shot on the Sony XDCAM EX1. 720/24p. Its a short; final TRT is about 6min15 sec.
Looking for advice and information (links, your reply) regarding using FCP’s color correction monitors (wave form, vectorscope, histogram, etc…) as I haven’t used them in the past on other projects and thinking it might be a good idea to read up on them for this one.
In the past SDV projects I did I merely made sure I didn’t have any exclamation points (i.e. the excess luma) and that the clips were broadcast safe. I’m fairly convinced that HD is a different beast and would likely require I pay attention to some of these monitoring tools.
I’ve been editing picture and sound at home but will be taking my drive to school to color correct (theres an HDMI connected monitor there and though not ideal, I’m thinking I’ll get “truer” color than my basic LCD monitor connected to my Mac Pro at home)
Any links or info regarding these monitoring tools? Am I worrying too much about this? Thank you for your help and advice!
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2 Replies
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Type “Video Scopes” in the search box of the FCP manual found in the help menu. Good place to start…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
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Color’s manual also includes a lot of information about using video scopes. Color will do a much nicer job of it all BTW…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO, CD’s
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