Anyone can recommend me a good reading/tutorial about color correction and color grading?

[John Mayer]

Beside, I think I am going to need more reading materials than quick tips in order to neutralize a clip. The 3 points above you mentions are great start, but I still have many question about those settings like why those IRE settings. Need more tips to adjust white balance, I don’t feel I am doing right just by clicking the white part with the eyedropper, it give me so many different results each clicks. And I don’t understand point #3.

I’ve been watching this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JZlVS9hM6M which give great tips too but I’m still very confused about particular situations where there’s generally no tutorial to teach you right. Like what do you do when there’s crowds with many skin colors differences, what to do in evening and night etc…

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[Chris Wright]

again, for white balance, Watch the HLS vectorscope so that the large Hue wheel sets the weighted brightest part in the center. it is dead accurate. what more could you want?

the skin tone line should work for ALL skin tones. read more about that if you don’t believe me.
evening and night will NOT match day because of the “quality” of light. look up day for night for more info.

[John Mayer]

Sorry I didn’t mean to upset you, I just don’t know what you mean. I have tried what you suggest but I cannot make out what I am suppose to do.

[Chris Wright]

Since you want to get to the professional level, read every article, watch every video. Have fun!

https://library.creativecow.net/tutorials/adobepremierepro
https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/
https://mixinglight.com/
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro.html

[John Mayer]

I guess we’re no longer in the same page. Thanks for the first post thought, it was going in the right direction.

[Scott Tiner]

JonZ, in addition to watching tutorials it’s helpful if you can practice using example files on a tutorial Website like Lynda.com. I just finished doing a tutorial about color correction by Ashley Kennedy. She does a great job. You can sign up for $25 per month and just watch the tutorials (no practice files) or sign up for $35 and have access to the example files. (I have no connection with Lynda.com or LinkedIn.) It would be worth it even if you can only afford to have an account for one month.

Introduction to Video Color Correction
https://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/Introduction-Video-Color-Correction/179053-2.html
(The course focuses on using the toolset in PPro, but also addresses workflows in Avid and FCPX.)

Thanks for the link to the tutorial about color correction in Premiere Pro by Channing Lowe (‘chinfat’ on YouTube). In this video he covers a lot of ground quickly, so for me at this point, it was an ideal refresher because I just finished the very detailed instruction videos on Lynda.com. His LinkedIn profile says he’s an instructor at Salt Lake Community College. I can see why — he’s a good teacher.

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 on Windows

[John Mayer]

Thanks! this is the kind of learning stuffs I’m after 🙂 Sounds like you learned good from this. The preview looks promising. Does it have exercise implying complex situation (the kind that make the vector scopes going in every directions, or containing many different cultural skinned people for example)?

Regardless, it look to be a great class, and like you said, very well worth it. Looking at it now.

Thanks !

[Scott Tiner]

[JonZ MarZ] “The preview looks promising. Does it have exercise implying complex situation (the kind that make the vector scopes going in every directions, or containing many different cultural skinned people for example)?”

The tutorial doesn’t contain an exercise like this, but it shows you how to perform a secondary color correction on a clip. I’m new to color work, too, but I’m pretty sure this will solve your problem.

Secondary color correction is where you tell PPro to apply a color effect to a given color range so you can operate separately on areas of the image. Here are two tutorials (one is here on CreativeCow):

https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Color-Correction-4_Secondary-Colour-Correction/1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MhJYKATQEU

I edit with Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 on Windows

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[Scott Tiner]

I just noticed that in the Andrew Devis tutorial he’s using PPro CS 6.0, so it might confuse you to watch it since you’re on CC 2015.

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 on Windows

[John Mayer]

Indeed I’m on 2015. There’s lack of documentation about the changes from the old vectors scopes and the new one I can’t grasp. There was a IRE 7.5 switch on the older one that doesn’t show in the new one. So I’m confused if I need to manually set my darker points to approximately 7.5 or just line up near 0.

Things like that.