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[Patrick Inhofer]

[Sascha Engel] “Did actually somebody do the Tao of Colour training?
I really like those guys work and wonder if the training is as good as their film work?”

Well, we do offer a 60-day no-questions-asked refund should you decide you don’t like the Tao training. Pretty much no-risk.

I’ve had plenty of members remark to me who have taken the training from Alexis, Warren and myself that they learned something new from each of us – and rather than completely duplicative they feel like they walked away from three different colorists approaching the same app with their unique perspectives and emphasis on what they teach.

And that, to me, is the coolest thing of all.

Patrick Inhofer
Colorist / Finisher, Fini, nyc
Founder, Tao Of Color.com
Co-Founder, MixingLight.com

[Kevin Rag]

I’ve attended a 3 day Resolve workshop taught by Warren Eagles. It was amazing. He makes it very simple. It’s definitely worth the money mate. Go for it:)

Kannan Raghavan
The Big Toad Films Pte. Ltd.

[Sascha Engel]

A little tip for fast tutorial inputting (Matrix Style ;-):
For me, most tutorial narrators speak waaaaay to slow and it takes ages.
hard to cop with for somebody hyperactive.
My solution: Open the Tuts in QT Player and set the playback speed to 1,5x – it still fully understandable, but cuts down the time tremendously. 🙂

Greetz,

Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang

[Steve Doubledark]

I’ll resurrect this thread rather than start a new one on the same topic

Two issues I have with most tutorials, is
a) the presenter skips small, seemingly to them, insignificant steps. This causes frustration with the learning process.
b) hours of “you do this here and you do this here” style teaching. A far better way would be (in the case of Resolve) to use a real project and show in detail the workflow.

If you’re an educator, then someone who has teaching skills, should be able to take your notes and teach from those notes.

So, with that in mind; do any of the courses mentioned use this approach ?

[Sascha Engel]

Good point. As far as I know, not. Unfortunately.

Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang

[Steve Doubledark]

I found this on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orHxxptz2yI

There are 7(?) videos in the series and it shows video editing in PremierePro, audio editing in another app and finally in episode 5 he moves to resolve. Now, the first few episodes are way too long so I skipped through them fairly quickly, but it is at least a real life project that the author is working on.

If only the RippleTraining/Lynda/Colorist Flight School people would structure their videos with a small, not too complicated real-life project to demonstrate how Resolve works. Then, bring in the more in-depth explanations and again do it by showing real-life examples rather than feeding dry “to achieve this, you do this” information.

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[Ryan Holmes]

[Steve Doubledark] “Then, bring in the more in-depth explanations and again do it by showing real-life examples rather than feeding dry “to achieve this, you do this” information.”

Steve, I’m sympathetic to the “simplest approach” idea, but you have to realize that color correction is very difficult. Any are where a person can specialize is never a simple field! 🙂 DaVinci is a highly complex software and the training listed above is actually a highly simplified form already. Ripple, Lynda, Tao of Color, fxphd, etc. are all highly knowledgable places to start your learning. No one solution will teach you everything you need or want to know. It takes years to learn all the different ways of doing things. I’ve been working as a colorist for almost 8 years now and there’s still new tricks I learn…sometimes from the above mentioned training.

Many of the above listed solutions will let you download footage and do a “grade along” as you learn. It just takes time to learn and practice. And you can always learn a lot by taking your own footage and practicing on that. It will make you a better cameraman when you start to learn how the footage works within the computer.

Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.me
@CutColorPost

[Steve Doubledark]

Hi Ryan

I agree that colour grading is a very involved speciality. And because it’s so complicated, the tutor needs to start with the assumption that the student knows nothing other than that they need to colour grade some footage.

Having just watched the Youtube videos by MiesnerMedia, I now have a feel for how the process works. Now I’m ready to learn more details. And, for me, a good way would be to work thru a more involved grade where more features are explored. But the features need a reason to be used, rather than a dry explanation.

When I was a kid, a great scientist named Professor Julius Sumner Miller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Sumner_Miller) had a TV program and his catch phrase was “why is it so”. It explained science through demonstrating the science, rather than scribbling formulas on a blackboard.