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Recommendations for Professional PPro Based Color Correction Training
I’m wondering if people could give me some advice, recommending some on-line or computer based Premiere Pro CS 5 or 5.5 color correction and grading techniques. I’m a convert from FCP to Premiere Pro for about a year now, and every time I need to color correct or grade, I feel a bit lost. I find that the techniques for example, using the YV scopes, I used which I think are analogous to FCP don’t produce good results. I find, for example that it seems really easy to create ‘banding’ in Premiere Pro vs FCP, for example while using the 3 way color corrector and treating highlights, midtones, and shadows to get a good luminosity range. If I back off to avoid the banding I don’t get what I think are good results that easily.
Optimally, I’d like to use the CUDA accelerated color tools to correct footage, only resorting to the other ones, such as the auto-correct ones, if I have to.
I was pretty good with FCP color correction or grading, not necessarily because the tools were better but there was so much great training I found from great sources, such as Larry Jordan and Lynda.com, that walked through problem footage and systematically how to correct it. It could be me, but Lynda.com (to which I have a subscription) and the free sources are ok, but I kind of feel like they aren’t systematic enough or use scopes much, it’s more like, “well try this, then if that doesn’t work try this.”
I have Colorista II but haven’t yet used it, I would prefer to use the native tools if all possible, but I may have to try Colorista II out.
Anyway, any pointers to what might help, free or paid, is much appreciated. Thanks much!
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Karl Soule and Andrew Devis (here on the COW) have some good materials. I collected links to their color correction/grading tutorials here.
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