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Reader Comments (7)

Steve over at RippleTraining.com is also prepping an updated color correction DVD that features COLOR. I have his Color Correction for FCP DVD and it was excellent. He said it is produced as we speak but didn't have a release date as of yet.

I'm glad we're going to have some training for Color. I would think that someone would coax JL Cooper to produce one that features their Control Surface for tactile color grading.

Keith
Dallas, TX

May 31, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

Learning Color is the easy past. Learning to be a good colourist is the difficult part.

Does anyone know of any books an aspiring colourist could read to begin to learn the art?

Steve

June 1, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterSteve

FCP studio 2 is shipping - pickup up a couple of copies today at the local apple store.

June 1, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

I have to agree I also have the Ripple Training and it is really excellent...very solid groudn rules and principles how to managa the basic color corrections...hope to see a good update pretty soon...because I will be installing color already in a couple of days...

cckid
www.honeymoonthemovie.net

June 2, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

I saw the Apple Demo of Final Cut Studio in New York the other day. It was a little PT Barnum but impressive nonetheless. The primary interface in based on Final Cut's "Three-Way Color Corrector," and it is furnished with the usual roster of presets galore, so it is absolutely geared to editors looking to get the job done by themselves in a way they are familiar. I was unsure what sort of tools there were available to match color across shots... this may just require the eye of a good colorist.

June 7, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

Steve,
You can try this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Its-Purple-Someones-Gonna-Die/dp/0240806883/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5629810-1688045?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181284739&sr=8-1" REL="nofollow">If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die: The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling

June 7, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterRobby

Steve, You're absolutely wrong.

Learning to be a pro-colorist was the easy part while walking through the minefield that was Final Touch.

If you have any eye whatsoever for photography and spend thirty minutes with a pro giving you tips you understand coloring. It's not that hard.

The Hard part is client relations while you explain to them why you don't have sound, aren't able to to watch in real time, spend time rendering etc...

July 11, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterJoseph Mastantuono
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