During this two day course you will learn colour correcting and how to grade 

HD video footage with Final Cut Pro and Color.  You will look at specific workflows 

which help to speed up your work as well as improvements achievable with 

Red Giant Software’s Magic Bullet Suite of plug-ins.

 

Simon will combine training in colour theory with technical methods for 

applying primary and secondary grades, which will help you identify how 

to treat clips to convey a variety of moods to the audience, and how to add 

emotional impact to shots. This is a hands-on practical course, with time 

to practice grading techniques.

 

You will explore workflows for FCP and Color and get practical advice for 

shooting with the grade in mind, strategies for colour correcting, 

technical advice regarding when to use Color and when to use FCP, 

as well as providing creative recipes for popular looks and grades. 

 

Simon will also be comparing grading techniques in Color with the

professional keying and masking capabilities of Colorista II, investigating 

time-saving slider-based grading with Mojo, exploring the tools and presets 

in Magic Bullet Looks, and showing how these plug-ins can work together to 

making grading more interactive and efficient on the Final Cut Pro timeline.

 

Day One (FCP & Color)

• Colour theory: how our eyes see detail and colour, and how it 

  affects grading

• FCP: sequence set-up, colour correction filters in Final Cut

• Color: workflow, set-up, approaching a grade, primary corrections

• Color: secondary corrections, using keys and vignettes

• Color: creating custom masks and tracking footage

• Color: applying looks and styles in the FX Room

• Color: rendering, roundtripping, sending clips back to FCP

 

Day Two (Magic Bullet Suite)

• Colorista II: primary and secondary corrections, keying and 

  power masks

• Mojo: applying popular film looks, keeping skin tones accurate

• Magic Bullet Looks: using the tools, applying looks, 

  setting up presets, 

• Denoiser, Grinder: strategies for increasing quality and reducing 

  rendering times

 

This course is for people who want to: 

• develop skills in colour correcting and grading in Final Cut Studio

• identify which controls to use to adjust different areas and 

  colours in an image

• increase the visual quality of highly compressed footage

• apply film-like treatments to footage shot on popular formats 

  (HD SLR, XD CAM)

 

Simon Walker is an Apple Certified Final Cut Studio Master Trainer, and

trains industry professionals in editing, motion graphics, colour grading,

audio sweetening, DVD and Blu-ray authoring and video compression.