Apple Color Tutorial: Final Touch Visuals Color Correction Demo Reel

[oxfordproduction]

That is amazing! I know FCP but have never stepped into color in depth wow!

[huggeebear]

@oxfordproduction Well, here's your chance to go for it! check my other comments for learning resources. It's software, you can't break anything :)

[FireChestProductions]

Hello, Just wondering if you know if 'Apple Color' is now included within the program of 'Final Cut Pro X'? eg; the tools etc. Thx

[huggeebear]

@FireChestProductions No, Color is not rolled into FCPX, but is more like a waaay better implementation of the CC tools in FCP 7. There's a fantastic introductory tutorial by "Colorgradingcentral" on Vimeo. Check it out!

[thebirchmanste]

Love the video , just wondering what the song used is?

[huggeebear]

@thebirchmanste It's 'Choke' by the British band 'Hybrid'. Their albums are great. Check 'em out.

[thebirchmanste]

@huggeebear Excellent, thank you, once again , great work with the video!

[holyapple98]

@huggeebear Where would be the best place to start learning colour? Im quite experienced with fcp and would like to get into colour :)

[huggeebear]

@holyapple98 Well, for free, there's "CCP Episode 001: Intro to Color" on Vimeo, search"Color Primary video tutorial" on provideocoalition, Apple Color Tutorials on Creativecow PAID = Alexis Van Hurkman’s Encyclopedia of Color Correction as well as Color’s PDF Manual for Color which he also wrote. He also has a brand new Color Correction book out. Steve Hullfish’s “Art & Technique of Color Correction” Ripple Training’s Color DVD, Class on Demand Color DVD Curious Turtle's DVD

[holyapple98]

@huggeebear Thanks :) Your work is amazing by the way. :)

[huggeebear]

Just to let all of you know, the terrifc 'studio006' podcast is back under a new name called 'cut|color|post|' on vimeo

It's an introductory SERIES to learning Apple Color.

just search for "CCP Episode 001: Intro to Color" on Vimeo!

[JMaya210Films]

crazy cc. great



[huggeebear]

@JMaya210Films Thanks man, hope you're inspired to go out there and learn it :)

[pagelynch]

Hey there, friend. I love your demo. I use my YouTube to experiment with new grading styles a lot so, I don't really have much for showing my real skill in it. lol On the professional/client side of life, I was wondering if you've used Color in a Premiere Pro workflow for anyone? Reason being, I use Color, but they'll use Premiere to do native h.264 from dslr, but it wants to break down so easy in grading. Prores 422 just pushes further in my experience. How would you handle that? I'm stumped.

[huggeebear]

@pagelynch Hi, Premire has FCP XML so you could go that route. Google "Exchange between Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro CS5" there's a Dutch guy has a tutorial. Could prolly use Premiere >> AE >> FCP via the now free automatic duck plugins. Also, Color will accept an h.264 timeline from FCP. consider h.264 as the camera negative. You can grade that then spit out a proRes render. Just dont expect the h.264 to playback nice in FCP before sending it to Color but it will grade just fine.

[pagelynch]

@huggeebear I'll do some testing. Thanks for the detailed reply!

[EGOSWORLD1]

@huggeebear....How do you "Layer Up" Do you do multiple layers in  COLOR and send them over to FCP then adjust those layers or is there a way to see Layers on Layers or duplicate layers in COLOR? I am teaching myself COLOR right now.

[huggeebear]

@EGOSWORLD1 Hey man, I use secondaries as my different 'layers'. Typically contrast-only adjustments in Primary In, then colour and relighting in secondaries using keys and vignettes, a teensy bit of sharpening in colour fx then maybe a stylised curve or two and saturation boost in Primary Out. But it all depends on the shot. A lot of times just primaries in and or out are sufficient.

[EGOSWORLD1]

@huggeebear Hey thanks for the reply I'm gonna review your notes and practice as we speak! LOL

[SN0WSTR0NG]

Where did you learn to do this? Or did you just experiment with color until you learned how?

[huggeebear]

@SN0WSTR0NG I just learned by reading and doing. I read the colour correction books on FCP that you get from peachpit, the common factor among those being chapters by Alexis Van Hurkman. I also downloaded the studio 006 podcast from iTunes. I practiced on whatever footage I could gather from around the net, I enrolled at fxphd, and just practiced on many different press stills you can get from movie studio's press sites. There weren't courses back then but now there's loads out there. Practice !

[TravelingCircusVids]

great reel...but this is not a tutorial. Thanks but no thanks.

[huggeebear]

@TravelingCircusVids Your'e welcome!

[pascalaka]

Somebody help. I need to know how to effectively soften skin tones in Apple Color and FCP, thank you. 

[huggeebear]

search for "FX Room: Vignette's & Blurs w/ keyframes?" on creative cow

[qpstrafe]

This is absolutely stunning.

[huggeebear]

It's "Choke" by Hybrid.

[fcbib]

Nice! What's the background music?

[huggeebear]

No filters, just layering up of contrast and color. It's about as manual as you get. I don't really use the colofx room as it's quite hard to understand. Nodes confuse me :)

[xxbluejay21]

What are the steps/filters you do???

[dmitriypopov]

I had been editing in FCP7 for a while and color correct, and cheated, with mojo, today I finally started using color, and this demo reel really inspire me on the possibility that this powerful tool can provide in post! Superb, superb grading man!

[MrPrzemyslawFik]

Cool! Very good job!!!

[Mahaveer888]

awesome.... great color correction..... i have inspire to learn again

[zealWarcraftmovies]

amazing.

[huggeebear]

@zealWarcraftmovies Thanks man, hope you're inspired.

[zealWarcraftmovies]

@huggeebear Inspired yes, but still don't know how to do it, think ill stick with after effects's color correction xD

[SN0WSTR0NG]

Is there any way you could get out a tutorial on this stuff? You do a really amazing job.

[huggeebear]

@SN0WSTR0NG I dunno, everything's so shot specific, what would you be thinking of?

[SN0WSTR0NG]

@huggeebear Well just pick any one of these shots really, your favorite one out of the lot, and show us what you did with the color wheels and what not.

[ferr17]

@huggeebear how about a breakdown tutorial on 0:54 ? its amazing how you make the flat footage and give it some life. How do you separate the person from the background and from flat to sharp at 0:40

[burgitablogs]

This is really cool. Great job!

[huggeebear]

@burgitablogs Thanks man