Apple Color Training Courses

Color 101: Rookie 1
- Level: Introduction
- Duration: 2 Days
- Time: 10 AM - 5 PM
- Cost: £497 ex VAT

Color amendment can make or break your production. It is almost impossible to evade color correction in post-production, whether it is simply balancing contrast and color balance between two cameras. Learn the basics of color harmonizing and rectification, and move on to the fine points of secondary grading, including scene matching, using vignettes to isolate and track regions, creating advanced color effects and looks, skin tone modification, adjusting the composition, framing of a shot and much more with Apple Color training course at Academy Class.

The Apple Color training course at Academy Class is designed for existing Final Cut Pro users who want to learn more about the color correction and grading capabilities and would prefer hands-on and interactive instructions to learn to better navigate the Color Rooms, understand Waveform and Vectorscopes, use Trackers, color correction for contrast and brightness.

In today’s dynamic industry, editors are under amplified stress to understand grading, graphic design and sound. This course will offer an easy solution to achieve brilliantly finished images. Your Apple certified and experienced trainer will steer you through the vital tools in Apple Color for correction, improvement and stylization of images to give a professional look and feel for a range of productions.
This Apple Color training course at Academy Class will give you a hands-on guidance and will familiarize students with Apple’s Color. Color editors with an incomplete knowledge of finishing methods will have the chance to learn important skills to enhance the look and production quality of their programs. The results that can be achieved through Apple Color are astonishing, but getting there takes both technical skill and an artistic eye which this course at Academy Class will skill you in. You will learn the best workflow to preserve the highest picture quality.

Academy Class offers highest quality training to help you get going with this massively prevailing software. We offer Apple Color training courses at a number of cities across United Kingdom, namely: London and Glasgow.

At Academy Class your particular needs regarding Apple Color training courses are given special consideration making technical education an amusing experience. In addition, if you don’t get a chance to use your new found skills right away and start to forget things then we offer you free of charge retake of the sessions, within 6 months of your first day of training.

All our classes at Academy Class begin at 10 in the morning and go on till 5 in the evening. Enroll now in one of the best Apple authorized Apple Color training courses!

Working with the Color Interface
Basic Grading
Basic Secondary Grading
Advanced Secondary Grading
Grade Management
Color Effects
Common Recipes
Keyframing Effects
Recomposing and Tracking
Primary Out and Rendering

Level: Introduction 1
Time: 10 AM - 5 PM
Duration: 2 Days
Cost: £497 ex VAT

There are no open public schedule dates for this course. We can offer you a private training, live online training or we go to your location

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Working with the Color Interface

Setting Up Your Computer
Setting Up a Project
Understanding the Eight Rooms: Color’s Task-Based Workflow
Navigating Your Sequence
Exploring the Setup Room
Applying Basic Grades
Viewing Your Images
Performing Secondary Grades
Employing Color FX
Applying Final Touches
Panning and Scanning
Utilizing Still Stores
Correcting the Sequence and Introducing the Render Queue Room

Basic Grading

Exploring the Primary Room
Using the Auto Balance Control
Grading with the Color Balance Controls
Grading with Curves
Understanding Additional Controls

Basic Secondary Grading

Three Types of Secondaries
Performing Key-Based Secondaries
Keying with HSL Qualifiers
Performing Vignette-Based Secondaries
Creating a Look
Secondary Curves

Advanced Secondary Grading

Using Multiple Secondaries
Combining a Key and a Vignette
Using Multiple Keys
Creating Custom Mask Shapes
Combining Vignettes
Incorporating Curve Effects

Grade Management

Managing Grades on a Single Shot
Switching Between Grades
Adding and Deleting Grades
Duplicating a Grade
Setting the Beauty Grade
Saving Corrections and Grades
Deleting Saved Corrections
Organizing Corrections
Saving Secondary Corrections
Saving Grades
Moving Grades from Clip to Clip
Dragging Individual Corrections
Grouping Shots
Applying Grades to Groups
Working with Multiple Grades

Color Effects

Using the Color Effects Room
Applying Nodes
Building Color Effects
Controlling Node Order
Monitoring Inactive Nodes
Adding Nodes to Existing Trees
Saving and Reapplying Effects as Presets
Modifying an Applied Preset
Working with Preset Color Effect

Common Recipes

Black Hawk Down/Mogadishu Look
CSI Miami Look
Schindler’s List Look
Flashback Look
Saturated Sunrise Look
Skin Diffusion and Beauty Tricks

Keyframing Effects

Animating Effects in Color
Manipulating Keyframes
Navigating to Keyframes
Deleting Keyframes
Keyframing Other Rooms
Changing Interpolation Settings
Animating User Shapes
Adding Intermediary Keyframes
Keyframing Color Effects

Recomposing and Tracking

Using the Geometry Room
Recomposing Shots
Animating Pan and Scan Effects
Applying Tracking Data to Corrections
Offsetting the Vignette
Manual Tracking

Primary Out and Rendering

Global Changes and Final Tweaks
Modifying and Replacing Primary Out Room Settings
Creating a Stylized Look for a Finished Project
Applying Stylized Primary Out Corrections to Grouped Clips
Manually Controlling Broadcast-Safe Output
Adjusting Black Levels
Limiting the Range of Black Level Adjustments
Manually Adjusting White, Black and Chroma Levels
Rendering Color Projects
Adding Clips to the Render Queue
Rendering Shots and Sending to Final Cut Pro
Using Color’s Archive Feature

The academy class guarantee

Did you know that Academy Class is also 100% committed to ensuring you understand the concepts we teach in all our classroom-based courses and that you have met the course objectives?

We understand that you rely on us to get a good grasp the key concepts taught in our training. We also realise that if you don’t fully understand the content when you leave, the money and time you’d spend repeating the same course is a cost your business could do without.

We believe that our high-quality training courses will meet and exceed your expectations and enable you learn the concepts you need to know, first time. And we want you to be confident that we’ll support you through your learning experience by proving our commitment to delivering a high-quality & easily-understood course.

That’s why we’ve introduced the Academy Class Guarantee.

Here’s how it works

We make an upfront commitment to you that you’ll be comfortable with what you learn in our classes.

If you don’t feel that you’ve grasped the concepts and can put the training into practice, we invite you to repeat the same course within a six-month period absolutely free of charge*.

Academy Class’s Guarantee, means you can rest assured that if you’re still uncertain about what you’ve learned, you can come back free of charge* and sit the class again. It’s that simple.

*Academy Class Guarantee Terms and Conditions

Guarantee offer is only made to the original person attending a Academy Class classroom training course and is not transferable.

Attendees returning for a repeat sitting of a course must bring their original manual and materials for use on the day.

Bookings for a repeat sitting of a classroom course must be made via the Academy Class Hotline 0800 043 8889 and are subject to availability.

Guarantee offer is valid for 6 months from the date of the original classroom course, after which date it becomes null and void.

Offer is only applicable for one repeat sitting of the same course originally attended.

Cancellation of Course - Academy Class reserves the right to cancel at its sole discretion any particular course. In the event that a specific course is cancelled then participants

enrolled in that course will be transferred to the next available course and notified by Academy Class of the change.

Students should be aware that there is always a chance that they will be “bumped” into the next class if it were to fill up with paying students. Even if you are bumped, we do guarantee that you will be afforded 1 refresher of your training class.

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