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Apple Color 101: An Introduction to Color

Apple Color 101 is a three-day hands-on class room training course designed to familiarise students with Apple's masterful new color grading and finishing software. part of the Final Cut Studio collection, Color 101 is a course that has been created by Apple to gain an industry regognised certifiacation in Apple Color. The class will start with the basics of color balancing and correction ; and move on to train on the fine points of secondary grading ; including scene matching ; using vignettes to isolate and track regions ; creating advanced color effects and looks ; skin tone adjustments ; adjusting the composition and framing of a shot ; and much more.

Pre-Requisites: A basic understanding of Mac OS X and a good understanding of Final Cut Pro. Students should ideally have attended at least FCP 101: An Introduction to Final Cut Pro.

What You Will Learn: How to successfully use Apple Color for grading. This certification also counts towards the new Final Cut Studio (FCS) Master Pro certification. FCS Master certification recognises a Certified Pro's skills with the entire Final Cut Studio product suite.

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Topics	Description
Setting Up a Project and Navigating the Color Rooms	Setting up ; Primary In ; Secondary Rooms ; Color FX ; Primary Out ; Geometry ; Still Store ; Final Print ; Transferring Final Cut Pro Projects to Color ; Standard-definition and High-definition Formats ; l Frame Rates ; Project Frame Sizes ; Broadcast Safe Settings ; and Preventing Illegal Video Signals.
Making Basic Adjustments	Understanding Scopes ; Adjusting Contrast ; Primary Color Balancing ; Defining ; Lift ; Gain and Gamma ; Hue Controls and Correction ; Saturation Controls and Correction.
Creating and Recalling Grades: Advanced Primary Correction	Switching between Grade Banks ; Dragging and Dropping Grades ; Grouping Shots and Grading Groups ; Checking Continuity and Still Store Bin.
Basic Secondary Correction	Using Hue ; Saturation and Luma Curves ; Using the Eyedropper ; Keying ; Using HSL Selectors ; and Fixing Skin Tones.
Using Vignettes: Secondary Correction	Using Vignettes to Isolate Regions ; Inside and Outside Vignettes ; Tracking Vignettes to Points ; Keyframing -Secondary Controls ; Using Multiple VIgnettes to Achieve a Grade and Relighting.
Applying Effects and Creating Looks: Color FX Room	Commonly Used Grade Effects ; Presets ; Using Nodes ; Day for Night ; Bleach Bypass ; Dream Sequence ; Edge Vignette ; Creating a Film Look ; Using Old or Damaged Film-Vintage Effect ; Saving and Recalling your Favourite Effect.
Recompositing the Shot and Making Final Adjustments	Panning and Scanning ; Using Keyframes ; Repositioning the Frame ; creating Custom-Shaped Vignettes ; Clipping Saturation and RGB and Final Adjustments and Corrections.
Tracking in the Geometry Room	Using Trackers ; Advanced Tracking Techniques ; Applying Trackers to Vignettes and Shapes.
Rendering, Exporting and Archiving	Shots to Render Queue ; Print Options ; Final Gather Options ; Exporting JPEGs ; and Exporting