GH2 GH2 users - where did you learn you color correcting?

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Fresno Bob

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Just wondering where users have learned to colour correct?

I've learned the basics from various youtube and vimeo vidoes, but I want to take it to the next step and use vignettes etc.

I'm using colorista II and the in-built Premiere tools - but am interested in Speedgrade too. My machine won't run Davinci.
 
Adobe TV offers numerous free tutorials on Premiere Pro and the entire CS6 suite:

http://tv.adobe.com/search/?q=color+correction&product_id=1&topic_id=&release_id=&t_lid=

I've tried Speedgrade and found it impractical to use in its current state of disintegration with the rest of the CS6 suite. If you use the "Send to Speedgrade" command in Premiere Pro CS6, it will stall while your entire sequence is transcoded into a massive collection of DPX file folders. Each folder contains a separate 8MB DPX file for each frame in your timeline. Not only is this intolerably time consuming and unwieldy, it forces you to use SpeedGrade for the final render of your video. And if you need to make any edits after SpeedGrading your footage? Yep, you get to transcode your entire timeline all over again for yet another SpeedGrade session.

OTOH, Color Finesse is still bundled with After Effects CS6, and I find it very useful for both technical and artistic color grading.
 
Thanks lpowell.
I did not know that about Speedgrade. That sounds unworkable.

I have a subscription to Lynda.com, but they only cover colour correction in Adobe Premiere (and probably Final Cut which I don't use).
 
I may be a little confused about the question, but color correcting and, more importantly to artistic looks, grading are really just about actively doing it.


Any time I work with color I always try to correct first and then grade. Meaning I try to get everything to look roughly the same from shot to shot, and then I will add the artistic style with the grade. It will take a while for you to figure out your “style” but once you do you will probably be able to do a lot of grading with custom presets that you create. At least I do.


As far as your question about how to use vignettes, it's just as simple as using another iteration of your color correction effect and then applying a mask with a long feather. Honestly, when you get into grading you'll probably find yourself using several effects stacked on top of each other.
 
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