Color Correction for Video, Second
Edition: Using Desktop Tools to
Perfect Your Image (DV Expert
Series) by Jaime Fowler President of
Digital Media Education Center
Excellent Book On The Technical Details Of Color Correction
Use color to improve your storytelling, deliver critical emotional cues, and
add impact to you videos. This book shows you how to analyze color
correction problems and solve them- whatever NLE or plugin you use.
Experienced editors and colorists in their own right, the authors also
include the wisdom of top colorists, directors of photography, and color

scientists to deliver this insightful and authoritative presentation of the
theory and practice of color correction.
The book provides technical insight into how to effectively color correct
your video, also delving into how color can impact storytelling and deliver
critical emotional cues. The new edition also includes 2 new Quickstart
Tutorials, a new chapter on how color impacts storytelling, information on
the impact HD has had on the correcting process, and updated application
specifications. The companion DVD features new and more robust tutorial
media.
* Application agnostic, step-by-step instruction for an array of color
correcting concepts and solutions
* Effectively use color to improve your storytelling, deliver critical emotional
cues, and add overall impact to your media
* Companion DVD contains tutorial media for hands-on exercises
Personal Review: Color Correction for Video, Second Edition:
Using Desktop Tools to Perfect Your Image (DV Expert Series)
by Jaime Fowler President of Digital Media Education Center
For most of us who dabble in video, which probably covers 98% of those
producing video, this book is informative, but constitutes massive overkill.
We're simply not going to spend the money or the time with color
correction, beyond whatever primitive capabilities are supplied in our video
editing program(s) of choice. YouTube and other popular video outlets
have increased tolerance for what would have been previously denigrated
as amateurish quality and reduced audience demand for on-the-money
color correction.
Besides, the authors cover the more expensive video editing suites like
Final Cut Pro and After Effects. They also recommends you use a
waveform monitor, a gadget that can set you back several thousand
dollars.

Finally, color correction requires time, something most people putting
some video together don't want to spend.
But for the 2% who really want to turn out a perfect video, with colors that
spread the tonal range and are balanced, this is the book. It is a tutorial,
essentially, that takes you step by step down the road of color correction,
beginning with setting up your color reference levels which takes 30 pages
to describe!
Next come 16 pages on setting up and calibrating your monitor. There
are also a couple of illustrations of pro video color correction workstations
that will make you realize that you probably don't have enough money to
equip yourself well.
Now we have 43 pages on using your scope - that umpteen thousand
dollar scope - well. Scopes are also emulated in many video software
editing packages. I've had some experience using scopes for this purpose
and can tell you that this chapter is terrific, packed with the lots of very
useful information.
Chapters 4 through 8 are the real meat of the book: the actual "how to do
it" of color correction. It is interesting, but it will also show why only existing
pros and those who want to be colorists or serious filmmakers do this. It is
a lot of work, takes lots of time and, as the author so aptly sums it up, it is
a skill that must be practiced. In short, most of us are simply not going to
do this often and if we do, we'll be relearning it every time.
But pros and those who want to become pros will find the information
presented in these tutorials invaluable. The accompanying DVD is
essential.
Finally, the author provide an interesting chapter on the history and role
of the colorist which was fascinating to me. Color correction for video is a
very recent phenomena and the transition from color corrector to colorist is
quite interesting. A chapter on vision and color therapy rounds out the
book.
Again, this book is not for amateurs, other than those like me who enjoy
learning about all facets of a technology even though I know I will never
have practical application for the knowledge. The authors close with an
overview of popular higher-end editing packages and describing their color
correction capabilities. I learned things about my software that I never
knew before.
Aspiring video professionals will find the book and its extremely well done
tutorials very worthwhile and they are the audience the authors are talking
to. The rest of us can just drool with envy at the editing suites pictured
here.

Jerry
For More 5 Star Customer Reviews and Lowest Price:
Color Correction for Video, Second Edition: Using Desktop Tools to Perfect Your Image
(DV Expert Series) by Jaime Fowler President of Digital Media Education Center 5 Star
Customer Reviews and Lowest Price!