Izzy Video 105 - Color Grading Workflow In-Depth

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Izzy Video 105 - Color Grading Workflow In-Depth

By | October 19, 2008

This week’s video tutorial is on the subject of color grading. Specifically, you get to see my entire workflow as I grade a casual video clip in Apple’s Color. Don’t worry about the specific application, though. Many of the concepts in this video should be universal among most color grading tools.

Some of the topics I cover are:

Principles of Cropping
Waveform Monitors
Vectorscopes
Primary and Secondary Color Grades
HSL Keys
Vignettes

This might be one of the single most educational episodes I’ve made so far. It certainly strays from the short, focused structure I typically use — it’s more than 20 minutes long. But I still tried to make sure it was packed with good, useful information.

And to top it all off, I’m releasing it under a Creative Commons License, so you can pass it around and share it as much as you would like.

You can get Izzy Video 105 here.

Because it’s a screencast, it only seems appropriate that I should also release it in a higher resolution to make the screen easier to see.

By the way, both of these are huge downloads, but I didn’t want to compromise too much on the picture quality, so I settled for big file sizes.

In Other News

I created a few buttons and badges (and the appropriate code) for you to post on a website, social network page, or whatever. For those of you who are fans of Izzy Video, please feel free to post them anywhere you would like. Here are some samples: