The Color Correction Coach

Organized Workflows for Color Grading Confidently and Profitably

Patrick Inhofer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

496 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-66723-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In The Color Correction Coach: Organized Workflows for Color Grading Confidently and Profitably, veteran colorist Patrick Inhofer presents postproduction professionals and students with complete, repeatable processes for color correcting moving images. Featuring techniques performed in a variety of color correction software applications, this book provides skills and workflows that any aspiring colorist, editor, independent filmmaker, or motion graphics artist requires to master primary and secondary corrections, reference monitors, scopes, contrast, saturation, shot matching, controlling the eye, client relations, budgeting, and much more. A robust companion website features source footage that readers can download and edit, video webinars and tutorials, and instructor resources.

Autor

Patrick Inhofer is a professional colorist, finisher, and owner of the Orlando-based boutique　Fini.tv. Patrick takes his experience working at high-end, full-service New York City post houses and delivers those same services to low- and mid-budget productions. Patrick has worked on films, documentaries, television series, corporate videos, promos, and ID packages for a range of clients including HBO, NBC, ABC, Showtime, ESPN, Oxygen, AMC, Lifetime, TNT, TBS, National Geographic Channel, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, AOL, TV One, Virgin Records, and many more. For many years, Patrick was also an Adjunct Professor at Hofstra University, where he taught Digital Color Correction for Television, and he contributed to the book　Color Grading with Avid Media Composer and Symphony 6 by Bryan Castle. In 2010 Patrick founded the software agnostic color grading training website　TaoOfColorGrading.com, which focuses on the art, craft and business of professional color grading

Inhalt

Introduction

The Story of the Resurrection Plant

Why this book?

Terminology and Conventions

Removing the Intimidation of the First Move

How most people color correct (and why it sets you up for failure)

Who is this book for?

What’s NOT covered in this book

Essential online supplements for this book

Free video webinars

Free ‘Build Your Color Correction Muscles’ web training series

The Blueprint: Step 1 - Feeding your images water

The Blueprint: Step 2 - Making it rain

The Blueprint: Step 3 - Propagating your business

The Blueprint is a starting point

Color Correction doesn’t require ‘special’ eyes

Bonus Assets

Featured App

Summary

Getting Started

Prologue I - The Webinar

Prologue II - Building Your Color Correction Muscle Memory

Prologue III - ‘Color Correction’ vs ‘Color Grading’

Prologue IV - The Blueprint and ‘The 3-Pass Workflow’

Prologue V - Elements of a Professional Reference Display

Featured Apps

The Blueprint: Step 1 - The ‘Base Grade’

Reminder: The 45-Second Rule

Digging Deeper: The Importance of ‘The Base Grade’

A. Your First Move

The ‘BBC Rule’

Understanding RAW-, LOG- and Flat- Recorded Images

What about ‘non-flat’ recorded images?

BBC: Mini Summary

B. Your Second Move

The ‘SALly Rule’

The Rookie Mistake

Common Saturation Tools

How Saturated is Too Saturated?

Mini Summary

C. Breaking the Rules

Is Color Overwhelming Your Brightness Perception?

Examples

D. The Base Grade Workflow: Putting it together

Big Honking Moves First

Focus On: Waveforms and Vectorscopes!

Reminders

Workshop: Using a Featured 3WCC App

Workshop: LOG, RAW and the Base Grade using LUTs

Bonus Material: Working with LUTs

E. Recap: The Base Grade

Summary

Action Checklist

Next

The Blueprint: Step 2 -

Shot Matching

What is the Colorist’s ‘real’ job?

How does our workflow change in Step 2?

Working in Passes = Working with Multiple Filters

A. Evaluate for Continuity

Playing across the edit

Playing backwards

B. Fix Bigger Mis-matches First

Shot Matching is part of ‘building’ a color correction

The big mismatches

Mismatched saturation

Mismatched brightness

Focus on: Point-sources of light

Focus on: Mismatched ‘black points’ and ‘white points’

Color Mismatches? Check Brightness First

C. Next: Fixing the Nitty-Gritty

The Small Mismatches

Mismatched colors

Mismatched skin tones

Mismatched background elements

D. The ‘Minimum Viable Color Correction’

How detailed is too detailed?

Get to the end before getting nit-picky

E. The Shot Matching Workflow: Putting It Together

50 / 50: Your Eyes + The Scopes

Featured App for Shot Matching

Shot Matching Summary

Recap

Action Checklist

Next

The Blueprint: Step 3 - Finishing Touches

A. Pay attention to your eye

Channel your inner painter

B. Look for the Maximum Payoff First

C. The Fundamentals of ‘Look Creation’

‘The Singularity Effect’

The Value of the Base Grade and Shot Matching

High Impact Look Creation Techniques

The Vignette

Luma Qualifiers

Keying back skin tones

Working with Skies and Clouds

D. Featured App

E. Finishing Touches Summary

Recap

Action Checklist

Next

Working Like a Professional (with a specialty in Color)

A. It’s all about the Client

Helping them make big decisions, early

The ‘Hero Shots’ Workflow

Learning to ‘See Like Your Client’

B. How NOT to lose money or miss deadlines

How many shots can you correct in a day?

Core Information to bid a job properly

Selecting workflows based on budget and deadlines

C. Billing Clients Like A Professional

Core elements of a good quote

Track your time—and then Invoice

Billing using ‘cloud-based’ services

D. Featured App

E. Summary

Recap

Action Checklist

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2025
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 191 x 235 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-138-66723-4 / 1138667234
• ISBN-13: 978-1-138-66723-5 / 9781138667235
• Zustand: Neuware