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    Colour Grading Foundations

    $49.00AUD

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    The whole job, in order: how to read a frame, balance a shot, match a scene, build a look and deliver it so it survives the client’s laptop. Fifteen lessons, four hours, on real projects with the mistakes left in. 15 lessons, 4 h 12 min Project files, footage and every LUT built in the course Lifetime access and updates

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    Colour Grading Foundations·3 of 16 lessons free

    Free lesson01 · Seeing colour3:40

    Welcome, and how to watch this course

    What the course covers, what it does not, and how to follow along with your own footage.

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    What you will be able to do

    For editors and filmmakers who grade their own work and want to stop guessing

    • Read any frame by eye and on the scopes before touching a control
    • Balance and match a scene so nobody notices you were there
    • Build a look from a reference still and save it as a LUT that behaves
    • Grade skin first, and know why
    • Deliver a grade that survives the client’s laptop
    Level
    Beginner
    Runtime
    4 h 11 min
    Lessons
    16 in 4 modules
    Language
    English
    Quizzes
    1
    Live sessions
    1
    Certificate
    On completion
    Access
    Lifetime, any device

    What to have first

    • DaVinci Resolve — the free version is fine
    • A monitor you can trust, or a plan to calibrate one
    • Some footage of your own to grade alongside mine

    What is inside

    Watch the free lessons before you decide.

    4
    modules
    16
    lessons
    4 h 11 min
    runtime
    3
    free
    1. 01Seeing colourHow to look at an image before you touch it.4 lessons · 38 min
      1. Welcome, and how to watch this courseVideoWatch free3:40
      2. What a colourist actually doesVideoWatch free9:15
      3. Reading a frame: contrast, hue, saturationVideoIn the course14:20
      4. Scopes without the mathsReadingIn the course11:05
    2. 02The primary gradeBalance first, look second.4 lessons · 52 min
      1. Exposure and white balance in logVideoIn the course16:30
      2. Matching shots in a sceneVideoIn the course18:45
      3. Skin, and why it comes firstVideoIn the course12:10
      4. Check yourself: the primary gradeQuiz · 4 questionsIn the course5:00
    3. 03Building a lookFrom a reference to a repeatable grade.4 lessons · 53 min
      1. Pulling a palette from a stillVideoWatch free8:30
      2. Curves, keys and the split toneVideoIn the course21:15
      3. Film emulation, honestlyVideoIn the course15:40
      4. Saving the look as a LUT you can trustVideoIn the course7:25
    4. 04DeliveryGetting it out of the room looking the same.4 lessons · 1 h 48 min · opens day 7
      1. Monitors, rooms and trusting your eyesVideoIn the course10:00
      2. Exports for web, broadcast and the clientVideoIn the course13:20
      3. Your first paid grade: a walkthroughVideoIn the course24:10
      4. Live grading Q&ALiveIn the course60:00

    What students say

    I had watched a hundred grading videos and still could not match two shots. Module two fixed that in an afternoon.
    Tomasz WierzbickiWedding filmmaker, Kraków
    The lighting masterclass paid for itself on the first job. I stopped guessing and started placing.
    Ayesha RahmanDocumentary DP, Dhaka
    Mentorship is the best money I spend each month. Notes on my actual cuts, from someone who does this for real.
    Leon BaptisteEditor, Montréal

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