Last week I asked what topic you wanted to see next, and because the answers were so varied, I decided to start tackling each of them.
This tutorial shows you how to create effects in your videos using basic color correction tools. In fact, I intentionally demonstrate this using the Final Cut Express color correction tool, which is super basic. Naturally, if you have more advanced tools, you can do a lot more.
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August 12, 2010
There are so many magical things that can happen in post-production, and this week’s episode is another example of that. I demonstrate how to apply an effect called Skin Smoothing to make your video subject’s skin tones smoother. This process can smooth the little bumps, freckles, and blemishes that are part of everyday skin to make a person’s skin look nearly flawless.
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January 15, 2009
Several viewers asked me how I created shadows around the edges of the video clip in last week’s episode. It’s an effect called a “vignette”, and it’s very easy to do. This week’s tutorial is an in-depth explanation on why you might want to use a vignette, and how to create it.
What you’ll find in this video:
- When to use a vignette
- How to create a vignette in Final Cut Pro
- How to create a tracker in Color
- How to animate a vignette in Color
- How to adjust vignette settings to your liking
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November 13, 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 the video tutorial 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.
October 18, 2008
This past weekend, my family went on a short road trip to Show Low, Arizona. On the way back, we stopped along the side of the road, put the video camera on a tripod, and shot some footage of ourselves. Since we were all in the picture, nobody was operating the camera. Also, an approaching storm was imminent, and I was afraid it would rain, so I rushed through the camera setup and forgot to adjust the exposure.
The footage turned out terrible. It’s too dark, flat, and unexciting.
In this installment of Izzy Video, I show a quick way to make the footage look (a little) better.
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July 5, 2008
