Color school training courses in Chicago, IL (public, in-house or online)

In this course students explore the basic principles and elements of two-dimensional design techniques. Students learn to identify these elements in successful designs and also learn to use these elements to solve their own design problems.

Designed for the intermediate to advanced user, this two-day course teaches the editor how to apply Symphony specific effects like motion tracking, Ultimatte and Reformat as well as how to utilize Color Correction mode. The editor will learn how to track the motion of a selected area in an image and how to stabilize jerky video images. He/she will learn Symphony’s real time keyer, Ultimatte, which can reproduce fine details like hair as well as transparent or translucent objects. The course...

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This two-day course, designed for the intermediate user, explains how to color correct a sequence on Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress Pro. The editor will learn how to color correct each shot in a sequence, use Avid’s internal video scopes, make sure the color and luminance are within safe broadcast limits, and create a treatment for an entire sequence. Class time is divided between demonstration and hands-on practice.

Prerequisites: Completion of the 101 Editing with Avid Media Compo...

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This three-day hands-on course will familiarize students with Apple’s masterful new color grading and finishing software. Start with the basics of color balancing and correction, and move on to the fine points of secondary grading, including scene matching, using vignettes to isolate and track regions, creating advanced color effects and "looks", skin tone adjustments, adjusting the composition and framing of a shot, and much more.

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This course will help you master all the powerful tools in the Final Cut Studio production bundle. Starting with the concept of “roundtripping�- moving fluidly between Final Cut Pro and its other applications--we’ll work with Soundtrack Pro for audio editing, sound design and composition. Next, we’ll focus on Motion, Apple’s motion graphics and effects software, followed by Color, the newest addition to Final Cut Studio. All of these are combined with Compressor to create media for authoring in...

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