Get Up & Running in Color 1.5

Color 1.5 introduces some significant changes and enhancements that makes color grading and correction more efficient. If you are already familiar with the previous version of Color, this tutorial will guide you through the changes that will affect your workflow. Learn from filmmaker and colorist Alexis Van Hurkman as he shows you what these new features mean to your workflow and how to get the most from them. The running time of this complete tutorial is just under under and hour.

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Experience our Training on the iPad

The iPad is revolutionizing the way people access and interact with media. Video training is therefore a natural fit for people who want their training on the go or on a separate device from their main system. Because of the limited storage capacities of the iPad, we have labored to keep the movie sizes as small as possible while maintaining our high standards of image and sound quality. And perhaps best of all, you don't need to be connected to the internet to watch our tutorials on your iPad.

How Does it Work?

We realize you may have a question or two, so we created a short FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page to answer them.

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Better Secondaries

Secondary correction allows you to target your corrections to specific areas within the frame. In Color 1.5 you'll experience far less mouse clicks to enable secondaries and apply trackers. In the Color FX room, you have more control over individual color channels and can work with more complex node trees using copy/paste operations.

Better Tracking Tools

Learn how to combine automatic tracks with manual tracks. This new feature alone will save you countless hours as you can now manually track from the point at which the automatic tracker lost its way.

New RED Workflows in Color 1.5

While RED support was introduced in the previous version of Color, Color 1.5 improves things with full support of 4K RED media, either as native RED QuickTime files or as the originally archived REDCODE media. Alexis will show you the two primary workflows you can follow to correct and grade programs that use RED source media.

Powerful Specialty Workflows

Color 1.5 provides powerful new features to aid with more specialized workflows involving EDL imports, DPX media conversions and digital daily offline to online workflows.

Watch on Apple TV

We've formatted all the iTunes tutorials for playback Apple TV. If you have an Apple TV connected to a wired or wireless network, iTunes will sync the tutorials with your Apple TV. Then just sit back, remote in hand, and watch the tutorials on your Hi Def monitor connected over DVI. The picutre quality is stunning.

Who is this Tutorial For?

Anyone who is a Color user and wants a deeper understanding of how the new features in Color 1.5 will impact their workflow.

Table of Contents

General Improvements

Improved Grading Indicators

Enhanced Video Scopes

Secondary Room Improvements

Better Tracking Tools

Improved Render Management

Improved Workflows

Improved Support of Speed Effects

Preserved FCP Motion Tab Settings

New Format Support

New RED Workflows

New Specialty Workflows

System Requirements

• MAC G5 or better
• MacOS X
• 1 Gigabytes or more of RAM
• QuickTime 7.0 or above
• Monitor Depth - Millions
• 1600 x 1000 screen size or better