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In last week's episode, we chnaged the color balance of a shot with curves. This week we'll do the same thing with the color wheels. SHOW NOTES If you really want to learn about color correction, I strongly recommend Steve Hullfish's "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0240809904?ie=UTF8&tag=avidscree-20 (Disclaimer: If you buy the book from the link above, I'll get a small kickback from Amazon.) Check out the blog enry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc25 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

In this episode, we'll severely change the white balance of an image to correct an underexposed, wrongly balanced clip and make it look decent. We'll use the curves in Avid's Color Correction to do it. SHOW NOTES If you really want to learn about color correction, I strongly recommend Steve Hullfish's "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0240809904?ie=UTF8&tag=avidscree-20 (Disclaimer: If you buy the book from the link above, I'll get a small kickback from Amazon.) Check out the blog enry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc24 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

In this episode, we'll manipuate the basic contrast of an image, setting the black and white levels and gamma. We'll do this in two different ways: First by using the Setup, Gain and Gamma controls, then by using curves. SHOW NOTES If you really want to learn about color correction, I strongly recommend Steve Hullfish's "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0240809904?ie=UTF8&tag=avidscree-20 (Disclaimer: If you buy the book from the link above, I'll get a small kickback from Amazon.) Check out the blog enry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc23 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

In this episode, we'll lay the groundwork for episodes to come, talking about scopes, what they mean and why you should always pay attention to them. Plus: Everyone who uses the Brightness and Contrast controls should seriously consider changing his profession. SHOW NOTES If you really want to learn about color correction, I strongly recommend Steve Hullfish's "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0240809904?ie=UTF8&tag=avidscree-20 (Disclaimer: Purchasing the book from the link above will make me filthy rich. If you don't want to make me go all bourgeois on you, buy the book from somewhere else. But buy it.) Check out the blog enry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc22 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

In this episode, we'll continue our deep-dive into one of the most powerful and most-used effects in Avid: The Timewarp. We'll cover the following basics in this episode: manipulating the Position Graph, rebuilding presets on your own, Default Render Settings. Check out the blog enry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc21 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

In this episode, we'll deep-dive into one of the most powerful and most-used effects in Avid: The Timewarp. We'll cover the basics in this episode and the next. This week: Render types, keyframe interpolation and manipulating the Speed Graph. Check out the blog enry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc20 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

This is the fifth of several episodes covering a workflow for using Red Digital Cinema Cameras with your Avid editing application. In this episode, we'll transcode Red's R3Ds to Avid-native DNxHD MXF files using Redcine-X, a free transcoding, grading and editing utility by Red that is available for Mac and Windows. It's free, it's easy *and* it's fast. So you better check this out. SHOW NOTES Download the latest Redcine-X build and the PDF manual from Reduser: http://reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=539913&postcount=11 Redcine-X Forum on Reduser http://www.reduser.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=56 Avid Screencast's Red Workflow Guide http://www.avidscreencast.com/red Check out the blog enry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc19 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast The images in this episode were provided by Johanna Thiel. http://www.onhi.de

The big star of this episode is my new audio interface that provides great sound quality. Listen to the noise! Don't hear it? See? In other news, a good old transition that looks like your film projector broke down. Who wouldn't want that? Especially if it's so simple to do! SHOW NOTES The song from this episode is Eloi Brunelle - Oberkampf, which is available for free from Tinner Netlabel. http://www.thinner.cc/pages/releases/releases_detail.php?id=thn042 Check out the blog enry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc18 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

So you have a bunch of subtitles or lower thirds to do. They all look the same, except for the contents. You're not seriously considering doing them all by hand in Title Tool, are you? Enter Marquee's Autotitler, which is here to make your life easy. Honestly, if you didn't know about this one, you will thank me sooner or later. SHOW NOTES Learn more about Marquee in this Online Tutorial from Avid: http://learn.avid.com/content/tutorials/marquee/tutorial.html Check out the blog enry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc17 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

In this episode, we'll create a secondary color correction in Avid Media Composer. Secondary color correction is applying one correction to the image as a whole, but a different correction to a specific portion of the image. This can be necessary in a lot of situations, mostly when you need a different treatment of skin tones compared to the rest of your image. SHOW NOTES If you really want to learn about color correction, I strongly recommend Steve Hullfish's "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0240809904?ie=UTF8&tag=avidscree-20 (Disclaimer: Purchasing the book from the link above will make me filthy rich. If you don't want to make me go all bourgeois on you, buy the book from somewhere else. But buy it.) Check out the blog enry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc12 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

This is the fourth of several episodes covering a workflow for using Red Digital Cinema Cameras with your Avid editing application. In this episode, we'll conform a sequence that was offline edited in Avid to Apple's Color, where you'll be able to grade from the original R3Ds. You will not believe it, but it's actually a pretty quick and painless process! SHOW NOTES RedUser.net Forum Entry Outlining the Workflow http://reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=511909&postcount=1 Jörgen Persson's CineXML software http://avocoda.com/cinexml/ Check out the blog enry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc15 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast The images in this episode were provided by Johanna Thiel. http://www.onhi.de

Sometimes the good, old title with static text just doesn't cut it. In this episode, we'll make the text be another layer of video. Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc14 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast The images in this episode were provides by Johanna Thiel. http://www.onhi.de

Ever on an editing system that you can't install software on? And all they've got for image manipulation is MS Paint? Get stuff done with portable applications that run off your USB flash drive! Examples include GIMP, an open-source Photoshop clone, and Songbird, an iTunes-like music player. SHOW NOTES Gimp Portable (Windows) http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable Gimp Portable (Mac) http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps/gimp/ Songbird Portable (Windows) http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/songbird_portable Index Your Files (Windows) http://www.indexyourfiles.com/ Wikipedia: List of portable software (Windows/Mac) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_portable_software Portableapps.com (Windows) http://portableapps.com/ FreeSMUg: OS X Portable Applications (Mac) http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps 100 Portable Apps for your USB Stick (Windows/Mac) http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/portable-software-usb/ Tinyapps.org (Windows/Mac) http://tinyapps.org/ Check out the blog enry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc13 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

In this episode, we'll make a sequence of photos visually interesting by animating them into a slideshow of stacked photos that slowly fade away. This episode features special appearances by my son Mika and René Hecht. SHOW NOTES The Music used in this Podcast is Gastón Arévalo – Austral. You can download this song for free from Thinner Netlabel. http://www.thinner.cc/pages/releases/releases_detail.php?id=thn109 Check out the blog enry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc12 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

This is the third of several episodes covering a workflow for using Red Digital Cinema Cameras with your Avid editing application. In this episode, we'll conform a sequence that was offline edited in Avid to uncompressed HD for finishing in Media Composer or Symphony. Look out for a special appearance by my son Jonah. SHOW NOTES RedUser.net Forum Entry Outlining the Workflow http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?p=520037 Monkey Extract http://www.rubbermonkeysoftware.com/ MetaCheater http://web.me.com/jabezolssen/metacheater/main.html Avid Editing Products & the RED One Camera http://www.avid.com/red/ Avid / RED Workflow Guide http://www.avid.com/red/REDstepbystep.pdf Check out the blog enry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc11 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast The images in this episode were provided by Johanna Thiel. http://www.onhi.de