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Title: Color Correction for Digital Video: Using Desktop Tools to Perfect Your Image by Steve Hullfish, Jaime Fowler, Jaime Fowier ISBN: 1-57820-201-9 Publisher: CMP Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great job, well-balanced approach
Comment: The subject of video color correction is a difficult one, and most books about it usually suffer from being over-technical, over-theoretical, or (failing those) oversimplified. This is the best one I've read yet. A very accessible intro about color theory, followed by important technical detail (not only what a waveform or vectorscope does, but what it looks like when the color is "wrong", and what it should look like when the color has been corrected and optimized), and then, best of all, examples that are written in "editor-speak"--or more accurately, "colorist-speak". Language, that is, which is exactly how you and a client would talk to each other while analyzing a shot: "Pull down the black levels...rescue some detail from the overexposure...let's try to isolate the subject from the background and make it pop more." And then, step-by-step procedures to actually achieve those aims.
The examples in the book are also well-chosen and painstakingly done, so you really can see the difference in the "before" and "after" states of a picture.
I must confess that I've gotten so much valuable information from the book that I haven't explored the CD yet. It really has changed the way I analyze what a shot needs and how I go about making changes.
Rating: 3
Summary: nice but not enough
Comment: this book teaches enough technical detail in a clean style that everyone can understand. however i can not say the same thing for the tutorials. there should be much more tutorials in the book. also tutorials generally are not easy to be understood fully. you get the idea behind a tutorial; however can not capture little-but-important deatils if you are new to the issue.
this book opens a big world of color correction to the beginners, but it doesn't guide to its reader. it says you should try and find everything. it does not show special tecniques like bleach bypass or old movie, or how to color correct when there are 2 or more different colored lights.
the cd is not well prepared. firstly the name of the book is "color correction for digital video" but there are no video in the cd, but only pictures. you color correct pictures in tutorials. there are no "before-and-after" pics of color corrected material, so you can not judge your work. That kind of things lack in the book, so you can not trust to yourself untill you gain a sense of what is ok and what is not, and im not sure if that sense is easy to gain.
also the plug-ins for after effects (i use after effects) are not well prepared. firstly they all are demos, so when you try to correct an image via the plug-ins there is a big x on the image which alters waveform monitor and vectorscope. even more, there is not any waveform and vectorscope plug-in so i have to buy them. that really sucks, at least there should be demo version of waveform and vectorscope plug-in available in the cd.
still you need this book. because it is easy to understand the information it gives is hard to capture same information from somewhere else.
Rating: 5
Summary: Your video isn't finished until you use this book
Comment: As video has become more availble to everyone, the greatest problem with the end product is the "look."
DVD's, DV cameras have made it possible for almost anyone to make a video. But to make it look GOOD color correction is critical. To fix miscolored pictures (when you forget to white balance or if you just plain aren't the best shooter in the world) is all done with color correction.
This book explains and through direct examples, shows how to actually fix video that is under exposed, doesn't match from shot to shot and is misbalanced.
And it's done in such a way that it's understandable. It's now on my shelf as a reference. The book covers all the major editing software that has color correction in it, ALONG with color theory and reading video scopes so it's possible to understand what's wrong with your video and make it broadcast safe.
Simple question? Do you want your video to look as good as possible? Simple answer: this book.
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Title: Audio Postproduction for Digital Video by Jay Rose ISBN: 1578201160 Publisher: CMP Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Photoshop for Nonlinear Editors by Richard Harrington ISBN: 1578202094 Publisher: CMP Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Lighting for Digital Video & Television by John Jackman ISBN: 1578201152 Publisher: CMP Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects: Volume 2: Advanced Techniques by Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer ISBN: 1578202078 Publisher: CMP Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Producing Great Sound for Digital Video by Jay Rose ISBN: 1578202086 Publisher: CMP Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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