color correction resources sought
by Jordan Kerfeld
on
Jul 7, 2008 at 2:20:03 pm
hello--
Color correcting my first HD project shot on the Sony XDCAM EX1. 720/24p. Its a short; final TRT is about 6min15 sec.
Looking for advice and information (links, your reply) regarding using FCP's color correction monitors (wave form, vectorscope, histogram, etc...) as I haven't used them in the past on other projects and thinking it might be a good idea to read up on them for this one.
In the past SDV projects I did I merely made sure I didn't have any exclamation points (i.e. the excess luma) and that the clips were broadcast safe. I'm fairly convinced that HD is a different beast and would likely require I pay attention to some of these monitoring tools.
I've been editing picture and sound at home but will be taking my drive to school to color correct (theres an HDMI connected monitor there and though not ideal, I'm thinking I'll get "truer" color than my basic LCD monitor connected to my Mac Pro at home)
Any links or info regarding these monitoring tools? Am I worrying too much about this? Thank you for your help and advice!
