This week, I'm doing a presentation for O'Reilly called: "
Become a Better Presenter." This expands upon my book -
Techniques of Visual Persuasion - and covers speaking techniques, presentation design and photography. O'Reilly offers a 10-day free trial - so you can watch my presentation without needing to join.
The presentation link only works after you sign in.
Last week's webinar on the
Color Tools in Apple Final Cut Pro was very well-received. I covered color tools that I haven't presented before in video. Some excellent discussion as well. While I've pulled a few excerpts, viewing the entire presentation will help even more. This is also posted to my
Video Training Library.
As I was looking over some past articles, here's one on harnessing the dynamic nature of compound clips in Final Cut Pro. This is a great example of how you can create something once, then reuse it quickly and easily.
Here's an excerpt from last week's webinar: The Three Rules of Color Correction. There's actually a theory on how to fix color problems. These Three Rules will help you better understand it. These apply to any NLE.
In another excerpt, and building on what we learned in the Three Rules, this shows how to fix a color cast - the image is too blue or too green - in a clip.
Finally, color grading HDR is an entirely different world, which requires more hardware than a computer monitor. However, what CAN be done easily is editing HDR material into an SDR timeline. Similar to shooting 4K for a 1080p project, this gives us a lot more control over the image than standard Rec. 709 media. In this video tutorial, I show how to integrate HDR media into an SDR timeline.
If it's almost March, that means it's almost spring - at least here in the Northern Hemisphere. Those of you "down south" can enjoy the lingering days of summer before fall arrives. Either way, there's hope the weather is finally turning pleasant.
Stay safe, stay hopeful - in spite of today's challenges - and, until next Monday, edit well.
