Patrick Inhofer: Color Correction. After digesting everything from the first two posts in this series you should be getting a sense of how important the viewing environment is to the colorist. There’s a reason I started this series by talking about these optical illusions. As a colorist you need to understand this fundamental point: Therefore, we need control as many variables as possible when color grading.
Here are a few preliminary rules: These rules are NOT arbitrary. These rules are not a cynical ploy by established professionals to raise the barrier of entry to becoming a professional colorist. These rules arise from deepest recess of human biology. Always remember: Your mind’s eye forces the current reality to conform to your past experiences. In the first post of this series we examined how the brain takes raw retinal input, finds visual clues and then superimposes our past experiences onto that visual data.
Yesterday, I introduced the notion of the Colorist’s Dilemma. What did our client have yesterday? Freelance Digital Intermediate, Commercial and Music Promo Colorist -Jack Jones Freelance Digital Intermediate Colorist. Teaching YOU High-Quality DSLR Video Production. For a nice chart of different formats and their chroma subsampling schemes, Click here to see the list maintained by Wikipedia Alex, can you explain the difference between 4:4:4, 4:2:2 and 4:2:0? What we're talking about here is called Chroma Subsampling, and if your eyes glaze over when you hear that, you're not alone. There's a LOT of confusion about this topic, and most of it stems from the fact that there have been two different approaches to chroma subsampling, and both of them are written out the same way: 4:x:x.
However, I'm only going to cover the more modern and prevalent system. Let's start at the beginning. Now, to have an reasonably good picture, every pixel needs to have its own luma data. The first number "J" tells us how many pixels wide the the reference block for our sampling pattern is going to be. The second number tells us how many pixels in the top row get chroma samples. And the third number tells us how many pixels in the bottom row get chroma samples. Video Color Correction Tutorials & Training: Tao of Color Grading. Color Correction Training & Tutorials | TaoOfColor.com. The Tao has a lot of stuff going on. This is your quick and easy guide to our resources on professional desktop color grading: The Free Stuff The Tao Colorist Sunday Morning Newsletter: 40+ Sundays a year you can sit down with your morning coffee and catch up with all the latest news, tutorials, resources, funnies and career advice for anyone interested in the field of color correction.
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