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Knowing Your Scopes: When to Trust Your Eye and the Most Useful Scopes of All

05.11.13 @ 6:48PM Tags : color, colorcorrection, colorgrading, colorscience, colortiming, grading, monitor, post, postproduction, provideocoalition, scopes, timing, vectorscope, waveform

Depending on the acquisition system, waveform monitors and vectorscopes can guide quality control of your imagery from shooting all the way down the pipeline to grading, mastering, and compression for delivery. Scopes can seem a little intimidating and esoteric to the new user, but getting the basics down can really help in owning your image. Recently, Alexis Van Hurkman over at ProVideo Coalition has answered some key questions about scopes: find out which ones he considers the most indispensable below, plus when it may be a good idea to trust your own pair of eyes in making adjustments — even when your scopes are reading ‘A-Okay.’ More »

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Want an Interactive Master Class with Legendary Spielberg Color Timer? There's an App for That

01.17.13 @ 6:41AM Tags : app, apple, apps, class, color-correction, colorcorrection, colorgrading, colortiming, dalegrahn, ipad, mobile, post, postproduction, timing, tutorial, tutorials

Is it possible we’re losing something through the non-destructive way in which we decide the final look of our shots? The answer, quaintly enough, is absolutely yes — but what, exactly? Simplicity. True finesse in color timing is something Dale Grahn (Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Munich, Apocalypse Now: Redux) knows a lot about, and in a true chemical timing sense — which says a lot about the power of bold and minimal control over imagery. Lucky for any of us looking to learn from the experience, Mr. Grahn is asking you to match his own color grades by way of a new iPad app — and in the process interact with the very essentials of color grading. More »