Lesson 16

Color Correction, Keys, and Mattes

Setting Up the Project

One more time, begin by loading the material you need onto your media drive and reconnect the media if necessary. For this lesson we’ll use the materials in the Lesson 16 project.

Inside your project, you’ll find in the Browser, the Clips bin, a master clip called Dance, and other sequences, Keying and Color, that we’ll look at here.

Color Correction

Good exposure and color begins in the shooting. It’s easier and always better to do it correctly to begin with rather than trying to fix it in post-production. That means lighting the scene well, exposing it correctly, setting your ...

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