Overview
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Learn how to composite 3D and 2D elements, color correct footage, match an original shot's light and motion, and use HDR and filmic looks to create realistic, cinematic sequences.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Understand what Curves can do like no other color corrector
- Advanced adjustment with multiple objects and Curves
- Set guide layers to solve workflow problems
- Set guide layers to freely add a nonrendering reference
- Create a color look with Curves
- Add a light-wrap effect to composite into a backlit scene
- Study a reference; then bend the rules of lighting
- Automate the light-wrap process with rd_LightWrap
- Understand lens distortion
- Composite into lens distortion
- Recognize and fix rolling shutter distortion
- Match the softness of natural edges
- Shutter speed vs. frame rate
- Match motion blur: Animated keyframes
- Set up the retime shot
- Match motion blur: No keyframes
- Use Time Remap
- Fix sloppy precomps with the Preserve frame rate when nested option
- Understand why After Effects has three bit depths
- Know the fundamental differences between HDR and LDR
- Work in HDR, even when beginning in LDR
- Be deliberate when establishing and breaking the 32-bit-per-channel pipeline
- Freely work in HDR and render in LDR
- Avoid the 32-bit-per-channel slowdown
- A brief word on color spaces and linear light
- Determine a starting point: Make it flat
- Know your color-grading options and approach
- Create cinematic color contrasts with Mojo
- Customize a film look with Looks
- Create a film look with common lens "flaws"
