After Effects Guru: Color Grading Footage

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About this Course

Explore techniques for color correcting video in After Effects. Learn how to fix exposure and tone problems, make creative adjustments, and more.
Adobe After Effects offers a wealth of tools for making both technical and artistic color changes to footage. Whether color correcting footage for consistency or color grading to create mood, adjusting color is a critical phase of post-production.

Expert introduces a basic workflow for getting a shot back to its best natural state and shares advanced techniques to push footage further, such as converting it to black and white or adding creative color.

 

Topics include:

  • Evaluating the shot
  • Fixing white balance
  • Fixing exposure and tone
  • Adjusting color
  • Converting to black and white
  • Reading scopes
  • Using adjustment layers
  • Creating a film look
  • Adding texture
  • Working with third-party tools

 

Contents

 

Introduction
Color grading footage in After Effects

Exercise files

Moving from Final Cut Pro X to After Effects

Moving from Premiere Pro to After Effects

Using the Media Browser

Strategies to improve file naming and timecode

 

1. The Color Grading Workflow
Evaluating the shot

Fixing white balance

Fixing exposure and tone

Adjusting color

Applying enhancements

Reusing adjustments

 

2. Essential Techniques
Using adjustment layers

Applying LUTs with the Lumetri effect

Saving animation presets

Strategies for tough white balance: Levels and curves

Strategies for tough white balance: Neutralizing, part 1

Strategies for tough white balance: Neutralizing, part 2

Comparing effects

 

3. Fixing Exposure and Tone
Fixing tone with the Lumetri effect

Fixing exposure and tone with Curves

Using auto adjustments

The Shadow or Highlights adjustment

Using the Black & White effect for contrast

Using the Equalize command

 

4. Primary Color Correction
Fixing color cast with tint and white balance

Using the color stabilizer effect

Fixing color with primary color correction

Adding vibrance

Using photo filters

Using a reference color checker

Using blending modes

 

5. Secondary Color Correction
Creating spot colors with the Black & White effect

Using the Leave Color effect

Adjusting a single color with the Change Color effect

Adding masks and mattes to adjustment layers

Secondary color correction with Curves

 

6. Black and White and Color Toning
Black and white conversion method 1

Black and white conversion method 2

Black and white conversion method 3

Creating duotone, tritone, and pentone effects

Enhancing with the Colorama effect

Creating custom gradients

 

7. Finishing Touches
Creating a film look

Adding a power window

Adding texture

Using the creative controls in the Lumetri Color effect

 

8. Working with Third-Party Tools
Creating a LUT with Photoshop

Creating a LUT with IWLTBAP

Creating a LUT with 3D LUT Creator

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