Subtitle on cover: Correcting and grading in Final cut studio.

Getting started -- Lesson 1 : Working with the color interface -- Setting up your computer -- Setting up a project -- Understanding the eight rooms : color's task-based workflow -- Navigating your sequence -- Exploring the setup room -- Applying basic grades -- Viewing your images -- Performing secondary grades -- Employing color FX -- Applying final touches -- Panning and scanning -- Utilizing still stores -- Correcting the sequence -- Introducing the render queue room -- Lesson review -- Lesson 2 : Basic grading -- Exploring the primary room -- Using the auto balance control -- Grading with the color balance controls -- Grading with curves -- Understanding additional controls -- Lesson review -- Lesson 3 : Basic secondary grading -- Three types of secondaries -- Performing key-based secondaries -- Performing vignette-based secondaries -- Creating a look -- Secondary curves -- Lesson review --

Lesson 4 : Advanced secondary grading -- Using multiple secondaries -- Combining a key and a vignette -- Using multiple keys -- Creating custom mask shapes -- Combining vignettes -- Incorporating curve effects -- Lesson review -- Lesson 5 : Grade management -- Managing grades on a single shot - Switching between grades -- Adding and deleting grades -- Duplicating a grade -- Setting the beauty grade -- Saving corrections and grades -- Deleting saved corrections -- Organizing corrections -- Saving secondary corrections -- Saving grades -- Moving grades from clip to clip -- Dragging individual corrections -- Grouping shots -- Applying grades to groups -- Working with multiple grades -- Lesson review -- Lesson 6 : Color effects -- Using the color effects room -- Applying nodes -- Building color effects -- Controlling node order -- Monitoring inactive nodes -- Adding nodes to existing trees -- Saving and reapplying effects as presets -- Modifying an applied preset -- Working with preset color effects -- Lesson review --

Lesson 7 : Common recipes -- Black Hawk Down/Mogadishu look -- CSI Miami look -- Schindler's List look -- Flashback look -- Saturated sunrise look -- Skin diffusion and beauty tricks -- Lesson review -- Lesson 8 : Keyframing effects -- Animating effects in color -- Manipulating keyframes -- Navigating to keyframes -- Deleting keyframes -- Keyframing other rooms -- Changing interpolation settings-- Animating user shapes -- Adding intermediary keyframes -- Keyframing color effects -- Lesson review -- Lesson 9 : Recomposing and tracking -- Using the geometry room -- Recomposing shots -- Animating pan and scan effects -- Tracking objects -- Applying tracking data to corrections -- Offsetting the vignette -- Manual tracking -- Lesson review -- Lesson 10 : Primary out and rendering -- Global changes and final tweaks -- Modifying and replacing primary out room settings -- Creating a stylized primary out corrections to grouped clips -- Manually controlled broadcast-safe output -- Adjusting black levels -- Limiting the range of black level adjustments -- Manually adjusting white and black levels -- Manually adjusting chroma levels -- Rendering color projects -- Using color's archive feature -- Lesson review --

Appendix A : Alternate and advanced workflows -- Importing clips to the timeline -- Importing EDLs -- Slicing in the timeline and using the timeline edit tools -- Relinking clips -- Appendix B : Setting up color correction environment -- Setting up your room -- Choosing video hardware -- Choosing computer hardware -- Glossary -- Index.

Requirements for accompanying DVD-ROM: Mac Pro, 24-inch iMac, 2.5 GHz or faster Power Mac G5 Quad, or 17-inch MacBook Pro with MAC OS X v10.4.11 or later operating system and standard graphics card; multi-button mouse with scroll wheel; display setting of 1680 x 1050 pixels minimum resolution.

Includes index.