Creative Cow: Stop Staring and Start Grading with Apple Color

Chapter 1 ? The Prelude (4:14)

Opening up Color for the First Time, Starting Color from the Projects Screen, Setting up the screens for the lessons.

Chapter 2 ? What is Color? (2:59)

Brief history and explanation of why the interface looks like it does.

Chapter 3 ? Setup / User Preferences (16:45)

An in-depth overview of the entire User Prefs dialogue in the Setup Room. Your Color experience will depend greatly on understanding these setups.

Chapter 4 ? Setup / Other Tabs (7:14)

Settings for all the other Setup Room Tabs.

Chapter 5 ? Primary In Room (18:24)

Overview of the Primary In Room including Wheels vs. Curves balancing, Auto Balance, Manual Balance, how to use Middle Click and some basic Primary Grading.

Chapter 6 ? Secondaries Room with some Geometry (33:40)

Overview of the Secondaries Room including Enabling Secondaries, Curves, Vignette Controls, Creating User Shapes, Motion Tracking and Keys.

Chapter 7 ? ColorFX Room & Primary Out (15:37)

Overview of the Rooms including Building a Node Tree, Applying Filters, How and when to use the Primary Out Room.

Chapter 8 ? Geometry, Still Store, Render Queue (17:21)

Overview of additional Geometry Room features, Pan and Scan, Keyframing, Setting up the Render Queue, Send to Final Cut Pro. Additional Shapes information.

Chapter 9 ? Final Thoughts (7:34)

Copying and Saving Grades, Taking Grades with you and some other final thoughts.