Both of these buttons are easily mapable to custom keyboard shortcuts.įigure 3.
Or you can use the Color Correction Mode button ( Figure 4, below Figure 3), one of which is near the bottom left of the timeline under the Smart Tools. Click the image to see it at full size.įrom the Windows pull-down menu ( Figure 3, below) you can open a Color Correction workspace with all the tool layouts customized the way you like them. The sequence we'll work with in this tutorial. With the sequence shown in Figure 2 (below) added in Avid, there are two easy ways to start color correction.įigure 2. Let’s have a look at how color correction works inside of Avid. Getting Started in Avid Color Correction Mode Avid's Artist Color can increase your color correction efficiency. I’ll use a trackball in this tutorial, but when I need to do a lot of corrections as quickly as possible, I use the Artist Color to keep me in the moment and tweak stuff in the most convenient manner.įigure 1. But if you want to increase efficiency by a quantum leap and impress your clients with a cool-looking interface, you can use something like the Avid Artist Color User Interface shown in Figure 1 (below).
In Avid, you can do color correction using the same input tools that you use for editing, such as a mouse or a trackball or tablet. In Avid, though, you're a click of a button from updating the edit or the color correction. In systems that require roundtripping, this takes a lot of time, requires specialized workflows, and rarely works properly or conveniently. But as we all know, when we think the final edit is done, there’s always something else that gets tweaked. That means color correction should really be a process done near the end of the edit. Generally, you want to do color correction in context of the shots around it. In Avid, color correction is a mode, which allows you quick access to its features but keeps them out of the way while you're editing.
Most other NLEs either add color correction as an effect or a completely separate process that requires leaving the NLE then roundtripping back to the editor. It’s a process that can make the most obvious difference to your projects in the eyes of your clients, so it’s a very good thing to know how to do, and it’s critical that your NLE allows you to do it easily and to do it well. In the last few years, color correction has come to be used directly by editors instead of separately by colorists. One of the many strengths of Avid is the method of applying color correction. Avid has long been the overwhelming NLE of choice for major feature films and primetime scripted TV shows.
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