COLOR GRADING • EMF 378
Course
contents.
A growing field guide for the ideas, workflows, and visual language we will use throughout the semester.
Before you say how to grade it, say how you want it to feel.
Class guides.
Select an available class to open its full visual field guide.
Color Grading Intro & Workflow Foundations
Build a common language for visual intent, learn the Resolve workspace, and begin thinking like a colorist.
- Visual intent
- Correction vs. grading
- Resolve pages
- Order of operations
- Perception
Project Setup, Editorial Import and The Color Page
Set up a portable Resolve project and learn the path from editorial import to the Color Page—while asking what the image should feel like.
- Project Manager + Libraries/databases
- Importing + exporting .drp files
- Media import + organization
- Media Storage vs. Media Pool
- Bins
- Basic timeline
- Media / Edit / Color navigation
- Backup + portability
- Visual intent: image feeling
Scopes vs Perception
Connect Waveform, Parade, and Vectorscope readings to Lift, Gamma, Gain, Offset, and the emotional structure of contrast.
- Luminance vs. chrominance
- Waveform
- RGB Parade
- Vectorscope
- Lift / Gamma / Gain / Offset
- Contrast as emotional structure
Color Spaces and Color Space Management
Introduce RGB, Rec.709, display standards, signal levels, and the difference between manual and managed workflows—while staying in DaVinci YRGB.
- RGB vs. Rec.709
- Display standards
- Video vs. data levels
- DaVinci YRGB vs. managed
- Neutral is a look
- Manual Rec.709 project setup
COURSE MAP More class guides will be added here as the syllabus develops.