DigitalFilm Tree Color Correction Training
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What don’t I like about the DVD? I really would have liked to have seen a step by step, work at your own pace series of tutorials that would allow the user to load up FCP, open the files being discussed, and then see how color correction works for their particular situations.
Some people who purchase the DVD may have some difficulty opening the project files and might find all the links to the original media broken. DigitalFilm Tree currently has a help file on their Web site to address those issues (mainly just reconnecting the media).[an error occurred while processing this directive]I have also used the word "theory" a great deal, because that is what this DVD is all about -- color correction theory and best practices. I really didn’t find a great deal of useful tutorial material that an intermediate-to-advanced user would need.
If you are a beginner user of Final Cut Pro or someone who is just stepping into the world of color correcting, then you should find this DVD valuable.
The DVD sells for $69.95.
If I really liked the DVD material, I loathed the Final Cut Pro Color Correction 101 book that they sell. This “book” contains all of the same material found on the DVD, but in outline form. I really got the sense from flipping through this “book” that it was a companion for a class – full of notes and reminders that you would need as if you were following along to an instructor’s lecture. I think what gave it away was the fact that the Table of Contents are broken into Day 1 material and Day 2 material.The next puzzling thing about this “book” is that while there are exercises/tutorials for color correcting, there is not an included DVD ROM of material for you to follow along with, even though the exercises tell you to open a project off a disc. I was pretty puzzled by all of this, especially when the cover of my “book” didn’t even match the cover of the book advertised online. When I tried contacting DigitalFilm Tree about this, I received no response to my query.
To make it worse, the company is charging $99.95 for this Kinko’s-bound collection of lecture notes -- way more expensive than needed. To put it bluntly, don’t waste your time with this thing unless you took a class from DigitalFilm Tree and lost your notes. I can’t believe DigitalFilm Tree is selling this as a stand-alone product.
What they should have done is combined this bound material with the DVD and sold the two together for $79.95, but they didn’t, so my only thoughts on these two products is “DigitalFilm Tree Color Correction DVD good/DigitalFilm Tree Final Cut Pro Color Correction 101 bad”. If you are having difficulty grasping the concepts of color correction, the DVD is going to be well worth your investment. Don’t waste your time on the book unless you need a tax writeoff.
DigitalFilm Tree can be found on the Web at www.digitalfilmtree.com
When not working deep in the labs of the DMN Central Division testing the latest and greatest software/hardware products Stephen Schleicher can be found at the local university teaching a few courses on video and Web production. He can be reached at schleicher@mindspring.com. You can also visit him on the web at www.mindspring.com/~schleicher
Source: Digital Media Online, Inc.
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