Matching Shots - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 381

pulling the gammas down a bit. I'm going to warm it up a tad. The black
is looking nice and black and we've got a nice clean white back here. I just
richened it up a bit, okay? And by doing that, the saturation kind of came
into play on its own . . . I added more saturation by just darkening it down.
So I'm going to keep this and hit Control-I, which will make a still of this.”
Sliga continues with his explanation of his workflow. “Then I'm going
to call up the other scene and cut back and forth to the still. I'm more
of a cut person instead of using a wipe. First thing I'm going to do is
richen this up, warm it up a little here. I'm going to leave primaries where
they're at and I'm going to come into secondaries.”
Sliga enables secondary, but doesn't qualify anything at all, using it
as another layer of primary. “I'll richen it up a bit,” he continues, pulling
down gamma. Then he warms the image by dragging the midtone wheel
toward red/yellow. “Now I'll kick up the whites a bit, bring my blacks back
down. That's going to be a little too warm, I have a feeling,” he speculates
as he brings red back down in the mids. “Let's just see where this is at,” he
says as he hits Control-U, checking his match. So I've made this a little bit
too warm in comparison,” he says, altering the shot slightly ( Figure 9.39 ).

T I P
Sliga explains his workflow
for setting his “hero
grade”: “I copy it to grade
number one. There's a rea-
son why I use grade one.
It's a quick check. Because
we have four grades
available, what I'll do is I'll
always drag the real grade
that I want into grade one.
And if I go to the Final
Print room and choose add
all, I can see instantly that
I didn't load the correct
grade in because there's a
column in Final Print that
shows which grade has
been selected.”

(a) (b)

Fig. 9.38 (a) Secondary correction used “unqualified” as essentially an additional layer of primary correction.
(b) Data from Secondary room.

(a) (b)

Fig. 9.39 (a) Secondary correction used “unqualified” as essentially an additional layer of primary correction.
(b) Data from Secondary room.