From the course: Color for Video Editors

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How long and how much effort will a project take to color correct?

How long and how much effort will a project take to color correct?

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How long and how much effort will a project take to color correct?

- In the previous chapter, we talked about the essentials of creatively evaluating a project or shots in that project. In this chapter and starting in this movie, I want to discuss how to kind of figure out how long a project is going to take and perhaps more importantly, figure out how difficult or how much effort you're gonna have to apply to different color corrections tasks. If there's one area that I see a lot of editors who are doing more color work struggle in, it's figuring out how long a project is going to take and how hard a specific task will be. And it's not something that's easy to figure out. These things are answered by experience. The more time that you have working on projects and coloring those projects, you'll eventually figure out, "Oh, this type of project is going to take me this long with this much effort." But when I think about these two areas- how long something is gonna take and how hard it will be, we can break them down into several areas to think about…

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