From the course: Pro Video Tips

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Hiring a colorist

Hiring a colorist

- Now, the final tip I want to share with you is one of the very last, but most important and valuable steps that I think you can take to help your work match the look and feel of more professional productions and match professional color correction. Yes, presumably we're all doing our own color correction as part of post, fixing bad white balance and playing around with the sliders until we see something we like on screen. However, the operative word I'm using here is "professional." What I'm talking about is hiring a pro colorist who's already spent years perfecting their craft and mastering the latest software tools and whose sole goal in life is to make your mediocre video look good and your good video look great. And, if you give them great video to begin with, you just might win an award for best cinematography. Pretty much all editing programs, like Avid, Premiere or Final Cut, have some color correction tools built in. However, on the pro side of color correcting, they use…

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