Color Correction for Digital Video. Using Desktop Tools to Perfect Your Image.: Using Desktop Tools to Perfect Your Image (DV Expert Series) [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Well, that still doesn't say much. The author has a good start, but really, this book doesn't tell you much. It describes the history of color correction and mentions some color perception. The examples are ok, but there aren't many.
To the untrained eye, some of the pictures (such as the watermelon example) look identical. Were they intended for a different color space ? If so, why was the book released this way?

The author mixes industry jargon, such as "Pull back on the blacks" while referencing a color tool that has a label "Shadows". There are at least three sets of jargon
used interchangeably, and none are specifically defined set by set. I didn't even know what exactly a midtone was when I bought this book. The index lists a few pages for midtones, but nowhere is this term or most of the others specifically defined. For a "Digital tools" book that spends so much time on analog vector scopes, I'm disappointed that most of the examples were described in words rather than pictures.

Overall, this tutorial falls short. I learned a little, but I didn't walk away with much. I don't see the purpose of this
book. The CDROM is basically a demo distribution disk.

I bet the other glowing reviews are fake. Experienced colorists will find little in this book, and beginners can't learn much.

Dear Author, please write another edition and include a DVD
of video examples, step by step. Looking forward to your next book.

This book and companion CD is the best book I have ever read on the subject and this goes back a ways! ...

As to being a bit intimidated, this book helped me understand why I felt that way. ...

Almost 100 pages into the book I was still learning about tools available, the alternative monitoring available and how each works. As a "senior" editor who lived through the linear days where one eye was always on the WFM/VS, I thought I knew these devices fairly well, but "Chapter 5: Using Scopes as Creative Tools" taught me quite a bit. ...

I truly appreciated the CD-ROM. In addition to the graphics files/tutorial images, the disk also included software tools and plug-ins from companies such as 3-Prong, Boris FX, Digital Film Tools, Discreet, Synthetic Aperture, and Tektronix. There were also full-length interviews with renowned experts. These and the comments made in the book were very useful. ...

Once I made it through the first half of the book (I needed to re-read it a few times), the tutorial segment was superb! I can truly say I have a far greater understanding of color tonality, and feel far less intimidation when confronted with the need to access the color correction/grading tools and do a bit of tweaking.

One very nice aspect to the book is the way several different manufacturers' toolsets were used and several different manufacturer's waveform displays were illustrated.

This is a book for the experienced editor, and a basic understanding of the technology and editing process is assumed by the writers.

I am going to close with a quote -- the very first words in the introduction:

"As technology brings more and more innovations into the edit suite, editors are expected to perform a much broader section of postproduction tasks, including audio sweetening, compositing, graphics, compression and 3D animation -- not to mention editing. Now you can add to this list the daunting responsibility of color correction. Not simply making an image brighter or darker or "legal", but manipulating the picture with a vast palette of tools that have only recently become available on the desktop."

If you agree with this viewpoint, this book is a MUST READ! I emphatically state that it is worth the effort.

The examples in the book are also well-chosen and painstakingly done, so you really can see the difference in the "before" and "after" states of a picture.

I must confess that I've gotten so much valuable information from the book that I haven't explored the CD yet. It really has changed the way I analyze what a shot needs and how I go about making changes.