Baselight Week LA. December 7-9, 2021.
Event Information
About this event
Baselight Week LA: free training courses
December 7-9, 2021
FilmLight LA
FilmLight Training invites you to a special week of color training at the FilmLight office in Los Angeles.
Our three free courses cover the fundamentals of color grading, color spaces and media management in Baselight.
Each course/day is dedicated to a different audience, from an introductory level to more advanced operation, and combines demonstrations of techniques and features as well as hands-on exercises.
You'll find more information about the content of each day down the bottom of this page.
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Moving to Baselight: Tuesday December 7
Aimed at experienced colorists on Resolve and other grading systems.
This course will help you translate existing skills to quickly become fluent on Baselight and take advantage of unique tools to take your expertise even further.
Conform & Assist: Wednesday December 8
For color assistants, conform artists and online editors.
Tailored for those who need to deploy their color workflow and maximize all assist tasks by setting up projects, automating processes, performing conform/render, generating deliverables and more.
Baselight for Beginners: Thursday December 9
Aimed at those with less experience in color grading, or wanting a general introduction to Baselight.
A practical training session for anyone looking to get started working with Baselight professionally.
The course will provide an overview of the many facets of Baselight. It touches on everything, from basic setup and customization to how the different grading tools work, and how they fit into larger workflows.
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Note...
It is required to bring a laptop compatible with Baselight STUDENT, FilmLight’s software-only macOS application developed for training purposes. Baselight STUDENT will be used during the day for practice sessions. Registrants will be sent a software licence and media package before the course.
The event is free for all attendees, but space is limited so please register early. Click on 'Register' to get access to all the detailed information.
Attendants are required to show proof of full COVID-19 vaccination in order to participate and enter our facilities.
Course syllabus
Each day starts at 10AM and finishes at 5PM, with a Q&A. Lunch break is between 1PM-2PM.
Moving to Baselight
- User Interface customization & overview
- Media management & conform
- Truelight Colour Spaces & Base Grade
- Advanced shapes, paint and tracking
- Filtering and sorting for Grouped Grading
- Boost Tools (Shadows, Color, Contrast)
- Texture Tools (Equalize, Highlight, Blend)
Conform & Assist
- Scene setup media management
- Conform & editing
- Formats
- Mastering the timeline with marks & categories
- Multipaste
- Rendering & delivering reports & other metadata
- Managing titles and VFX
Baselight for Beginners
- Project creation & management
- User Interface overview
- Introduction to Truelight Colour Spaces
- Primary grading tools (Base Grade, Film Grade, Video Grade)
- Secondary Tools (Curve Grade, Hue Shift)
- Comparing shots & copying grades
- Combining shapes & keys
- Intro to advanced grading tools (Boost, Texture, Grain)