Sony Vegas Tutorials, Technical Articles, Nattress Film Effects Tutorial, etc.

Sony Vegas

• Sony Vegas Color Correction - A crash course.
• Sony Vegas levels FX tutorial - An older article I wrote on the Sundance media site.
• Unsharp Mask - Basic rundown and creative uses of this filter
• Camera Matching
• Color spaces in Vegas- what to do to ensure proper color space conversions.
• Linear light processing in Vegas 8
• Color Spaces / Levels in Vegas 8 - (This information is outdated for Vegas 9.)
• Color Spaces / Levels in Vegas 9

Technical

• 7.5 IRE Setup Demystified
• Towards Better Chroma Subsampling - what's wrong with typical chroma subsampling and ways to improve it.
• Color Subsampling Techniques - (contains inaccuracies) this is an older article and a different look at color subsampling than the article above
• Effect of linear light processing on saturation
• "HD" versus "SD" color spaces
• (NEW) Composite video artifacts - what they are, how to deal with 'em
• (NEW) Some camcorder LCDs are wildly inaccurate
• (NEW) Superwhites - why they are a problem and why your field monitor may not be WYSIWYG.
• (NEW) Notes on wide gamut - wide gamut explained and my notes on it.
• (NEW) Signal processing in digital cameras notes. An overview of what goes on.

Other Websites

Color Correction Blog - For information on color science, color correction, and monitoring.

Broadcast Reference Monitors - articles on underlying concepts such as black level, as well as a guide to broadcast monitors on the market.

Photoshop Plugins

• Free Photoshop Plugins

• Colormancer - color enhancement and noise reduction tools for Adobe® Photoshop®. The filters work in both OS X and Windows XP/Vista, Photoshop CS2, CS3, Elements (certain versions), Irfanview, and Paint Shop Pro X2.

Final Cut Pro

• VASST Color Correction in Final Cut Pro review - a review of vol. 8 in VASST's FCP training series.
• Nattress Film Effects tutorial- color enhancement with Nattress Film Effects.

Red

• Redcine/Red Alert tips