ABSTRACT
With your picture lock edit and mixed soundtrack in hand, you are ready to take the lm across the nish line. The biggest creative decisions are now behind you, and many of the coming tasks are purely practical. There are however one or two signi cant areas where a director can still make more aesthetic and interpretive contributions to the lm. Finishing your lm includes:
Many NLE systems incorporate a standard color correction tool called a three-way color corrector . Using this, a lmmaker has the capacity to control color ( hue and saturation) and luminance ( brightness ) in three areas of the image-blacks, mid-range, and whites ( Figure 37-1 ). The threeway color corrector is not a super cial accessory but a powerful image correction tool. Color correction itself is used to accomplish four goals.
