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Color and levels correction advice required
Hi!
I have to restore an old video material and in this case colors and levels are really bad. As you will see on the consequently taken sample images, colors are changing as the sun goes down and that makes it even more difficult. I can do simple color correction, but I feel I cannot get it quite right with this video. Same goes to levels. I often use Sony Levels effect, but in this case it seems insufficient. The main thing is to make the speaker look as good as possible. Increasing gamma on the first sample makes him look better but at the same time colors will start looking bleached out. Can I brighten the person on the frame in some other way, not touching the background? Color curves are a recommended filter but it’s difficult for me to get hold of it.My point is that if you can give some good experienced advice of how would you correct those frames using Vegas or third party filters, I would really appreciate that. Please try to correct them and let me know how did you do that.
Thank you!
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9 Replies
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Too far gone.
VHS; back light; little if no front illumination and clothing and skin tones are getting similar. Now, you may just want to take an artistic approach and either “blow” the background or give the “talent” it’s own vignette mask.
You have the Perfect Storm!
G
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
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O…K… How about this?:-
I’ve also “masked” that awful Street Lamp with Window Frame of the next window.
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge -
Not bad.
How did you masked the lamp, nice technique!
I would not mask the background since the client wants it as authentic as possible.
Can you brighten the talent without touching the background? Selective cookie cutter???
Looks like I have to correct the colors separately, I mean high/mid/low tones. And they are not stable during the video.
I would like to have some advanced filter to do it all (or some) automatically, some kind of intelligent color correction, but probably there is not such a thing yet.
Well, in any case I have to do it.
Here is what I did with Sony Levels only:
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[Jaanus Henno] “How did you masked the lamp, nice technique!”
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Have a look at the VEG I’ve attached.
Cheers
Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge -
I would use color curves in this case since the subject is clearly a much darker tone than the rest of the image. The trick is in determining where the right tones are located on the curve. I determine this by making a snapshot which I then load into Photoshop. Photoshop has a curves function which will quickly tell me where on the curve a particular tone is located.
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I like your idea Bob.
Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge -
Thanks Graham for the veggie, I’m in the process of figuring it out…;-)
As far as Bob’s advice, I knew this it the effect I need, but I couldn’t really understand how to use it as explained. Can you please give more detailed instructions?
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I suggest looking for a tutorial which explains how to use curves.
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thank you, color curves gives indeed a better result.
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