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Color correction on tiff
We are trying to overlay a tiff file on a timeline in Premiere CS4 to hide a exit sign in a shot and the color between the video and the tiff are not matching up though the tiff was exported from the same video shot. When I apply color correction to the tiff file it is making the video footage match the tiff as opposed to making the tiff file match the video clip. What are we doing wrong? Is there a forum or tutorial anyone can recommend?
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3 Replies
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Well, color is a lot of learning but the first thing is that tiff and video (most kinds of video) have different color spaces, so yeah, it won’t look exactly right. I’d try an uncompressed format like BMP or the like for your screenshot of the sign.
Beyond that, you are on your own, like I said, color is a beast of a subject.
Tracy Peterson
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Ok I tried a bitmap file and had the same problem. I edited the bitmap in photoshop and even checked to make sure the color was set to RGB. When I brought it back into premiere the bitmap looks darker compared to our video. What’s even stranger is that when I apply a color correction effect to the bitmap on video layer 2 it make the video in layer 1 match the bitmap as opposed to making the bitmap match the video. I have to have the bitmap on layer 2 though because I am trying to hide the exit sign on layer 1. What should I try next?
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Huh, well, like I said, it’s a big topic and I can’t see why you would be applying a corrective filter to the bmp clip and it applies it to the clip underneath. That doesn’t make sense to me either so there’s not much I can say. How did you “edit” it in photoshop? Did you make an alpha channel? There’s stuff that’s missing from this explanation that make it hard to fix.
What should you try next? To do what? Hide a sign? Reshoot the shot without the sign, or cover it in shot. Use After Effects to remove it using roto and motion tracking, or learn to use the color correction filters.
Maybe someone else knows why the clip isn’t correcting properly. Maybe you can nest it in another sequence to make sure there is nothing else in the timeline when you apply the filter.
Tracy Peterson
http://www.onetwomany.com
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