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extreme color correction
I have been given some neon orange footage – it looks like it was filmed through orange cellophane. I’m editing with CCPremierePro, using lumetri color, color balance, and fast color corrector. Nothing looks quite right. What can I do to even things out and try to rescue the footage?
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How about posting a screenshot?
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Have you tried to white balance off the light coming from the window behind her right shoulder, and pushing the sliders in lumetri towards blue and green?
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On second thought never mind. I just tried and that orange/yellow just won’t let go. But don’t get discouraged. I’m just a moron. I’m sure someone who does color correction for a living will be along to help soon.
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Guess it depends on the color corrector. I was able to do this with COLORISTA 2, by pushing the sliders towards the blue/green. The regular 3-way did NOT handle this same correction well. Might also give RESOLVE a whirl at this.
Shane
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I used Lumetri (with the new HSL feature). I actually had it close to your result for a moment, but then suddenly the yellows took over again.
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I went back and did it again. Only used lumetri after adding a great input LUT for G7’s called G7 to BMCC. It works great on my G7 footage and it did a great job here, muting all the colors and making it easier to color correct.
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haha, I’ve tried white balancing off of everything from buttons to teeth!
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btw, you can get the LUT here. It’s free:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PanasonicG7/comments/3xyvdk/g7_cined_to_bm4k_lut_beta/Also wanted to point out I didn’t do all I could to color correct in the sample above. There’s still a lot of room to improve the final result, i.e. curves, etc.
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The highlights look really rough so a simple LUT won’t fix this. One would need to figure out how much the footage can be corrected without introducing more weird colors. Also if this would be some super serious job then one might do an overall correction and use secondaries to finesse small details.
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