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Help with Color Correction Day/Night
Hey guys, I’m fairly new to FCP and my experience never dealt with color correction…until now. I shot some footage on DV and needless to say, it didn’t come out all that well. When we began shooting one particular scene, it was about 3 in the afternoon; when we finished it was about 5 o’clock. As a result, the footage progressively gets darker and darker.
So my question is, how can I match the look of the darker footage with that of the footage shot in better light? Here are links to two pictures, one is how the footage looks in the beginning, and the other how the footage looks towards the end of our shooting:
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a60/kyle803/Day.jpg
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a60/kyle803/Night.jpgIf anyone can help me out and tell me how I could go about correcting the footage to make the clips look similar in regards to time of day, I’d greatly appreciate it. The scene takes place during the late afternoon or early evening, so I’m for either just lightening up the darker shots, or slightly darkening the lighter shot as well as lightening the darker shots to achieve a middle-ground, so to speak….I want to do whatever looks best and avoid having the footage look fake and washed out.
(Note: I also have After Effects 6.5 and posted this in that forum as well, since I’m not sure which program will give me better results)
Thanks in advance for any advice, I really appreciate it.
– Kyle
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2 Replies
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Kyle,
There’s no way you will ever be able to make these two scenes look alike. No matter what you do to color correct, the street lights in the dark scenes will be a dead give away. You really have only two choices, don’t sweat it, and hope your story is compelling enough to save the day, or reshoot.
DRW
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Yeah, I realized that so I’m just going to reshoot it. Thanks.
– Kyle
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