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oops..forgot the color correction…
New to all of this and FCP 5.0. I videotaped my daughter’s wedding(kicking and screaming) and forgot to reset the camera for outdoors from incandescent light (I typically do not use AWB because it’s too slow to respond). As a result all of the outdoor video is blue. Does anyone have some suggestions for color correction values using FCP 5.X? Any help at all is appreciated! Thanks in advance…
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Drop on the “Color Correction 3 Way Filter, and use the eye-droppers on the whites, mids, and blacks.
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What he means by that is apply the 3-way…then go to the 3 color wheels. Click on the little eyedropper to the lower right of the BRIGHTS color wheel…it should turn green. then click on an area of the picture that should be white…the bridal dress, for example. Then do the same for the blacks.
I have never done this with the mids.
Shane
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The Mids work on the “gray” areas.
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CC 3 way is a good free way to go, but if you like automatic then there is a plugin that works great, part of the grading sweet. Made by an australian guy and only 89.00 for the plugins. I use it all the time.
https://www.thegradingsweet.com/home.html
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the this is that in FCP there is so much overlap between the whites and the mids,
they are almost interchangeable.
adjust one, and the other comes with it.that;s why they invented “Colorista”
nick
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Thanks for the advice on my blunder!…I’ll try the free way first. Appreciate the help!
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Hey thanks! I’ll give this a try!
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If most of the outdoor footage looks the same (same blue color) a fast way to correct your entire sequence (get it close anyway) would be to correct one scene just the way you like it. Then select all of the other clips you’d like to correct and drop the filter from the first scene onto the others. All of your scenes will be corrected and be pretty close to normal. A little fine tuning and you will be good to go.
Tom
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