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Colorista clarification
Stu M. wrote:
“In Colorista, overall color bias is done using the Gain wheel (on the right), and it leaves the luminance largely unchanged.”I take that as meaning that neutralizing a color cast for improperly white balanced footage should be done with the Gain Wheel.
Is that right?
For some Reason I thought that had to usually be done in the Mids.
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I forgot to add something else.
or does he mean for grading footage into a “look” like the green tint in the matrix trilogy.
or does he mean both?
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That is the same than in the FC 3W CC, the white balance is done in the Gain and do not affect the luminace at all. When possible you could do three diferent balances: Black, mids and whites, each in his correspondient wheel.
Rafael -
an overall color cast though from an unbalanced camera.
that would seem to be mostly in the mids wouldn’t it?
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No Borjis. You may need to touch a little the mids and the lows too, but first you tweak the gain.
In the FC 3W you can make black balance, gray balance an white balance. Each of them are in the black, middle and high wheels.
The white balance is done in the “high” wheel (in the left) and affect the high luminance pixels, but also affect the top part of the middles because there is a ceratin overlaping in between the three bands.
The same that if you touch the blacks, this will affect the low portion of the middles. And if you touch the middles this will change a little the low portion of the whites and the top of the blacks.
Just make a little experiment. Put in the time-line a gradient (from black to white) and drop the 3W-CC. Them play a little with the three color wheels. You will see how each of the wheels affect to the middles, grays and whites.
rafael -
[Borjis] “an overall color cast though from an unbalanced camera.
that would seem to be mostly in the mids wouldn’t it?”
Not in my experience. That would be corrected in the highlights.
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[walter biscardi] “Not in my experience. That would be corrected in the highlights.”
very interesting.
I’m pretty well versed on the procedure for balancing the contrast, but the color cast had me doubting myself.
Thanks very much for the assistance. 🙂
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