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Make sunny footage look overcast and cloudy
Hi there,
Don’t you just love getting footage you have no control over? I have 2 shots shot on two different days, one is sunny, clear sky and the other is overcast and partly cloudy. I would like to match the sunny shot to the overcast shot so the overall feel is cloudy. What would be the best way to go about this?
Thanks,
Tyler -
7 Replies
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You can make a mask of the sunny sky and lay in the cloudy sky.
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This is easily achieved in Color if you have FC Studio 2. You can use vignettes in the Secondary Rooms to go in and grab multiple areas of the sky and color them to match the overcast shot.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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I’m sorry, i should have explained this better. The shots that i am fixing aren’t of the sky, they aren’t even in the shots. So my main concern is color correcting the sunny footage to look like it was shot on a partly cloudy day. I’m just looking for some tips on how to achieve this and possibly a good combination of filters to get it done.
Thanks
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[Tyler Merkel] “I’m sorry, i should have explained this better. The shots that i am fixing aren’t of the sky, they aren’t even in the shots. So my main concern is color correcting the sunny footage to look like it was shot on a partly cloudy day. I’m just looking for some tips on how to achieve this and possibly a good combination of filters to get it done.
“Again, Color makes all of this very easy if you have Studio 2.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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In very rough terms, cloudy days are ‘cooler’ in colour terms, and sunny days are ‘warmer’ – doh!
Apply the 3-Way Color Corrector in FCP to the effects menu.
In the 3 way colour corrector, start by moving the mid ‘trackball’ towards the blue to make it cooler (and towards the yellow to make it warmer). Match the whites on both by using the eye-dropper next to the whites (right-hand trackball) on some white in the picture, and fine tune by eye. You will then have to adjust the gamma (mid-lift) of the sunnier shot to make it a lower – drag the slider underneath the centre trackball to the left to do this.
If this is not a critical shot and is as you describe (without an extreme difference in lighting), I doubt you will have to resort to more advanced correction (although you can do the same in Color with more control if you’re familiar with it).
A ‘better’ version of the FCP 3-way colour corrector is Magic Bullet’s Colorista.
Hope that helps – CC 101!
Ben
Edit Out Ltd
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FCP Editor/Trainer/System Consultant
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Thanks for the advice everyone, unfortunately I am fairly unfamiliar with Color so I was hoping to not to resort to that for this quick and dirty assignment. But i will certainly begin by journey into using color more often.
Thanks again!
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Tyler – you won’t need Color for this – just use the 3 way color corrector as I described above.
Ben
Edit Out Ltd
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FCP Editor/Trainer/System Consultant
EVS/VT Supervisor for live broadcast
RED camera transfer/post
Independent Director/Producer
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