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color adjustment – different light situations
hey pros!
i shot several videos under different light circumstances. thus, some shots are brighter/darker than others. is there a “normalize color” function just like the “normalize audio” function in soundtrack? so all my shots have the same smooth brightness? if not… i assume i have to correct the brightness for every shot individually. how would i do that? color correction video filter?
thanks a bunch!
MARIE -
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You need to color correct, yes. Use your video scopes and try to match the tonal range of your shots across the shadows/blacks, midtones, and highlights/whites. White & black balance so your whites are white and blacks are black. Increase levels and saturation where needed. Color is the appropriate app for this, but FCP color corrector 3-way will do just fine.
“The deepest blues are black” – Foo Fighters
(this doesn’t help me when I’m chroma keying!) -
thanks jason! /back to work then 🙂
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Grading is like audio mixing. It’s about matching but also and setting creative levels. Normalising audio doesn’t do anything other than set the maximum peak loudness. It isn’t mixing and similarly grading shouldn’t be an automated process.
If you use the FCP 3 way CC filter, it has an auto balance button. Use it an see why it is as useless as normalising.
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