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3 way colour correction
Hi I am new to Creative cow and have just watched the excellent Final Cut tutorial by Richard Harrington on the common problem of backlighting using the three way colour corrector. I followed his tutorial exactly, duplicating the colour corrector and changing the background and sky independently and the dull clip was transformed into bright colours with a blue sky now instead of the original grey/white sky. Brilliant I thought. I rendered the clip but when I played it I found where it fades in and fades out, the light blue sky slowly darkens with the fade from the light baby blue I created to a violet blue. How can I get the whole clip to fade out as it should with the blue sky getting lighter rather than darker.
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When fading to black how can you expect any colors to become brighter?
However, maybe there’s something going on that’s just not easy to explain, so I would suggest that you learn to post video clips using the excellent tools here on Cow so we can see what you’re talking about.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Thank you David, I don’t think I explained that very well but it seems instead of the sky colour fading out as you would expect i.e. the same colour becoming less as it fades to black, it sort of changes hue as it fades.
Being new to creative cow I didn’t realise you had a facility for sending video. I will certainly check it out. Many thanks for your prompt reply. – To be honest I am amazed to get a reply at all as I have posted questions on other sites before and never ever had any sort of help or acknowledgement. – Ever! I’m chuffed to bits as we say here in the U.K. – a reply all the way from Los Angeles. Maybe there’s an internet god after all !!!brian paterson
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Welcome to “the Cow” Brian. Stay tuned to this forum often and you’ll find your questions are answered pretty quickly, almost round the clock, as we have a very international group here, and there is always someone awake somewhere who’ll be happy to help you.
If you look above the reply window you’ll notice an icon that looks like a motion picture camera and another that looks like a circle with a matador hat hovering over it. Those are the two ways you can send samples, either video or a still so we can see what you’re talking about. Remember a picture is worth a thousand words, so taking the time to show us will save lots of words for more useful purposes.
All the best,
DavidDavid Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Sorry… where can I find this tutorial ? Thanks
siRoma di Marcello Mazzilli
Corporate video productions in Italy
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Hi Marcello,
Click on the “final cut tutorials” button ( at the top of the page)
It will bring up a lot of useful stuff.Regards
BRIANbrian paterson
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Sometimes with layered effects, weirdness happens on fade outs. An easy solution is to place a black slug on top of your footage at the end and keyframe it from 0 to 100 opacity for however long you want the transition to be. Hopefully that might be helpful.
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