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White Balance
I have two pieces of footage from the same physical outdoor setting, a canyon. In one I used the indoor white balance setting to get a blue image and it looks great. the other was made without the indoor white balance setting and looks normal. I want to match it to the blue one. I have tried the 3 way color corrector but haven’t been able to get something that’s a good match and i’m rather inexperienced with it to begin with. Any suggestions?
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The opposite of blue is yellow so if you want more blue you need to take out yellow and add blue; however I wouldn’t use the 3 way for this, I’d take it into colour and use the primary room to do this.
It’s not that complicated and you’ll get much better results
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Thanks….also have some footage from the same shoot that was shot after dark….what’s the best way to lighten or darken to pieces of footage so that they match in brightness?
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Mm, depends how dark, the problem with light is if the information is there, then you’ll get a realistic looking lighten or darken, if not you won’t.
But again you want to do this in colour in the primary room, next to your colour wheels are three sliders, the black & white ones on the outside are for light.
The colour wheel on your left is for your low lights, the middle mid tones and the right high lights, the closer your low lights are to 0% on the luma graph in your left window the closer to black you’ll have.
But as I said if it was too dark when you shot the footage, then it’s just going to look a bit greyish if you lighten it up too much, going from dark to light is going to be easier, or rather will probably look better.
If you need more detailed help with Colour, go to the Colour forum, check out some of the free tutorials that you get on here, there are some great little tips, well worth watching.
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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
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1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
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I found an easy answer for the light and dark problem….which requires almost no work….just clone and copy a clip above the original and with the new clip selected go to modify > composite > add and suddenly your project is lighter but has the same quality….you can use opacity to adjust the brightness and make another copy if u want it still brighter….use subtract to make the file darker…
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