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Adjusting colors (filmed on a cloudy day)
What filter would you recommend using to adjust colors in a clip filmed on a really grey cloudy spring day.
I wan the colors more visid but when using Hue saturation for instance it just looks generic.I just want to boost the colors a little bit but not satuarating them too much : )
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Hi Andreas,
you could tweek your colours using the curves filter, or if you have version 6.5 pro use the colour finnese filter for total control
Angus
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Im on 6.5 but can’t find the finnese filter is it standard?
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It’s on your cd, but isn’t installed by default.
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Color Finesse is one of the best features of getting 6.5. I’d definitely install it.
If you actually filmed your footage, you’d get better results by having your transfer colorist do the work.
But if you “filmed” it on video tape, I’d use CF then. Cloudy days kill your contrast. Increasing your contrast inherently increases your saturation.
So before cranking up your saturation which almost always is a bad choice, use the levels in CF (or AE levels or curves) to crush down your blacks a little and to bring up the whites until the brighter elements in the shot just start to clip. Then adjust your gamma a little darker to make up for the brighter whites. At this point you should’ve helped bring the contrast back in your image and at the same time the colors should definitely look more saturated.
Depending on how much contrast you added back in, you may even need to drop the saturation.
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com
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