AE6.5 Colour correction

[Chris Smith]

I take it the streets are red from the orange street lights. Are you going for the timelapse intervelometer look?

My first comment is, why not leave it? I’ve seen lots of timelapse with so many interesting colos in it. The green flos from the buildings, deep blue skies, red streets, etc..

Well first try primary color correction and see if you can find a compromise. When that doesn’t work then break out the selective color correction. In AE use the change to color tool or better yet, use keyers and manipulate the matte yourself to isolate the blues and the red and tweak them to something closer to what you seek. However if the streets are red from the street lights, there probably isn’t much data in the Green or Blue channels so you’re probably looking at a hue shift more than trying to balance out the reds to the greens and blues.

I’ll say it again. Adobe please give us a good color corrector built in to AE!! Build in Color Finesse so it works intuitively and give us power windows and easy presets to store and compare corrections. Geesh. 🙂

Rant over.

Chris Smith
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