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caveats about using auto color tool?
I have a number of clips shot on mini-DV that I’m editing in PPro 1.5. The color was slightly off in a few of them because of lighting issues beyond my control. I applied the “auto color” tool and it significantly improved the look of the clips. I’d like to apply it to all the clips in this section, but am concerned about possible “side effects” of doing this. I’ll be exporting this production for DVD authoring. Are there any drawbacks to using (or overusing) this tool (e.g. fuzzy, grainy, distortion, etc) that wd show up in the final DVD product that anyone knows of?
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There “really” shouldn’t be any side effects of using the effect frequently. But if the color and lighting of a particular clip are drastically off, then you might see some negative effects. However, if I am not mistaken one of the Auto effects has a bug in PPRO (ie: while rendering PPRO crashes). Let me research a little bit and get back to you
Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certified Expert, Premiere Pro
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The Auto Color feature works fine on stills, but unless your scene is locked down with no movement, the frame to frame application will vary causing flickering of the luminance…suggest previewing the entire rendered clip and not assuming it all looks fine.
I use the Levels effect instead. -
Thanks to both of you for your feedback, and, thankfully, I haven’t experienced any crashing issues.
In the end, I applied the auto color and color correction filters to the worst offenders and then took the suggestion of someone on another forum of applying the auto contrast filter to those clips that were already okay, but to really make them “pop,” which it did, without the potential instability across frames of the auto color filter.
Ironically, on the clips with the auto color and color correction, there are no discernible ill effects after rendering them in preview, but a couple of the clips with the auto contrast do have the background flickering in some places, so I’m going to need to take it off, after all. Auto levels, which I’m a big fan of in Photoshop, didn’t give me the right look.
Thanks again for the feedback guys–
Ruby
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