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Color Correcting an edited piece
I’m going to be doing a color correction project for a client who can only provide a finished piece to me – clean, with no graphics, at least (and hopefully not many dissolves). My thoughts on the project flow would be to roll through the piece, putting markers where the edits are, then using either Colorista or Magic Bullet Looks (not the presets, from scratch) on an Adjustment Layer for each clip. This would allow me to duplicate the Adjustment Layer correction for similar shots which will need the same treatment.
Since PPro CS6 doesn’t have any scene detection capability, I can’t think of an easier way to do this. I suppose I could keyframe my looks and apply that to the whole timeline, but keeping a visual track on that would be a nightmare, since it’s a 10 minute piece. Am I missing an easier way to do this? I’ve always done my own color correction on individual clips in Premiere or AE, but I don’t have the option this time.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Speedgrade has scene detection. If if you don’t want to grade with it, perhaps you could make use of it, and send the sequence back to Premiere.
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I agree with John. Use Speedgrade’s detction, save an EDL from Speedgrade and use that to reconnect within Premiere.
Be wary of using crossfades on adjustment layers as a way to cheat through the dissolves in the video, I recall there being a bug that causes renders/exports to crash. Not sure if it was ever fixed in a patch.
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Thanks to both of you – I’ve been watching some Speedgrade tutorials, and once you get past the interface, it doesn’t look all that different from any other 3 way color corrector; just more features. I’m going to test out that “dissolve bug” in adjustment layers before I try anything like that.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com
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