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color correction causing blurry video
Hello,
I have to adjust the color on one of my shots and no matter which color effect I use, when I render the video through my output monitor it is blurry. I tried applying the sharpening filter which helped with the blur, but it then made the video strobe slightly but noticably. I have tried all of the rendered video settings from 8 bit 4:2:2, to 10 bit 4:2:2, and the Blackmagic AVI that came with my decklink sp.(beta sp format).Please help, I am stuck between having either soft focus, strobing video, or a bad color balance!
Tom
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9 Replies
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Alright, not sure why it’s coming out blurry.
There is a setting on PPro for quality. Right click the montior and select the High Quality. If that was set to Auto or Low it will look soft, but export properly. (Hope that this is the problem…)
Try this work around. Please I hope you have After Effects.
In Premiere Pro:
1. Goto File>Dynamic Link> New
2. Copy the file that needs correcting.
3. Flip to AE as it would have opened itself.
4. Paste the clip in the project panel.
5. Colour correct it there.
6. Go back to PPro
7. select the clip in the timeline.
8. right click to replace. (bin = the selected clip in the project panel) it will replace with the AEp if that is still selected.
9. Hope that works.– Jon
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trying now…thx
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Holding alt while you click and drag the replacing clip ontop of the time clip also replaces it with all the fades, effects, etc.
Don’t know why I told you the long way
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It is a little better, but still not broadcast quality. I have the quality in the monitor set at highest and I am rendering at 10 bit 4:2:2 for ntsc 4×3. I’m not sure what else could be the problem here unless it is a hardware issue. I have plenty of memory on the scratch drive and 2gig or ram. I am usinig an intel core2 processor with windows vista 64 bit operating system.
Everything has been working great as long as I don’t need to render any intensive effects, dissolves work fine. Any ideas would be welcome, I have to turn this project tomorrow and I really need this color correction to work.
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Try exporting a frame comparison, export a frame of the no color correct and then apply it and export another frame same CTI position. Open then two frames in AE. Lie them on top of each other and apply the difference overlay to the top layer. You should see the difference in the hue, and if edge quality is different that will show it too.
Are you outputting with component (R G B dedicated channels) to your monitor?
– Render that clip out of AE and replace it in PPro.
– Could you see the difference in sharpness? when in AE?
What kind of footage are you using? Shot originally on Beta? HDV, DVCAM, DV? -
thanks, I had to get home so I’ll try this when I return in the morning…I’ll keep you posted!
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I suspect your concern may be a Black Magic issue. Try importing the clip into a Premiere DV or HDV project and use the Fast Color Corrector.
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importing the clip to a dv project and back worked, Thanks!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks for your help, I figured out what the problem was. I was capturing with mixed compression settings, render uncompressed and capture with the DV setting…I set up a new project with all DV settings from the start to finish and everything is working fine now.
Thanks again!
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