color correction: matching shots

[Tom Wolsky]

There is a match hue function in CC 3-way which might help you in this circumstance if used carefully. It lets you pick a pixel color from one image and place it into another, adjusting the rest of the image based on that. I’d start with that, then luma and color adjust the second camera to the master camera. Then copy and paste those settings to all the other shots from the same cameras. Make sure you go through shot by shot as well. Small changes in angle and zoom can change the grading for the images.

All the best,

Tom

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[Andy Mees]

here are a couple of quick and easy tutorials for using the Match Hue function, Wolf

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/match_hue_fcp_5_balis.html
https://www.lafcpug.org/basic_color_balancing.html

[Rafael Amador]

As Tom suggest, you can try with the Match Hue tool. There is a good toutorial in the Ken Stone web-site:
Using Match Hue in FCP 5, By Andrew Balis.
Cheers
Rafael

[Rafael Amador]

You are really fast. How are you doing?
Rafael

[Jay Wolf]

Thanks for all your responses!

Wolf

G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2