color correction of multiple clips

[Carlitos]

You mean at several clips at the same time?

The answer is no.

[Raine Parrish]

let me clarify- i have sveral clips in the sequence- a couple of them don’t look like the others- for whatever reason- the color is a little off- and i need to balance the clips so that as i cut- your eye doesn’t catch any blatant shifts in color balance.
is there a way, with the cuts on the timeline, to just move down the line, clip by clip, correcting the hue?
thanks
rp

[Norman Frizzle]

If I understand you correctly, rp, the answer is YES.

You only need to color correct one clip. Highlight each element of your color correction (if you are using more than one filter to do the job), select COPY command.

Next, select every other clip to which you intend to apply the same color correction, then use the PASTE command.

You should find the filter or filters, all with identical settings, on all your selected clips.

(Be careful you don’t include the original clip you used to copy from or the PASTE command will add a duplicate of the same filter or filters.)

[Raine Parrish]

thanks for reply. is there a way in premiere to actually view the values-some kind of graph- or do i just have to eyeball it. my concern is that – if i copy the filter adjustment- then paste it to a clip which is not exactly the same as the clip i copied- i end up in the same boat: clips that aren’t balanced. you know what i mean?
i’ve got 8 clips- all with varying degrees of color value.
rp

[Norman Frizzle]

Each filter relating to color correction will have its own features, and its own means of setting them. There are independant graphs and meters within PP X which you can use to compare one shot with the next

I personally tend to eyeball it.

[Norman Frizzle]

Sorry about the previous message, it was intended for another thread.

[Aanarav Sareen]

You can use the various scopes to make sure that the corrections are relatively the same.

[Raine Parrish]

thanks for reply- how do i access the scopes?
thanks again
rp

[Alex Udell]

Hi,

If you want to Color correct the srource master as opposed to color correcting each clip….

you can do the following:

1) Make a sequence and call it “base color correction”
2) Edit master clips to the seqeunce without marks.
3) Color Correct the clips as necessary

Now here is where it gets a little unconventional:

1) You actually need to make your source selects from this sequence.
2) Use the razor to split the clip at their in and out points
3) Select the clip, Copy
4) Go t your main sequence and Paste the clip.

This will paste the selected clip into yout timeline with the cc information.
I would use this as Opposed to nesting, beacause ppl have complained that PPro gets a litle sluggish with big nests.

Copy and past still references the original media directly.

I’d also reccomend this for Constant CC, not CC that is Keyframed.
Tha should really be dine on the main timeline duirng the finish.

But this method should keep you consistent during the rough cut.

Good luck…

Alex Udell
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[Raine Parrish]

thanks much for the great tip- i have a bunch of editing ahead of me- and need to establish a color correction pattern now- at the beginning.
thanks again
rp