Color Correction? Need some help…

[J]

Here are a few good places to start:

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/onneweer_barend/colorgrading_1/index.html

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/vandueren_filip/color_timing/index.html

[J]

Also, be ready for long render times. I did color correction in After Effects for a film I worked on. The render times were about an hour per minute. Make sure you break your renders up be scenes! The files are large.

If you want to see the final results, here they are:

33mb
https://www.skeletonpix.com/Ropes_H264_320_15fps_02.zip

60 mb
https://www.skeletonpix.com/Ropes_H264_640_29.97_04.zip

[Chris Smith]

Well, you will want to isolate areas of each shot to color separately and then color the image as a whole.

For isolating areas:

Remove your spotlight. Duplicate your footage. On the duplicate, use a mask to isolate an area you want to change (like maybe add more “light” on the key person. Or maybe you want to darken the sky. Put a matte around the are want, then feather the matte a LOT. Now add your favorite color correction method here (like CF, or curves or a levels and hue/sat) Adjust them and you will see the area you isolated start to change. Be subtle because tweaking areas to extreme can become fake quickly.

Now add an adjustment layer over the two layers. Now color correct both layers together. First of all it looks like your balcks aren’t touching blacks. Use levels to bring in the blacks till they are are at RGB 0. Then move your gamma to the right to darken the image a bit. This will give a nice richer tone to the image.

Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com