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color corrections
Hi.
I”m trying to fix the colors of a performance I have on DV. The cameraman screwup the white balance and the image has too much red. I have never done this myself therefore I would like to ask all of you for a sugestions. Do you know a link or anything that will help me acomplish this task without having to go to school for 3 years or something like that? I have a G4 with FCP3, external harddrive, and I’m using my TV. I was playing with the 3 way color correction filter and trying some things with saturation and mid range but it seems like I could use some help.
The movie I have is all in one shot as it was taken from a live dance performance. When color correcting do you cut up the movie in parts so that you can manipulate the diferent section of the movie depending of the lightning? or how? I”m just basicaly trying to make the colors a little better since the white balance was off.
Thanks a lot. to all
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5 Replies
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Thanks Ross. I had seen that link. My case is one shot and many drastic light changes (theater lights). When I fix one part it affets the whole movie. Should I cut it up in pieces? don’t know. there is so much that this link don’t say.
Thanks again.
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If you find a shot that looks natural in the preformance, where you have good skin tones, but still needs a little corection (say too blue) then make that corection and aply that corection to the whole film so that you have “balanced to normal”. But, if the intent of the lighting is to be “colorful” so I would leave it as it was shot. If you realy must corect the whole thing then do so. If the changes in light happen over a few frames or a “logical” cut then use the razor blade and make a cut. If it happens gradually over time, then you have to Keyframe the color correction (this is a real pain). I once shot a play out doors as the sun set and had to pull CC over an hour broadcast.
Adam
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If there are distinct changes in lighting set ups/color correction in distinct scenes, you may want to try razor blading and correcting each section, and instead of keyframing, you could add long (2-6 second) dissolves between the shots, which should smoothly mix the color correction from scene to the next – and since the dissolves will be over the original cuts, they will be invisible.
Wayne
2DP G5, 3.5GB RAM, FCP HD
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to me it sounds like a question of what do you want? I would balance it to normal in a faily natural lighting (give it a bit blue if it’s too warm) an keep one coulor correction over the whole shot. Otherwise you interfere with the lighting show. The result can look awful, you may waste a lot of time to come to the decision: leave it as it was.
Rainer
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