Color corrections keyframing

[Craig Seeman]

Mattes, yes, colors, apparently not.

[Maciek Kawalski]

I am sorry, but I didn’t quite catch your meaning.

[Craig Seeman]

Mattes/masks can be keyframed. Color settings themselves can’t as far as I can see. You can’t change colors over time.

[Robbert-jan Van der does]

Workaround:
Use the blade tool to split the clip. Apply the color correction you want to the first part of the clip. Aply another color correction to the second part of the clip. Apply a cross dissolve between the two parts and adjust the length of the dissolve to taste.

Kind regards,

Robbert-Jan van der Does
lighting cameraman/steadicam operator/editor

WISIWYG (What I See Is What You Get)

[Maciek Kawalski]

A cunning way!
Thank you for you answers.

[Andy Nickless]

Such a good workaround – thanks for that.
Andy

I’ve taught you all I know, and still you know nothing.

[Jon Leopold]

You can keyframe hue, saturation, value, and intensity. I know that’s a bit different than the actual colour correcting tool (in which you would use the technique described by someone else in this post (split/adjust/cross dissolve) .

In the Effects tab, under Basics, Hue/Saturation (drag it onto your clip). The adjustment should appear in the top right panel (whatever that’s called?) where you can do keyframing and adjusting of effects.

Thanks very much… High School Media Teacher, multiple Macs (tiger and snow leopard- mac pros, imacs, emacs) and PCs

[Alex Xela]

Robbert-Jan van der Does,

this does not work for me since I am using stabilization and the clips re-stabilize when I cut them. I guess I’m SOL.

Alex

[Robbert-jan Van der does]

Hi Alex,

Maybe it is possible to select the stabilized clip and then make it a new compound clip. If you then cut that clip and apply a different color correction to both parts and apply a crossfade?
I’m not behind a Mac where I can try this, but I think it might work.

good luck,
Robbert-Jan

[Bryan Harris]

Find the clip you need to adjust and reveal in event browser (shift F). Take the clip from the event browser and lay it on the next video track over the original in sync. Effectively you have over-layed the same clip on itself. Now set colour change extremes in one clip, then the other. Use opacity keyframing to switch from one to the other.
I worked this out when needing to exposure grade across a shot with auto exposure hunting.