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Colour correction snow footage [help]
Hello everyone.
I`ve got a problem with colout correction – I can`t get rid of the blue colour on bluish snowy footages.
I shoot outside so the sky is also present on the videos.
I`ve tried to play with Levels, Curves, Magic Bullet Looks but in the final result it looks like overexposed footage.Any minds how to make snow from blue to white?
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7 Replies
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Post a clip or still of your footage… it’s hard to give advice on visual issues without actually seeing the problem.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist -
How about first masking out the sky, and then simply de-saturating the remaining blues?
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Chris, there are a lot of video (about 4 hours). Sorry, but each masking isn`t solution for me.
Ted, I`ve attached file with the sample. Please check it.
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From the shot you posted it seems that Auto Color (under Color Correction)should do the trick. Not having a shot with sky in it is hard to estimate how that would look but I think you should be ok.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist -
One more thing- make sure you mention this to whomever shot this footage: manual white balance! This would’ve eliminated all the work you need to do in post to color correct the footage.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist -
Ted, basicly we shoot in “Snow” mode and
white balance is always different because we shoot in different places and different time.Auto Color is awesome! Thank you very much!
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Snow mode is not the best choice if you want your footage to look professional. White balancing for every location/light setup is the right way to go about this. It takes 20 seconds and it eliminates hours of post work.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
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