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Colour Correction
I’m grading some footage and have noticed some of the colours are starting to break up a bit and become flicky. I’m using AE Colour Balance and Levels.
I always use the 16,235,0,16,235 Levels set to make sure everything is colour safe but I’m wondering if there is some way to ensure you don’t push the colours past their breaking point. My footage is shot on DIGI BETA this time but this situation comes up quite often with DV. Is this just an eyeball test or is there an AE vectorscope for this kinda thing like in a Flame or Da Vinci.
Cheers
Danny
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3 Replies
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Scopo Gigio (Do a google search) is a waveform-vector combo that works within After Effects. It is fairly priced and works well.
Mark
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Thanks Mark. Will check out
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also you might want to make to try rendering your footage in 16-bit colour space instead of the standard 8-bit…By default AE uses 8-bit, but there is a simple way to switch it over….it might get rid of the posturization that you’re encountering (it’ll smooth out some of the gradients between colours) In your project viewer (the one where all your footage and comps are) you’ll see at the bottom next to the trash can icon it says “8bpc” …ALT-click on it and it should change your comp into a 16-bit colourspace…be warned though, this will seriously increase your render time!
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