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Colourcorrecting long light changing footage
Hi,
I got a little problem. A customer has long aerial footage (about 30-40 Minutes per Sequence) of a flight over a river. The sequences need to be in 1 piece realtime as well as timewarped. The colours are pretty messed up as well as the light changes with the sun wandering and position of the helicopter. Now they want the material to be levelled to an equal lightness and color-balance for the whole sequence.
Has anyone ever done such kind of work and which way is best? I can either animate the colourcorrection in Avid or AE, but I guess one will see the lightness pumping up and down over time if I do it by hand.
I never worked with the AE colour-stabilization and when I did I had strange results… would that be the way to go or is there something else to look for?
Thanks for any hints in advance,Karim
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1 Reply
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A colleague of mine had similar issues a while back. He does a lot of timelapse photography (using digital still cameras to provide very high-rez animations), and between shots you likewise get changes in exposure. On my advice he tried colour stabilization, but as you said in your case, it seems to do more weird things than good. I know in the end he was going to look at two third party plugin solutions, one being T-Deflicker (from the Foundry’s Tinderbox 1 collection) and secondly Film Fix from Red Giant. Both are not cheap options, Tinderbox being half the price of Film Fix though. I suggest you maybe download the demos of both plugins from their websites and give them a try on your footage. If one of them works well, and you can see yourself doing similar work in the future, the investment might be worthwhile. Sorry I have no other tips.
Goodluck and let us know how you get on.Cheers,
andrew
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