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Dark Knight Color Grading Tips
Greetings, everybody.
I’m going to be editing/grading a video next week that needs to look an awful lot like the interrogation scene from the Dark Knight. Any tips for color grading?
For a reference. Here is the scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPuToZT0vfY
Thanks.
Louie Benson
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Obviously the ColorFinesse plug-in is much more powerful than the basic color correction effect in CS3.
But here’s something that I have found works great sometimes. Try the Match Color effect. Use a still from the Dark Knight and put it on the timeline. Place the Match Color effect on the footage you want to grade, and twirl the dropdown box to RGB. (I think HSL is default.) Forget about master, just use the eyedroppers to choose samples of the higlights, midtones and (shadows?). Now hover the CTI over the Dark Knight sample pic without deselecting your footage, and use the eyedroppers to select the “to” samples of higlights, midtones and shadows. Press the presto-change-o button and see how it looks by moving the cti back over the footage. As a tip, just make sure the values of the “to” and “from” samples are of similar luminance level.
I’m not at my editing rig right now, so I’m kinda winging the PPro vernacular. Hopefully you can get the gist of what I’m writing. If not let me know and I’ll give you more exact details later.
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