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Dealing with red video
This has to be something comes up a lot. I did a quick search, but am lost in a sea of irrelevant results.
I forget the technical reasons why, but red is the worst color for video, and now I’m looking at a project where red was used in a thematic way, and is coming out looking very video-y and digital. What does everyone use to tone down their reds?
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[sadrabbit] “What does everyone use to tone down their reds?”
Color-corrector filter, Broadcast Safe filter, and an experienced producer and director of photography.
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[Matte] “Color-corrector filter, Broadcast Safe filter, and an experienced producer and director of photography.”
Okay, so there’s the getting the reds down, and then there’s the flat, pixellized look that remains because of a loss of resolution when you’re peaking in that color. It’s like we need just a little bit of automated blurring in those “hot” regions. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Broadcast Safe does that. Is there something that will, or some other ingenious approach that will help with the second part?
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Use the Chroma Smoothing filter (video effects -keying) in the menu. Choose 4:1:1 if it is in fact DV video. You be best served to change your timeline settings from Dv to DV50. Everything will need to be rendered out most likely for you final product. The stair stepping is due to lack of chroma information – that’s just DV – DV50 can handle chroma at 4:2:2 so the combination of the out lined will work better if you can handle DV50 vs DV. The Chroma Smoothing on it’s own may be the trick you need. Try it out though and see.
Mike
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