Happening again

[Chris Wright]

i see you got more modeling of light on the person. still couldn’t hurt to reflect a little more light on the face. a little goes a long way.
overall no blacks crushed, good. if I was being super picky, the one common mistake some graders make with saturation is adding pure chroma and no luma, which means that grass either needs more gamma or less saturation. it makes a slight pastel, chalky look. I hope I’m making sense. It’s a delicate balance. Also, it doesn’t help that premiere’s color engine sux. It pulls stuff towards yellow. I neutralize all my clips in premiere and actually use AE for master grading. I use templates that automate the balance of gamma and saturation for me using some funky math expressions. Using this technique, I can bring backs solid reds from old film where it has faded to 95% black and white. Did I toot my own horn too much? lol.

[Duke Sweden]

That “person” is ME!!! ???? Seriously who’d want to see more of that face? No, I didn’t do anything different, I actually just found a phenomenal LUT for Cinelike D (I’d sworn off LUT’s but I saw the before and after on the guy’s youtube video. Normally they don’t work anything like that on my own footage but this one does. You see the result).

I know exactly what you’re talking about as far as the saturation, but for the life of me I can NOT separate the colors to work on them. If I turn down the green the entire image gets reddish. If I boost blues, the whole image goes blue (I think I smell another tutorial in your future ???? )

So it’s really a case of I CAN’T fix that rather than purposely doing an amateurish grade. How do you add luma as opposed to chroma? I see a tool for that in DaVinci but that program won’t play nice with my computer. Speaking of which, Premiere Pro has become a MAJOR pain in the ass. I’m trying to edit my simplest green screen comedy yet and it’s just impossible now. It freezes, masks rotate as I’m trying to make them, eye dropper tool picks colors nowhere near where I’m picking, changes I make take like 15 seconds to apply. I’m on Windows 8.1.

Should I upgrade to 10? I hate the thought of the advertising but at this point using Premiere Pro has become a nightmare. And this all started when I swapped out my 720p LCD HDTV monitor for the 1080p LED HDTV monitor. Obviously there’s a tie in there but I can’t figure it out. Your opinion greatly valued.