How do I color correct just the top third of a clip without making another track?

Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

How do I color correct just the top third of a clip without making another track?

Posted by Elijah Lynn on March 18, 2009 at 2:57 am

My main problem is that Primatte Keyer is so slow and I am keying 1080P HD twice.

I havesome greenscreen footage and the head was dark and the white coat was bright(doctor). I put the clip on the timeline and a primatte keyer pro filter on it and made it a alpha travel matte. Below that I created a mask for the top third. Then below that I made a copy of the clip and again a primatte keyer pro filter on it.

These 2 minute clips are taking 8 hours to render on my 8 core 3.2 Ghz (Primatte only uses 1 core). I just did a 4 minute clip and I am getting 17 hour render time! It finally got me thinking there may be a better way to color correct just one section of a clip without having to duplicate it.

Any ideas?

Elijah Lynn replied 17 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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Miklos Philips
March 18, 2009 at 2:59 am

Apple COLOR and use masks

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Rafael Amador
March 18, 2009 at 5:21 am

Hi Elijah,
Inside FC and without duplicating layers I think that Colorista and ColorFinesse are the two available options.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

(and here some clips for the friends: https://www.vimeo.com/2694745 )

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Elijah Lynn
March 18, 2009 at 2:46 pm

I haven’t even delved into Color yet. Is this easy to explain in a few steps the basic concept of doing that?
Elijah Lynn
March 18, 2009 at 2:48 pm

Thanks Rafael. I will look into those as options.

It does seem that so far I am at least not looking over something blatantly obvious.
Rafael Amador
March 18, 2009 at 3:28 pm

Hi Elijah,
Have a look here;
https://celluloidhope.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/plug-it-in/
Download the Haiku plugins (Marcus plugins).
There is one call “Face light” that may help you.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

(and here some clips for the friends: https://www.vimeo.com/2694745 )

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Elijah Lynn
March 18, 2009 at 7:30 pm

Brilliant!!!
Facelight is a sweet plugin and does exactly what I need!

Thanks Rafael!
Elijah Lynn
March 18, 2009 at 8:04 pm

Ok, I just patched up the whole clip and now my render time is slashed in half!

This taught me a lesson and I will make sure to shoot the right way next time! It was tough with this camera because I had to shoot it on a HF10 with no full manual control plus the HF10’s LCD screen is a big fat lier! Everything looks so great on it when you are shooting.

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