How to brightenin up skin colour in Final cut?

[Mark Suszko]

Go to the COW tutorials section, look for Rich Harrington’s tutorial on exactly how to do this. He walks you thru it step by step in the video, and more completely.

[Rishi Kumar]

I watched it and I did it for this clip but the brightness selection looks choppy…look at my clip (After 5 seconds I show the clip without any colour correction)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHkRNBiSM6s

anyone know how to fix this?

[David Roth weiss]

Define “choppy.” It looks 100 times better to me with the color correction, however, Youtube isn’t the finest way to judge.

BTW, the Cow has video capabilities that are far better than Youtube quality.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

[Rishi Kumar]

https://vimeo.com/8246375
I posted it on Vimeo I hope this is better…The brightness just doesnt look smooth, it kinda looks jaggity and it looks like something is moving on their skin :S

[David Roth weiss]

It does appear that the light source may be pulsating or flickering, but still tough to tell at the size and resolution of Web video.

Meanwhile, go to Sequence>>Settings and change the compressor to ProRes, and re-render. See if that helps at all.

Also, what is the original source, HDV or widescreen DV?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

[Rishi Kumar]

its not a flickering light, even though thats what it looks like…I tried changing the compressor settings…didnt help

btw this is widescreen Dv..

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[Rishi Kumar] “anyone know how to fix this?”

Slide the “Softness” slider in the Color Corrector farther to the right (softer.)

Then, re-render.