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How to color correct multiple shots in the best way possible
I really want to know how to get the best result when color correcting multiple shots. Should i color correct shot by shot? If i do that will the shots look different?Should i put a sequence layer and then color correct it? What is the best way?
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Dave, that’s not really fair. I mean, you can shoot with two different cameras and they’ll look different, you can’t always control that. And shoot in the AM, and then the afternoon, and they’ll look different.
Color correction is done shot by shot. If you happen to have one shot that’s the same, you can apply the same correction to that shot. And if you have two cameras that look different, then you need to do fiddling to make them match. HOW? That’s a looooong topic, as that’s the real trick around color correction. First off being able to read a scope like the Histogram will allow you to balanced shots without even looking at them.
This video is a great start…
Shane
Little Frog Post
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Aldrigt thanks. About color grading what is the best way to color grade? Shot by shot? Sequence layer? Is there another way?
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Color correction and color grading are two different terms for the exact same task. Color correction/grading can be technical and/or creative. Technical is matching shots and cameras to each other and getting a good overall balance. Creative is adding a distinctive and subjective look, like taking something that’s neutral and making it look like it was shot late in the day. All of these functions are best done shot-by-shot.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Christopher Khouri] “what is the best way to color grade? Shot by shot? Sequence layer?”
Shot by shot…as each shot will differ. Unless you have a sequence that’s two angles that cut back and forth…then you color one angle, then the other…and then apply that grade to all the same shots in the sequence. So grade clip A and then Clip B…and then apply the A grade to all the A clips, and the B grade to all the B clips. If you did a sequence layer, and shots A and B were different and needed different tweaking, then you wouldn’t be able to get it just right. Shot by shot.
[Christopher Khouri] “Is there another way?”
Not really.
Shane
Little Frog Post
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[Shane Ross] “So grade clip A and then Clip B…and then apply the A grade to all the A clips, and the B grade to all the B clips.”
The Lumetri Color tool allows you to do source-based grades, similar to Avid Symphony. Grade the first A clip on the source side and this correction will automatically be applied to all instances of this source file in the timeline. Same for the other shot.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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I’d suggest downloading Resolve and training with that.
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I had no idea about source-based color grading. Wow, that’s going to save me so much hassle!
Do I have to save it as a preset to apply a look to a master clip or is there a simpler way?I’m really struggling with color grading since Speedgrade went away…
Nathan McAlpine
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These links might help.
https://nofilmschool.com/2015/08/how-grade-shot-start-finish-new-lumetri-color-panel-premiere-pro
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/master-clip-effects.html
https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/a-deeper-dive-into-lumetri-color/
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
why is it that no video talk about overall hue angle? you need to be able to adjust hue globally to line up white balance in the scopes on the skin tone line. no video even touches this…and its baaassiiccc.
2015.2 had fast color corrector hue and 2015.4 had a global hue one but they removed that “update”. anyone?if I have many different shots that don’t match, I neutralize everything to the scopes first. This way I’m not doing eyeball replicative fading from shot to shot or trying to match shots to each other. After all shots are neutralized, I plop a final creative grade in an adjustment layer, and bam! I’m done. No clip matching whatsoever!
neutralize clips by scopes only:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/394/32#35
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