Mapping Pixels (White Balance?)

[Edward Troxel]

Use the color corrector. A quick and dirty way:

Click on the “high” complimentary color eyedropper and choose something that should be white.

Click on the “low” complimentary color eyedropper and choose something that should be black.

Click on the “mid” complimentary color eyedropper and choose something that should be grayish.

Now fine-tune as needed.

Edward Troxel

[Daniel Thornton]

Is there a way to color match two shots of the same scene from different cameras. One camera was white balanced correctly, the other was not.

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[Edward Troxel]

Use the Split Screen tool. You can copy a frame from the “good” camera to the clipboard and the split between the clipboard and the “bad” camera. It’s the button that a circle that’s half dark and half light just above the preview screen. There’s a drop-down arrow to pick the desired mode.

Edward Troxel

[Daniel Thornton]

Thanks,I can see both clips and can switch between them. Now, how do I transfer the correct color to the bad clip. Is there a tutorial anywhere that explains this. I did a search on the internet but didn’t find anything.

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[Edward Troxel]

[Daniel Thornton] “Now, how do I transfer the correct color to the bad clip.”

Not sure I’m following this. You would be adjusting the bad clip to begin with.

Edward Troxel

[Daniel Thornton]

Thanks again for the help. I miss understood how to color correct a clip. I thought that you could read the color values from the good clip and type these values in the bad clip to adjust the clip. I understand now that you use the color correcting tools in vegas to match one clip to the other by eye, adjusting the sliders until they match.

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