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masked color correction
I have a shot where my skin tones are perfect but because of the nature of the shoot there is a window in the background, not behind my subject but over her shoulder, and the video luminance levels in the window are too bright. I know there is a way to do some sort of masked color correction where I reduce the light levels only on part of the picture, but I’m drawing a blank. If anyone can give me some step by step directions I’d be forever grateful!
Tom Landon
Lucky Dog Productions
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6 Replies
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Use Color. Go into the secondary room, create a vignette around the offending window, adjust. You could do something similar in After Effects if you wanted to.
Scott Davis
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Duplicate your clip on the track above (like V2), apply a garbage matte to the clip so that only the window is visible, then apply the color correction to that clip … so your V1 clip is uncorrected, but V2 is corrected.
JS
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I haven’t used the garbage matte filter before. Once I apply it to the V2 clip, how do I crop so it is only affecting the window? Thanks – I do want to try this before getting into Color, as suggested by another poster.
Tom Landon
Lucky Dog Productions
Roanoke, VA -
Garbage matte is a great filter … it’s the thing that does the cropping for you … you’ll have to play with it a bit … turn off the “eyeball” visibility on V1 so you can see the effect that the Garbage Matte is having on V2 … apply the filter to V2 … double-click the clip on V2 to load it in the viewer … click on filters tab of Viewer to see the parameters … click on the “+” for point 1 and then click on canvas at the corner of the window and drag the point to get the necessary cropping … repeat for the other points … you’ll get the idea …
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John Street
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awesome. thanks!
Tom Landon
Lucky Dog Productions
Roanoke, VA -
A quick and dirty that might also work is to use the limit effect capability in the 3 way CC and use the HSL key on the wiondow portion and then grade that.
It can work and is so much quicker than mucking around with mattes.
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