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Masked Colour Correction
Hi,
I’m using Media Composer 3 and have a question about colour correction. When shooting, we used ND filters that changed certain parts of the image brown. Most significantly, the costumes of our leads have gone from green to brown and from blue to very dark.
Please correct me if I’m wrong but I am thinking that a masked colour correction would be the best way to fix this problem. By this I mean drawing a mask within which I can select a certain midtone to be changed. (ie from brown back to green)
When simply matching colour and replacing in the colour correction toolset skin tones, hair and some background changed colour too dramaticaly.
My question is, if this is the best way to go about a solution, which program or plug-in should I use to do this? I have ‘After Effects’ but cant use it very well yet, the ‘Magic Bullet’ plug-in for Avid and ‘Color’.
Any help would be much appriciated.
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2 Replies
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You could duplicate the track, then apply color correction to correct to the right colors, then add the annimatte filter and keyframe masks….this would allow the color correction to only be applied inside the masked area…I have done this on my Symphony to color correct someone’s teeth….It came out beautifully.
you could also try the BCC filter, “Correct selected” and see if that would allow to correct just the area you need.
Mark
Mark Harvey
Senior Editor
Le Réseau des sports -
you can use spot color but I like to throw it on a second layer and nest an animatte effect as I have more controls. I like to color correct with genarts sapphire’s film effect so I gravitate this way.
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