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Tricks of the trade – Beyond Color Correction
Hello all,
I was hoping some of the veterans out there could describe any formulas they use to improve the image quality of the footage they edit. What tricks do you use to give your average video clip some umphf? I’ve been playing around with duplicating clips and blending them (Screen or Overlay) with a blur effect or reduced chroma, reducing opacity, etc. – all to greater or lessor success. My inspiration comes from a wedding production company called “StillMotion” up in Canada;
I learned of this site last week and the video they show is extremely impressive. The images they get out of their Canon XH-A1s are stunning and now having seen their footage I’ve been motivated to start working on finessing my own. I’d love to know if anyone out there knows how they get their “look” and/or I’d be curious to know what you all like to try in the footage-finessing realm.
Tim
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3 Replies
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Check out Joshua Smith. He uses an A1 and gets similar results
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It all starts with a good camera, good lighting and most of all, a skilled operator to run that camera. Start with that and the sky is the limit to what you can do.
Personally I can’t stand the Canon cameras, but that’s just me. I much prefer the Panasonic cameras over everything else and then Sony 2nd. The HVX-900 is my favorite camera to receive footage from.
After that it’s all just playing and tweaking. Color grants you the ability to do pretty much absolutely anything you can think of.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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Something important is to edit your 420 footage in a 422 sequence.
A filter like the Nattresss “Chroma Smooth/Sharpen” set before any color grading will really helps to improve the picture.
rafael
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