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Andrea Oppong
June 24, 2012 at 2:11 pm in reply to: How to match sunlight indoors with florescent?

Argh… yeah. Next time, controlled lighting or I’ll just try to shoot it all quickly, haha. Thanks!
Andrea Oppong
June 22, 2012 at 5:20 pm in reply to: How to match sunlight indoors with florescent?

Hi Peter,

Thanks. I’m not sure how to explain this, but after testing out different manual balance settings, I felt that the sunlight preset gave me the best colors at 10am that day. I now know that controlled lighting would have been better because now I’m having trouble replicating the same color that I got from that time of day the first time, since it’s been either overcast slightly, or the sun decided to shift, etc.

I do have Colorista, but right now I’m using my own custom settings in Looks + an S-curve.

Here are a couple of those before and after screencaps:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8004/7420827118_5f4471f227_b.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7256/7420826320_fc5f58e28a_b.jpg

Here’s the late night shot with florescent lighting and the color temp set at 4500 or so, after I pulled out some red and midtone color in curves:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7276/7420825286_0709e53401_b.jpg

That’s when I decided to ask about how to match shots because I wasn’t satisfied this result. Is this as close as I can get to the original? Or, what lights and gels should I get so I can keep it this consistent color? I’m definitely not a colorist, but I’m trying to get better at it. The wall is pretty orange, which is kind of unfortunate because I’d like to separate his skin from the wall to turn it more towards the wall color I got in the first shots, but it’s more of a challenge since I also risk affecting his skintone.
Andrea Oppong
June 20, 2012 at 3:54 pm in reply to: How to match sunlight indoors with florescent?

Thanks, Steve.

It was about 8 or 9 at night and he needed the lights to see his work, so it was my only option.

Thanks again!
Andrea Oppong
May 21, 2012 at 2:15 pm in reply to: Sony Vegas and MTS Files?

The MTS files make my processor work way too hard, so I think I found a solution – GearShift, which can transcode then replace the original MTS files during export.
Andrea Oppong
May 21, 2012 at 1:23 am in reply to: Sony Vegas and MTS Files?

Thanks, Jeff. Yeah, I know you can import them natively, that’s why I asked if there was any other way to do it. It’s only because from what I’ve researched that you can push out a bit more quality from heavy color grading when you transcode to ProRes, or does it depend on how you do it?