[Carlos E. martinez]

I am aware of the many things you can do using Color Correction in Avid. But you can’t single out specific areas you want to work on.

Please do not take my words literally, in the sense that Photoshop is the name of the tool you can use in FCP to do that (he may be wrong on that), but it seems a fact that you can do such a fine correction.

For instance I have some faces that are a bit dark, but to brighten them up I will wash out some already sunny areas.

On another case I have a stage with some very bright lights in the background which would be great to darken down in order to correct the foreground, which is darker. If I could single out a thin horizontal area for the lights, I could do a lot on the rest.

[Carlos E. martinez]

Thanks for the suggestions, Jon.

What is that Sorenson Squeeze? Are you sure it’s always bundled or is it a plug-in? Where do I get it? What should I use it for?

It doesn’t seem to be on my version (#5) or on my setup. On the Videoguys’ tips they say it should be in the Autolaunch pag, but it’s not on mine: only PowerDVD is the option I have.

What I did was export my files as a QT Reference and then loaded the mov file on Canopus, which converted it onto mpeg2.

But I am getting some strobo aberrations in movements and pans which are not on the originals, not even on the m2v file Canopus created. So I guess it migh be something in the vob conversion which is causing it. I used TMPGEnc DVD Author for that, and it always worked fine. Also I did burn a test using the avi conversion (limited to 2GB) that Avid exported, and it looked fine. What might be happening?

[Carlos E. martinez]

This seems like a very good question, so please excuse my widening the field.

That adjusting is something I always found like a very good idea, both to set audio and video levels.

Which is the TBC or amplifier any of you might be using for this? How do you set the levels (VU, scope)? Which should be the “right” way to do it?

Carlos E. Mart