[Jaeson Jrakman]

So it just got done rendering out. There’s still a slight variation in color in the white background, it fluctuates between a cool white and a warm yellowish white.

But overall, holy smokes what an improvement! Obviously, it’s good advice to use the correct camera settings and create good footage from the start. But those who say bad footage can’t be improved haven’t seen this work. Incredible!

Thanks!

[Jaeson Jrakman]

So I’m rendering this out now. I’ve got about a 2 hour render time, so I probably won’t post on this again tonight.

There was only one small glitch. For some reason, when I replaced the footage the width seemed scrunched, so that there were black bars on either side of the screen. This was easy enough to fix by stretching the width scale to 110. I checked the aspect ration of the project, and it was set to 1920 x 1080. I checked the details in the properties of the footage, and it too was set at 1920 x 1080. So not sure what happened, but it looks right when I stretch it out like that. I was able to deal with that but thought I’d put that in here for future reference for others.

But mainly I wanted to make a point of thanking you again. Thanks!

[Jaeson Jrakman]

I honestly can’t thank you enough. I’ll give that a shot tomorrow. Thanks again!

[Jaeson Jrakman]

Thanks again for your response, I’m just getting back to this tonight.

So I alt+clicked the stopwatch on Shadow Amount under Shadow/Highlight in the 8mm footage, pasted in the code you wrote above, and I get this error message:

“you could add an effect curves, set the adjustment layers to color or hue or luma will make the curves only affect one thing at a time.”

So the problem when I create the hue comp, and then add the adjustment layer, I add the Hue/Saturation and Curves effects, but don’t really know what to do with those effects. Just adding them doesn’t seem to do much of anything. And I don’t see how to set the adjustment layer to color, or hue, or luma. Do you mean set the mode of the adjustment layer to color, hue, stencil luma, or silhouette luma?

I’m still not sure what this means, “an adjustment layer set to hue for effect-hue.” Do you mean set the mode of the adjustment layer with the curves effect to hue so that the curves effect only affects the hue? How do I set the curve effect?

Here’s what I have so far:

Does that look correct?

I appreciate the AE CC 2017 upgrade file. But unfortunately, I can’t do anything with it because I’m running CS6, and CS6 won’t open AE CC 2017 files.

[Jaeson Jrakman]

I’m’ going through this now, and I’m not understanding “the shadow/highlight code upgraded to include b/w you’d paste into Shadow Amount under effect ‘Shadow/Highlight’ under layer ‘8mm ships.mov 2’ in comp ‘Final output’.” Does this mean that I add something to the Shadow/Highlight layer to accommodate black and white? If so, how? I don’t see R, G or B where I would paste the formulas into.

When you say, “the new hue precomp uses an adjustment layer set to hue for effect-hue. you can also add curves set to color, and curves set to luma for flat images.” Does that mean that I add an adjustment layer to this comp, and then add the hue/saturation effect, the curves effect? If so, what settings do I put in them? How do I set hue for effect? How do I set curves to color? How do I set to luma for flat images? I’m not seeing controls in these effects for these settings.

I copied and pasted the formula into the Shadow/Highlight layer, and this error message popped up:

[Jaeson Jrakman]

Oops, just saw your pre-comp instructions.

[Jaeson Jrakman]

When you say “i added a curves to the hue precomp mode ‘color’.”

I’m not seeing a hue pre-comp. Are you referring to the new template you just posted here? If so, I’m u nable to use it because I am running CS6, and it appears that file is CC 2017.

I can open the original file though, which was created in CS3.

[Jaeson Jrakman]

That’s a really nice video. Thank you very much. I’d be interested in watching all of your videos if you have any more.

I’m going to give your description a shot tomorrow evening, with the first template you had which I think was CS3. That works with my CS6.

I’ll let you know my results tomorrow night. Thanks again!

[Jaeson Jrakman]

Thanks again Chris. I’m working with CS6, so some of this may be outside the scope of what my version can do.

The video essentially fluctuates from frame to frame. There is a white background which fluctuates between white, to a cream color to a whiteish purplish color over time. The color stabilizer effect won’t work for me because there are no still shots where a white or black space remains in a constant place. Maybe that’s the hue issue you speak of?

I’m not at all familiar with working with vectorscopes.

I hear you with regards to explaining advanced color correction. I was under the impression that I’d be able to plug my footage in this and get a satisfactory fix with a button, but that seems unlikely. I don’t think my skill level is up to tackle what you’re describing here.

If you want to take a look at the footage to see what is really going on, here is a download link.

https://www.filehosting.org/file/details/810125/Sequence%2001-2.mov

It’s possible that I’m describing the problem incorrectly.

[Jaeson Jrakman]

Thank you very much for this, but I’m working with CS6, so I’m afraid it won’t open for me.