[Victor Nguyen]

[Walter Soyka] “Play along with your own footage, and remember that color is one more tool in your toolbox for making impressions, telling stories, or evoking responses in your viewers.”

yes that is exactly how I want to use it for. In my high school, there is a broadcasting class and it is just maddening to me that they don’t learn about color grading.next year I’m joining it and I would like to show everyone what a difference color grading can make.I’m glad that you use colorista a lot because that is what I mainly use; I just want to know if that is what professional prefer.

how come you don’t like levels? I just mainly use it for contrast since I think it looks better than curves even though sometime it blown out the color.

one more question: does HD matter in color grading? Because sometime I use colorista with SD and it seems that colorista would change the whole video instead of adjusting only one part (such as turning up shadow would change the whole video).Also does my computer have to support open GL to support the keyer, because my keyer is not working

[Victor Nguyen]

if you keyframe the position of any layer from point A to point B, there should already be a motion path. If you need more information on this just ask.

I never have the need to copy in a motion path so I don’t know how to do it. But here are some documentation on it and I hope it is helpful

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WSE4F03C08-9074-45eb-842E-2BF05D297249a.html

[Victor Nguyen]

In my honest opinion, animating it just seems like a pain. I would have get a screen recording software. Im looking at this free one calling camstudio right now, but I don’t really know if it’s good or not. Any who I would record with a green background and you can just key it out.

That would give you much better mouse animation and the fraction of the time trying to animate it. if you want you can actually turn your whole desktop green.

[Victor Nguyen]

I never use a professional camera before…If I’m correct, it uses mini dv tape to store the recording, but how do you transfer it to the computer?

Also, wouldn’t magic bullet looks or colorista would have been better than mojo

if you add grain to it, I didn’t see it. The quality is really great though. I have to replay the door scene 3 times cause it looks so good.

[Victor Nguyen]

cons: In some scene there are very low light. The worst thing about this video to me is the sound, it just totally ruin the whole video.The video was much better when I took off my headphone

pros: visually, this is stunning. maybe you could have added different gun burst for some variety but I didn’t notice it much. I really like the blood splatter against the wall ( never mind the physic). However it disappear in the next scene and so there were some continuation error.

Can you please tell me what camera you shot with and how you do the color grading?

[Victor Nguyen]

how would dslr hinder green screen, color grading and compositing work?
Also is dslr sound quality very bad? it seems like it is so much trouble so I’m thinking just to go for a normal camcorder

[Victor Nguyen]

well I’m joining a class next year where we will be filming a lot and I need to at least have a decent computer to work on, and I’m planing for this computer to be my main through out my college years.

for the camera, I just want to have something that actually shoots in HD since the one I’m having right now doesn’t.In my college years, I will then be saving up for those 3 thousand dollars that pros use. Now I need at least something decent to work with. The camera doesn’t have to be for effect work, but I do like it to have a cinematographic look to it

[Victor Nguyen]

haha it would have been more funny if you use this site lmgtfy.com

[Victor Nguyen]

thanks for the help mr.Jelescu.yeah I knew that the mask were a mistake.But how would you make a tight mask when the object is moving without using rotoscoping(I was trying to put some skin tone back to the woman)? Should I also have made a mask around the stairway and use a tint or pull out some color? I believe color grading is really important and would like to learn it more, thanks for the help

[Victor Nguyen]

Walter, wow this was very helpful.how do I read waveform and rgb parade? I was using colorista, so do you have any tips to get my desire orange/blue look?