Help!! Need Color Correction Advice

Morning All,

While I normally do a great deal of Color Correction, this one is a real challenge.

One of my 3 DVC Pro Cameras came back from the Engineer with the White Balance set for Outdoors, Our Show is shot indoors. Thus I have 2 tapes shot at a 3200k preset and one at what, 5600k?

Thus major mistake...How can I best match the shots?

isn't there a way to get a numeric breakdown on the color and luminance data from one shot and then apply it to the shot? Rather than trying to match by eye thru the Color Correctors?

Any Advice would be much appreciated.

Editing with FCP5, Tiger OS X on a dual 2.3 G5, AMD chips.

The company's old equipment not mine.

Thanks,

Bret Sanders

Upload still samples.



www.strypesinpost.com

Hey strypes where or how would I upload these? They are stills as XML. Ok?

Thanks,

Bret

Export stills as jpeg or png. And put it up to a photo host like photobucket.

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www.strypesinpost.com

Thanks Strypes,

Used to have staff for this stuff. Welcome to the new economy...







This was a contract show shot at same club where we shoot Live Comedy Show...Using their own backdrop over our set.

Thanks,

Bret

I'm no expert, but that doesn't look too bad. I'd start with Match Hue in 3-Way Color Corrector first and see how close that gets you.


www.derekmok.com

Thanks Derek,

But I have never been able to get match hue to work, I have been through the manual on it forward or backwards, but to no avail...Any Advice?

Pick the image you want to match from.

Click the match hue eyedropper and suck up of the dark area under the performer's chin.

Go to the incorrect image and inject from the green blacks eyedropper into the same area under his chin.

Reset match hue and pick from the white area on his cap of the good image.

Use the mids or whites eyedropper, whichever is green, to inject the color into the same area of the cap on the bad image.

That should get you on the right track. Obviously each camera will have to be tweaked as none of them look right, unless there was some gelled light falling on him (or the cap isn't actually white.)

All the best,

Tom

Thanks Tom,

Your advice worked like a charm and now I understand why it wouldn't work for me in the past.

Best Forum there is...thanks to Everyone.

Now back to work with the color correction completed.

Bret

Color is the way to go, as you have a lot of control over the image. But it's manual, because when you grade, it is best to go by eye.






www.strypesinpost.com

B-Man if you can find FCS2 and use color v1.

FCP does CC but it is quite limited in its CC attributes. You can do it with 5.1 but you are gonna spend a lot of time on it and it still will not be quite there. Especial on luma/white balance changes which your example shows as being the main issue.

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