Experiences with improving "underexposed" look?

I'm editing an HDV feature (1080x1920 60i) and some scenes are a bit dark for me,
look a bit underexposed. Planning to capture the online with ProRes, then use Color.
I need to learn the Color app in general, but I'm curious if anyone has had good experiences
with this kind of fix in Color. I'm cutting the offline version with DV25 anamorphic. The 3 way
color tool in FCP (which I have had very good experiences with on other projects) is giving
me a very noisy result when I bring the DV25 up to the contrast I like for the shots. I'm hoping
that with the ProRes codec and Color, I will not have this issue.

Thanks.

Paul Buhl
www.acifilms.com/paulbuhl.htm

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Paul
... some scenes are a bit dark for me,
look a bit underexposed. Planning to capture the online with ProRes, then use Color.
I need to learn the Color app in general, but I'm curious if anyone has had good experiences
with this kind of fix in Color...

Hi, Paul

Once you do get the footage into Color it will handle the under exposure fine. What I would recommend is to remove the Broadcast Safe option in SetUp>Project Settings. Use the scopes to see the blacks (0%) and whites (100%). You adjust the contrast first then make a midtone adjustment.

You might consider buying the book APTS Color book by D. Gross and M Wohl it's covered in the first two lessons.

amor y paz,
victor
[www.victorfoto.com]