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By: Color Grading: The Process To Help You Feel The Picture | Myjive

Color Grading: The Process To Help You Feel The Picture | Myjive — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:03:01 +0000

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By: FMP: Colour Correction | Finale Year

FMP: Colour Correction | Finale Year — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:56:11 +0000

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By: Vashi

Vashi — Thu, 02 May 2013 13:20:58 +0000

Hi Arie! Thanks for the kind comment and I’m hope it gives you a nice introduction to the huge world of Color Correction! Best of luck!

By: Arie

Arie — Thu, 02 May 2013 10:49:41 +0000

Wow.. I’m beginning my way to Color Grading.. and I stumble upon this article… Thank you… I think It’s a very good headstart for me..

By: Vashi

Vashi — Wed, 01 May 2013 23:05:23 +0000

Bien…glad that it helped out! There is so much to learn…so every little tip and trick gives you another tool to perfect your craft. Thanks again for your kind commment!

By: Vashi

Vashi — Wed, 01 May 2013 23:03:19 +0000

Hi Aaron. Good question…I will share my method of sharpening h.264 (DSLR) footage. First off, sharpening dialed all the way down is essential as the in-camera sharpening will cause ugly sharpening and a lot of moire and fringing edges. Second, I prefer Unsharp Mask in Premiere/After Effects for my sharpening. I find it has more control then the Sharpen effect. After some testing to dial it in…my secret sauce for Unsharp Mask is Amount 100 and Radius 1.1 for a good general sharpening effect. That’s the settings I use to give my footage a nice pop. Give it a shot for yourself and let me know how it works for you! All the best…Vashi

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:22:54 +0000

How much sharpening do you typically apply with the Premiere Pro sharpening tool? I’ve been adding a value between 30-50 to most of my shots. I have sharpening dialed down to zero in the camera. Thanks

By: Bien

Bien — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:12:57 +0000

That’s genious since you don’t need much effort in post anymore:D

By: Bien

Bien — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:48:21 +0000

Thanks, Vashi! You’re a great help! You really helped me become better at color grading.

By: Vashi

Vashi — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:35:06 +0000

Hi Bien and thanks for your support and good question. We achieved the blue-tint look all in camera. We dialed the Color Temperature from 5600 (daylight) down to 4200 using the manual settings in the Canon 5Dmkii. That shifted the color to the look we wanted and then we added make warmth in the mids to the skin tones. You can do all of this in post we had shot 5600…but with the 8-bit color space of the h.264 footage…we captured as close to the final look straight off the bat. I hope that helps and best of luck on your projects!

By: Bien

Bien — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:30:36 +0000

I noticed that you shot in cool lighting so that there’s no need to add add blue shadows and highlights in post production so all you need to add in post production are the orange midtones. How do you shoot in cool lighting when you are outside? What camera settings should I adjust to shoot in cool colors?

And by cool I mean blueish. Not the cool as in awesome.

By: Vashi

Vashi — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:55:10 +0000

Thank you Remco for the kind comment. That Order of Operations tip really helps in maintaining footage quality through the color workflow. So glad it helped out!

By: Remco

Remco — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:01:05 +0000

Woow great man! thanks alot. Especially the order how to aply color correction is really helpfull.

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By: Correccion de Color en Video Digital HD - Guia práctica I D2VISUAL

Correccion de Color en Video Digital HD - Guia práctica I D2VISUAL — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:42:11 +0000

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By: yago

yago — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:46:34 +0000

Hi Vashi
I was reading again the answers to Q&A’s and found the answer there already.
Thanks for your time
yago

By: Vashi

Vashi — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:36:06 +0000

Thank you Yago for the kind comment. Glad that you found it helpful! In terms of artifacts and de-noise…artifacts are usually considered macro-blocks in the darker areas of footage and also banding in skies or gradients. Both can be addressed with de-noising plugins like Neat Video or Magic Bullet De-noiser. If you own or have access to After Effects, there is a “remove grain” effect that is already built in, but you really have to fiddle with all the settings to get a similar result to Neat Video or MB De-noiser. You would also have to add back some sharpness with an “unsharp mask” in After Effects in my opinion. If you have a lot of noisy or low light footage…it might be worth it to buy a plugin and save a lot of hassle and time. The choice is up to you! All the best…

By: yago

yago — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:06:53 +0000

Thanks Vashi for this great workflow. It is really great. I have a further question:
In Tip 3
1. Remove artifacts and de-noise.

What do you mean by “Remove artifacts” and how is that done.
De-noise is that a step that can only be achieved by getting plug-ins ?
Cheers and keep up the excellent work

By: Brian Touhy

Brian Touhy — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:17:48 +0000

Thank you very much!

By: Vashi

Vashi — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:07:30 +0000

Hi Adam and thank you for reading my article and posting a very good question. You are on the right path with your approach to fix the skin tones and remove the red. The secret is that you need to combine both a mask (matte) and secondary color correction. Ideally, you should make a matte around only the part of the frame that has the skin tone. If you have already tried this and could not isolate just the face/skin tone because everything is reddish/orange you will probably have to rotoscope the face frame by frame. Another option is to open this clip in Davinci Resolve Lite (free!) and track a matte that only has the face/skin in it. It will automatically follow the area you select and you can then change the skin tone color with the same 3-way color wheels that exist in Premiere. Without seeing the image for myself, it is kind of hard to say exactly which technique to use…but the tracked matte with secondary color correction would be my suggestion. I know it can be frustrating, but good and believable results in post are often time consuming. The more you do it…the easier it wil be! Good luck and I hope this helps answer your questions! Vashi