Color Correcting Help!

I shot a bunch of timelapse clips (12 and 15fps) with two GoPro3's and transcoded them in the GoPro software, Cineform Studio, because PP5.5 apparently does not natively handle MP4's. I made them universally 1080 and 29.97fps AVI's for import into Premiere 5.5 (on my mac).
While doing so, I also did minor color corrections. However, as I start to lay them side by side in Premiere I see that I did a poor job and that they look very different.
As a result, I have two problems:
1) I have no idea how to use Premiere's color many correcting tools.
2) Assuming I can figure a tool out, if I must correct each clip in the sequence individually, then there is no reason why I will not again make them all look different from each other.
Is there a way to make all the clips conform to a target value, with each changing the appropriate amount from it's own, current values to match it? For example, can I take one clip, adjust it's values (basically just white balance, brightness and contrast), and ask the rest to match it regardless of how close or far they currently are from it? I hope I've asked this question correctly.

The Three Way Color Corrector is probably the
most intuitive CC effect for a beginner in a hurry.
Here are a couple of short tutorials:
Three-way Color Corrector effect (CS6)
http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/three-way-color-corrector-cs6.html
Using the Three Way Color Corrector
http://www.video2brain.com/en/lessons/using-the-three-way-color-corrector
You can copy > paste the Three Way Color Corrector effect
from one clip to another as a starting point for additional clips.
Also, you can use an Adjustment Layer to apply a single
color correction effect across multiple clips.
Here's a short tutorial + documentation:
Using the New Adjustment Layers in Premiere Pro CS6
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/cs6-creative-cloud-feature-tour-for-video/using-the-new-adjustme nt-layers-in-premiere-pro-cs6/
Adobe Premiere Pro Help / Adjustment Layers (CS6)
http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/help-tutorials-adjustment-layers.html

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Hello,
In still working on these issues, when I turn on the Range Checker, and scroll thru the clip, I notice an “X” on the upper-right-hand side of the clip in the Viewer - what does this mean?
Then, when I start color correcting w/the color correction 3-way wheel, a different wheel opens up each time for each clip. By the time I get to the end of my project, I had opened and closed several color correction tabs, How do I know which color correction tab corresponded to which clip, if I want to go back and do more color correction? Do I have to count clips to correspond w/wheels? There must be a better way - thanks so much.

kristina,
what robbosaur is too diplomatic to say is you need to crack open your manuals and figure this out. if you would have looked around for the range check filter in the manual, it would have told you what the x or the check mark signifies.
also, you should probably get real cozy with the manual when it comes to applying filters and then altering them, this is real basic but confusing stuff. i highly recommend the tutorials and there are excellent 3rd party texts out there, especially from peachpit press.
it will help you to gang the canvas to open your sequence clip in the viewer, that way your sequence clip will already be open in your viewer when you stop the playhead and then when you open the "filters" tab, you'll see what you've applied to that clip.
i hope you're viewing your corrections on a monitor that best represents your delivery format.
zeb

FCE not exporting color corrections (help please)

I see there are some really experienced Final Cut folks here. Anyone care to help with this glitch?
I've imported AVCHD footage from a Canon Vixia in 1920x1080. I edit it in Final Cut Express. I add Color Correction and Brightness / Contrast Filters. Then I export it as regular Quicktime (no compression). For some reason the brightness changes get exported but the color correction changes do not. I have tried rendering the footage before export. No change. It only exports brightness edits.
How can I fix this?
thank you for your help!

Hi and welcome to the forum!
What are your sequence settings? Are you seeing the color changes in your canvas before export?

Color correction help - step-by-step

I'd appreciate some help with a snippet from a video I posted on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DFqIQPH_iU
This video was shot with three cameras. The wide shot has the most "correct colors". The video from that wide shot camera is what I want to use as my benchmark. I want to get the two "close up" cameras to match, as much as possible, the colors from the "wide shot" camera,
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So my question is what Adobe CS5 color correction tools should I use to give me the color correction I need.
For example, in what order should I use the various color correction tools? Or is there one tool I can use that will "fix" it all.
Thanks

shooternz wrote:
Its going to be a bit trial and error because thats the way it is in the CC workflow.
I agree its a bit of a saturation (red) issue which you already identified so deal with that.
Try LEVELS in the red channels (and most likely red gamma - which is the mids)
Shouldnt be too difficult because its not too bad as it is.
Maybe with LEVELS drop the RGB Gamma (or Black) to bring the BG down a bit on the refernce clip ( effectively saturating it a little more)
Tip: Set up a Reference Monitor with the reference clip.
Hi
I am on another computer this morning without Premiere -- I assume a Reference Monitor is one I set up within Premiere -- not a physical external monitor.
I will try your suggestions -- BTW is an eyedropper included in Levels? So I can do some color matching, or is that something completely different.
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Premiere Pro Color Correcting Help with GoPro Protune Footage

Hey guys,
I'm working on a video I made of my daughter's birth. Most of the footage is from my DSLR and looks fine, but Im' having a helluva time getting my GoPro footage to look even remotely decent. I shot in ProTune thinking I could get more out of it in post (plus, I wanted the 24 fps option). It's a lot of indoor footage and I don't expect miracles but I'm trying to get the best I can out of it.
I start by using fast color corrector to white balance based off hte door trim. That works but it still looks really, really flat and dead. Tried using Contrast, RGB curves, etc. and I can't seem to get any sort of decent image out of it.
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If you're on PrPro CC, I'd get Speedgrade also and take a run over to it for your correction work ... commonly known as grading. Yea, you can do it in PrPro, but as a noob ... never got the footage I worked "there" as far along as when working in Sg. Might help.
Next ... the scopes here are quite interesting ... first, set your lower-end of the footage to the point where you either go for good "broadcast" (blacks that you WANT black about 16 on a 0-255 scale), then lift the contrast/highs/whatever control until your whites just tip out on top. Next correct for gamma, the overall placement of the mids/upper mids, then start with your color work.
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Hello everyone. I'm getting ready to begin color correction on a DV feature I've just finished audio post on. I have a Macintosh dual 2Gig G5. It's an early G5 that has PC133 slots, however, and is NOT HD compatible or ready. I cannot use an HD video card (AJA, etc) or an HD monitor for cc - and simply cannot afford an AJA IO - so I'm going to work with SD. In the research I've done it looks like the JVC DT V1710CGU - a 17" monitor that is said to have decent critical color correction capabilities is what I might purchase (here's a link to one)
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...s%3Den%26sa%3DN
How would I be able to get my video out to the monitor using my G5? The reason I ask this is because, simple as I thought it was, when I went to purchase the actual monitor and the tech tried to use it to see video from his laptop . . . it didn't work.
He plugged from the computer to the JVC monitor using a DVI to VGA adapter connected to a VGA to RGB cable (the DVI end of the adapter being connected to the computer) and connected that RGB end of the cable into the JVC.
He tried a lot of different monitor formats in his laptop to try to conform the computer's signal for the JVC, but nothing seemed to work. I myself have a Sony DVMC-DA2 analogue to digital media converter that I used to get video from the G5 to view on an external television set. The media converter is connected to the G5 via fire wire, and then connect to the tv using RCA cables, but the tech said that you DON'T want to connect the JVC monitor using RCA cables (composite . . . right?). He said use RGB cables (component).
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Any help would be appreciated.
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Thank you much for the prompt reply, David. I really appreciate it.
I just realized right now - after reading your post and investigating, that is - that my Sony DVMC-DA2 has S-Video in and out. This seems that it would be sufficient then, no? So . . . what's the proper connection then? Let me know please if this is it:
Connect my Sony media converter to the G5 via fire wire. Go out of the media converter via S-Video and IN to the JVC color correction monitor . . . via . . . what? Does the JVC monitor have S-Video in?
Thanks again for your help, by the way. You've already clear me up a bit.
Javier

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When you see white pixels in an overexposed shot, it means that there's often no pixel data to work with.
While the best option is a reshoot (this time with proper monitoring), you may want to try the "Captain's Blowout Fixer" filter available here: http://pistolerapost.com/pluginz/index.html
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I'd crunch it up a little more with a curves adjustment. These children don't look healthy and stronger contrast will help. Also push the reds toward a slightly more orange tone. They look too purple. There's also still an overall purple tinge which needs to be eliminated. See the included 3 minute quick shot of mine. Not perfect and requires more tweaking (too much yellow now, see the lips), but I think it better represents the feeling one would want to convey.
Mylenium

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Thank Jim for replying:
I am stumped on this one. I did a few radical tweeks and it did not take. For example, I made one clip in the original sequence go completely dark. However, the clip in the mulicam sequence did not change.
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Hello, fairly new at FCPro but I am trying to isolate reds in a clip and change them to purple & orange. I am using the Color Corrector Filter and when isolating the reds and making adjustments I do not see any changes in the viewer.
The eyeball icon on the top left of the window is checked but I can't visually see any changes happening. Can someone please tell me what is going on?
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One other simple gotcha is to be color correcting but the viewer is not showing the current clip (the one you are working on...)
Thanks for posting back. Good to have closure on questions.
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Hey
Im new to after effects cs4. I made a time lapse video of the sky. However, the sky is to bright and you can't really see the clouds very well. I would like to change the 'levels' of the sky, but not the buildings at the bottom of the video. So only half of the video will have colour correction on it. How do i do this???? Thanks!

The gist is simple:
Create an adjustment layer.
Draw a mask on the adjustment layer.
Apply the color-correction effect to the adjustment layer.
The devil is in the details. For example, if you need to animate the mask, you may have some rotoscoping to do.
Here's a video that shows how to do this in a case where the item to be color-corrected is moving:
http://www.peachpit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e=8822f9a1-93c5-4a00-8697-a54b653c7aaf
This is actually a very basic compositing question, so I'm going to strongly recommend that you begin at the beginning and work your way through the getting-started learning materials.

Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Color correction and adjustment

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/color-correction-adjustment.html

Hi Ann,
I apologize for the incorrect screen shots. I will forward this thread to the new content and community lead, Mallika Yelandur.
Cheers,
Kevin

My HD TV as NTSC Monitor for secondary color correction

Can I use my new Panasonic HD TV model TH-42PX80U as a NTSC monitor for secondary color correction using both Final Cut Pro out of a Macbook Pro intel? What cable I can use to conect via HDMI? Will the color acuracy will be similar to that of a NTSC color correction monitor? will my TV do a decent job for NTSC? THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!
I am not sure I have this HDMI cable to be use in my macbook pro does it comes with it?

Can I use my new Panasonic HD TV model TH-42PX80U as a NTSC monitor for secondary color correction using both Final Cut Pro out of a Macbook Pro intel?
Yes, but I would only trust it if you are going to be making DVDs, and ONLY if you properly set it up. I would not rely on it for broadcast color correction. The reason broadcast monitors exist is to have a standard...HDTVs don't have a standard. Go to best buy and look at all of them....none of them match. BUT, as a nice simple solution for DVD, I'd use it.
But the only way you are going to get a signal to it is with the Matrox MXO. It will do component to the monitor, or you can get a DVI to HDMI adapter...if you do that the MXO software will allow you to set the monitor up to color bars. That option is only available from of the DVI out of the box.
Will the color acuracy will be similar to that of a NTSC color correction monitor?
No...it would be similar to color correcting NTSC on your home television...because that it what it is.
will my TV do a decent job for NTSC?
I doubt it. Taking an SD image and blowing it up huge on this HD TV...scaled up. I wouldn't think so. I wouldn't use it for SD color correction.
I am not sure I have this HDMI cable to be use in my macbook pro does it comes with it?
You have a DVI port on your MacBook Pro. And they make DVI to HDMI cable adapters I'm sure.
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Perhaps I am missing something very elementary here... but here is my situation. I have three camera angles, each of the same concert. They are synced and ready to go, each on a separate track. Each needs color correction. I have found the color correction for each that I want. Before I slice up my clips I can very easily color correct each line separately, as the color correction applies to the whole clip. However, this takes about an hour to render because it is so much material. But since I am slicing up each track anyway to form a composite track, wouldn't it make more sense for me to slice up each track as I see fit, delete the unwanted footage, and then color correct each line before I drag them all into one composite track? That way, the color correction would just be applied to the clips that I am using, presumably taking about 1/3 the time to render. Know what I mean? So here is the question: can I select all of the clips on one line and THEN color correct just those? Or do I have to select each little clip and type in the boatload of numbers into the numeric color correction. Or is there another way all together. (Like, is there a way to SAVE the color correction values that I want and call them like "camera one" "camera two" etc... and then just apply those settings to the clips I want?)
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I have 10 more pieces to do and by far this was the most time consuming part of the job. So any help would be most appreciated!
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Apply the color correction to one clip and adjust as needed. Copy the clip. Select all other clips that you want to apply the filter with those settings to. Right-click on one and select Paste Attributes/Filters.
-DH

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