Color correction filter and keyframes

After lots of projects in FCE, I should know this!
I have a clip with a color correction filter and keyframes at either end of the clip.
Question: If I break the clip in two, am I correct that the color correction filter and keyframes are no longer shared by the two clips? Changes made to one clip's keyframes no longer effect the other clip's color correction settings?

That's correct.

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Color correction filter

I've been trying to learn the color correction filter. I used the manual, and read how to apply filters and the chapter on color correction. So I select my clip in the sequence, park the playhead where I want to monitor, open the scopes, drag the filter from the browser. When I use the sliders or controls, nothing happens! I can't figure out what I am doing wrong.

First of all Catrina did you drag the color correction 3 Way filter from the browser window onto the clip (sitting on the timeline) that you want to be affected?
If so you should be able to control your changes in the viewer window and see the results of your colour grading on tha canvas in real time.
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Strange thing in FCP´s color correction filter...

Hi i have noticed that I do have in my FCP color correction filter one of the WHITES dropper colored in green???
Have a look a this picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elegantmob/3930570127/
Is this normal? I do not remember seing it that way. Should I do something?
Thank you
St.

that indicates that you have enabled the *Match Hue* function ... click the round reset button at far right of the Match Hue controls (below the Mids wheel) and it should revert to normal
you can read more on the venerable Match Hue function here
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/match_hue_fcp_5balis.html

Color correction shape mask keyframes!!!

Using FCPX for color correction, but when I add a shape mask and animate it using keyframes, I have no way to smooth the keyframes and control their smoothness!!! Someone PLEASE tell me I'm just missing on the way to do it... I tried everything.
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I created some animatable masks (keyframeable on-screen control points). It's three keying effects: a single 4 point mask (like the one that comes with FCPX), a two 4 point set (essentially an 8-point), and a four 4 point set (essentially a 16-point.)
Please watch the video for best use guides. Most of the time, layering on 2 or more single 4 point mask shapes is quite addequte to do most of your masking needs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_l2K6rXwGw
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Have you fully rendered the sequence before viewing/exporting? Click Option-R to check.

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Basically yes, but not quite. You may want to review the new features. The paint bucket was removed because it was, well, pointless in most cases. THe Live Paint tool is much more useful than the old Paint Bucket.

How to keyframe color-correction effects.

I have seen the odd question bemoaning the inability of FCP X to keyframe color-corrections but as I have no interest in doing such things I have paid no attention.
However, I discovered in a Ken Stone article that color corrections can be keyframed using a free filter from Ripple Training.
The RT tutorial and a link to the filter can be found here:-
http://www.rippletraining.com/using-the-rt-color-balance-effect-in-final-cut-pro -x.html
Apologies if almost everyone else already knows this, but I am sure there will be somebody (like me) who doesn't.
The original Ken Stone article on all types of FCP X keyframing is here:-
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_keyframing_effects_stone.html

One way to 'keyframe' colour correction with FCP X is to add the clip to the storyline, then move the playhead back to the beginning of that clip and use 'Q' in the Event Browser to add the same clip again as a connected clip, above the original.
Colour correct one of the clips, then keyframe the opacity of one of them to effect the change you want.
Andy

Multicam and Color Correcting

Is there a way that I can set the color correction for one camera, and it applies to all of the cuts. When I drag the filter onto the clip it asks to apply it to the source angle, or to the multiclip. I have tried both, and it will only apply to that one clip and not all of the other clips that are from that camera. Will I have to apply to each individual clip, or is there and easier way?

hi Rod
color correction workflow for Multiclip projects is no different than for any other FCP project
that is, correction is applied on a clip by clip basis
you can only apply a universal correction to a clip (or angle) by applying the correction to the source before you start editing with it ... thereafter, every instance of that clip will have the filter applied
of course, you can apply the color correction filter to an angle of your multiclip and every instance of that angle that you cut in will have the filter applied
(i did notice before, that even though the clip may be color corrected, the multiclip display only shows the unfiltered clip, and the filtered clip only displays correctly once it is cut into the timeline)
sure, it might be nice if there was an option somewhere to force a filter applied to a master clip (or angle) to be applied to every other instance of that clip ... but there isn't!
good luck
Andy
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Advice for logical workflow for color correcting and color grading

I am an experienced user of PPRO CS5. I am a novice with color correcting and color grading. I am also just barely competant in AE CS5. It has been suggested that I use AE for color correcting my footage. Can you advise me as to the most logical workflow for doing this in coordination with PPRO CS5? Are there some tutorials that you recommend? I subscribe to Lynda.com and I think that they have some great tutorials, I am unsure as to where to begin looking and what to search for.
Thanks so much,
Lisa

lisaellensegal wrote:
I am an experienced user of PPRO CS5. I am a novice with color correcting and color grading. I am also just barely competant in AE CS5. It has been suggested that I use AE for color correcting my footage.
You can do it that way, sure. But you don't have to. You can accomplish quite a lot without leaving PPro. This has two major advantages. First, if you aren't using AE for anything else, it gets you out of using AE at all, so gets you out of climbing another set of learning curves.
Second, even if you are using AE for other things (I use AE to make motion lower thirds, for example), doing the work in PPro can improve exporting speeds. This is because AE gets restricted to a single processor core in some workflows as discussed in this thread and others (search around if you're interested). This can make exporting take 3x as long or longer, depending on how much footage has to be processed by AE.
So, how to do color correction without leaving PPro? Use either a luma corrector or luma curve effect to set black and white points, and contrast (use a waveform monitor to help). Then use a three way color corrector effect to get rid of any residual color casts (use the vectorscope to help, and the RGB parade, etc.).
If you find you have specific colors that need to be fixed, you can apply another three way color correction effect and use it to make that secondary color correction (for example I find the blue dyes used in many labels tend to fluoresce under fluorescent lighting, and has to be desaturated with a secondary color correction or it "blooms" on an HDTV -- IOW, it has to be made "broadcast safe").
If you want tutorials for using these tools, the ones on Creative Cow by Andrew Devis are quite good, and free. The ones on color correction with PPro cs6 start at tutorial number 47. There's a bunch of them. All good.
Finally, get a copy of Van Hurkman's Color Correction Handbook. May be the best technical book I've ever read, and it'll certainly point you in the right direction for doing color correction work regardless of which tools you use to do it.

Color Correction with in Final Cut Pro 6

Hi All,
I have a showreel of my work, and some of the clips have sections that are darker than I would like them to be, and I would like to correct the color issues. Is it possible to only correct 3 seconds of over dark video, and not have the entire 2 hours thus over bright? I have tried with key frames, and maybe I am not doing the right way.
I put a keyframe on the 1st frame of the clip in question, then on the last frame of the correct section of the clip, then 1 frame later another keyframe, this is now on the incorrect color clip, then 2 more keyframes, last frame of incorrect color, then on the 1st frame of correct video.
Is this ok?
Justine

A better way is to blade (or add edit) at the beginning and end of the section that needs the correction and just apply the color correct filter to that section.

Auto-select clip under playhead? (for color correction)

Hi all
Another newbie question concerning color correction in FCS2.
When moving from clip to clip in the timeline, the viewer (which contains the 3-way color correction filter) doesn't refresh until I remember to double-click on the current clip to select it. In other words, if I change a filter on one clip, then move in the timeline to the next clip, the viewer still contains the previous clip's filter, and if I forget, I'll start fiddling with it, thinking I'm now looking at the current clip.
Still with me?
So, my question is, is there an "auto-select" feature whereby, as I move my playhead along the timeline, clips on a selected track (eg V1) will automatically get selected and loaded into the viewer?
I know there is an auto-select feature for tracks, which I've enabled for my video track, but it doesn't seem to be meant for what I want.
Thanks!
Matt

If you set the SYNC to OPEN, what is being played in the time line (and displayed in the Canvas view) will also be displayed in the Viewer.
Just a point of clarification - the Viewer doesn't hold the CC filter, it will only display the filters that have already been applied to currently displayed clip. If the next clip displayed in the viewer has not had the 3way CC applied, the 3way CC won't display as part of the filters on that clip.
Good luck,
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Color correction questions

I have a few questions about the color correction tools in Premiere CS4.
1. Suppose that the colors in my shot are basically correct, but the blacks have a tint to them. Which is the best color correction filter to use to correct for this?
2. Do any of the color correction filters desaturate secondary colors? I have a shot that would probably look fine if I could just desaturate the yellows.
I know that this can be done in Photoshop.
3. Is there a good technique in Premiere for matching colors between two scenes or cameras? I know Avid's color correction has a specific setting for this.
Thanks in adance!
J. D.

1) tint in black probably means white balance was off a bit ( not matched to your light source).
Can try to correct WB overall and get rid of black tint ( use eye dropper and choose the black area that's supposed to be black and make it black...see what happens to the rest of your image colors )
2) maybe broadcast colors...which has some tendency to imitate "selective color" in photoshop, as you adjust stuff ...
3) no ...except maybe ( again ) broadcast colors ... but probably you have to do by eye or LUT...but basically no
I'm kinda new at this so dont take my word as gospel...someone else may have cool ideas ( they usually do )

Can't see secondary color correction in the viewer! Help...

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?
Thanks,
Dan G

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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Color Correction - In Premiere CS5 or After Effects CS5?????

Hello
I started this question in Premiere, but am now thinking that perhaps I should take advantage of the additional color correction tools in CS5 After Effects.....
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/777459?tstart=0
If any one is interested in helping me do this in AE CS5, here is a copy and paste of the question from the above link:
I have two clips that I need to color correct. Please see attached. I want to brighten up the clip on the BOTTOM to more match the clip on the TOP
The cinematographer has given me these instructions:
" Specially the third clip with the two foxes ) shots are dark compared to the second time the foxes are shown. You will have to apply a color correction filter on them and work with the midtone and the light sliders so you can make it a bit brighter. Also you will probably need to bring the balcks down a bit once you pushed the midtones, you will have to see what it looks like once you are correcting."
I haven't done much color correcting, but the above seems pretty basic. So any suggestions you have will be appreciated.

To make those changes all you really need to do is adjust the levels... so apply a "levels" effect and adjust accordingly... in either Premiere or After Effects... it works the same in both.

Multiclip Color Correction

So I have a 3 angle multiclip - I place it in the time line, play it and edit it. Now I want to color correct. The manual says I can drag a color correcter filter from the effects browser onto the timeline clip where I am offered the option of 'apply to source angle' which I do as I am told this will allow me to alter the settings for the whole of that angle each time it appears in the timeline edit. However, this is not what happens, it only effects the one piece I dragged the filter onto. Every subsequent time that angle appears it does not have the filter on it. Additionally the manual says to see filters rendered to multiclip angles choose "Render Filters in Multiclip Display from the View pop up menu" - this option is not in the View pop up menu.....
any ideas?

This probably isn't the norm. But, I've been color correcting and when I have numerous pieces in the same scene that can use the same color correction I just click on filters and copy all. This copies all the filters and then just go down the line and copy into each sequence. For me it goes very fast. If you're just using Color Correction, in the upper left corner are two arrows facing each direction, if you click the first in either direction it copies that CC to the next clip. If you hit the second it goes two clips over.

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