Delving into the murky seas of Colour Correction
Hi,
Recently we went on location and took a series of test footage shots. These shots were from various locations, as well as various times of day. We are aware of the "Before 10am and After 4pm" shooting rule, but, being the curious little chaps we are, we decided to try a range of shots and see what we can achieve in post with colour correction (sorry, I can bring myself to leave out the "u").
I have two main questions that I hope can be answered by someone with more colour correction skills than I have (and I am guessing that includes most of the panel here! )
1) Our project is aimed at the HDTV market, and will hopefully be aired in the UK. Now that I am using colour correction software (SA Color Finesse 3 for now) I notice that there are "Limiters" that can be used to prevent breaching certain broadcast rules. The only choices I have in SACF3 are for NTSC, PAL or ATSC. Does HDTV fall under any of those? Speaking to some of the others, we are under the impression that HD is in a league of its own. I have a specific shot that I am testing with, and when the limiters are enabled, there is very little I can do without breaching some limit or another. There is a terrible blue tint to the shot, and when I adjust the RGB settings for Master, and then Blue channel, the sky breaches the limits almost immediately.
2) The second question is specifically for the shot mentioned above - I will add a screenshot below. I am not sure what was done on location to produce such a terrible blue tint, but it is in fact a brilliant shot for me to test on. I guess that a perfect shot would have been pretty useless as tool to hone my skills on! If I use no limiters on SACF3, I can get the brightness up quite nicely and remove a great deal of the tint, returning the shot to a very pleasant one - on my PC that is - How would I go about doing this, assuming the answer to question 1 is that I need those limiters enabled.
Well, I hope this makes sense, as it sounded good in my head, but Devereux junior has picked up his second cold at 6months, so the little sleep I was getting....has just been halved again!
Thanks guys.
Pierre
Hi Guys,
CFG_2451,
Thank you for the link - I will look into the book first thing in the morning. I have already built up a rather nice After Effects, Filming, Lighting and Green Screening library, I look forward to adding Colour Correction to it. I did assume that I would have to adhere to the PAL standards, but hoped that HD would do away with all the worry - Oh well....
Dave,
Thanks for the tip, I am a big fan of Andrew Devis, and have collected his entire After Effects basics tutorials so far - He has a great way of explaining the tools he uses, and I enjoy his clips. I will check out his Color Finesse tutorials tomorrow while I wait for the book.
Mylenium,
Thanks for the info. I had my previous iMac colour corrected to work under the specific lights we had in the old office, now I am in a new office, and I have a new PC. I hope that the monitor I have for the PC will be ok. We bought a nice large LED HD TV a while back, and the guy who came to do our colour correction explained that it was a bit of a waste, as it has so many "Auto" settings with no real explanation of what they do. As a result, he explained we would never know exactly what was going on, or if the TV was trying its own correction in the background - making what we see, completely different to other screens. I dont think we can get a production monitor at the moment, but Ill get them in to check what they can do with my PC screen. I still use an iMac, but it has the latest OS on, and according to the colour chaps, the software and calibration unit they use is incompatible with it. So unless I want to buy my own calibration units, Ill have to stick to the PC.
Once again, thanks to all so far. thes past few months have been an incredible journey, and withtout the input from the people on this forum, it would have been over ages ago!
(I am going to have to make a special mention of each of you in the shows credits!)
Pierre
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Date: 2009-06-12 13:01:48 -0700 (Fri, 12 Jun 2009)
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get the correct locales of batik and xerces jars into the build
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qa: i18n team (make sure they're all there)
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