Do I color correct angles before making multiclip?

Hi guys,
I have two individual angles I'm going to sync and make a multiclip out of. One of my clips is horribly bright and requires some serious fixing in Color.
Do I color correct or add filters to the individual angles BEFORE making the two angles into one multiclip? Or is there some way to color correct the entire angle after making it into a multiclip?
--also, any reason why my canvas when changing angles in a multiclip would show it in 4:3 while the actual video is 16:9 in both the viewer and timeline?
Thanks

You could color correct before if you like, if your angle is rock solid and the changes will be consistent throughout. I don't do it that way but have been tempted.
If you do it after finishing the multiclip edit then you will need to copy one color corrected clip and then paste attributes to the other appropriate clips.
As a rule I color correct when my edit is finished.

Similar Messages

  • Color correct clips before making muliticlip?

    Hello,
    I would like to color correct my three camera clips before making a multiclip to save time, but the video scopes will not allow me to see my changes when I color correct. I have to drag each clip to the timeline and color correct each clip before I see modifications to the videoscopes. Even then, I have to use only the clips in the browser to make the mulitclip. Is there a more efficient process to put my clips through a filter(s) process (ie..color correction, de-interlace) before making a multiclip?
    Thanks,
    Jordan

    Hello Andy,
    Yahoo! Thank you Andy for your information. You just saved me a lot of time. Cheers!
    Jordan:>)

  • Color Correcting an Already-Edited Multiclip

    So, I'm not that bright. I edited a 2 hour multiclip only to realize at the end that I wanted to do some color correcting on one of the angles to match the other two. Is there a way for me to color correct an entire angle all at once without having to re-edit the multiclip or copy and paste the filter onto each clip in the multiclip? Thanks.

    Oh yeah ! paste attributes etc etc, it's brilliant, digital editing isn't it!
    I was not quite certain you wanted the same cc for the whole 2 hour clip!
    Haven't you got a lot of coninuity light problems ?
    Pity I was hoping to find out if the reconnection worked. It should do if you had time code and the other meta data is the same, but maybe the cc instructions would interfere!
    Best wishes
    john

  • Color Correcting In CC - Making Whites Actually White

    Okay so my main question is,
    Are there any functions or plugins where I can look at the clip, and then click on a spot that I know should be white (But its not because the camera wasn't white balanced 100%), and have After effects automatically adjust so it is white.
    Kind of like how you set white balance on a camera, where you hold up a white card or other completely white object, click the white balance, and the camera automatically adjust to make it white.
    Except I want to be able to just click on a point in the footage and have it adjust everything.
    If this is not an option, then are there any good tips for white balancing the footage?
    IE: I film a subject against a white wall, the camera wasn't white balanced so the background appears to be light beige. I want to click the background in AE and have it color correct and make it white.
    Thanks

    Finding perfect white is always a challenge and it may foul up other things in your shot because white walls are reflective and if someone is wearing a blue shirt against a white wall, white may not be white. Setting white may get you in the ball park, but it is usually only the first step in color grading. You usually want to push highlights to one hue and shadows to another.
    The procedure and the tools used to color grade a shot depend entirely on the shot. For most of my work Colorists II is my preferred tool. Some shots require more than one instance of colorist to get to where I want to go. Color finesse is also good, but for some work, and this depends entirely on the shot,  Auto Color is all that I need. No matter what technique you use to grade your shots you need some kind of scope or histogram that you understand so you can know where you are pushing the levels in the shot. I'm always checking areas of a shot with the Info Panel to make sure I know what I've done to the color values. Most of all, good color grading takes time to learn and a very thorough knowledge of color.

  • Color correction in FC Pro when working with multiclips

    Is there someway to preserve the color correction I apply in the sequence timeline to a clip, and to preserve the motion attributes I apply (i.e. it's in the sequence, then I double click to show it in the clip viewer and make adjustments) when I then include that clip (through the bin) in a multiclip?
    Basically I want to have to avoid repeating angle-specific corrections for each edit as I go along in a multiclip.
    MikeR

    I tried applying corrections to each before making the multiclip and it worked this time. I think what fooled me is that the 4-in-1 window reflects the original clips. But canvas playback shows the changes in the selected angle.

  • How to color correct a multiclip

    hi,
    i'm going to edit a multiclip ( 2 angles )
    since one angle need a costant color correction and the other angle a different one, which is the best and fastest way to proceed?
    thanks

    apply any constant grade to the 2 clips BEFORE you make them into a multiclp. you can either correct them by dragging the color corrector onto them whilst they are in the viewer and correcting there, or by editing them into a sequence first, applying the correction, and then dragging the corrected clip back from the sequence into the bin. create the multiclip form these already corrected clips ... only then will the applied grade be carried automatically through to each clip instance in the edit
    if you have already edited and now want to apply global corrections after the fact, then you need to correct one representative clip from one of the angles, then use the Find command to find (and select) all other occurrences of that angle in your completed sequence, and then drag that same correction onto the selected clips ... repeat for each angle

  • Color Correcting Multiclip

    I have alread compiled my multiclip and I am wanting to color correct one camera angle to match the other two.
    I've read you are supposed to do this before you edit the multi clip but alas I didn't do that. 
    So is there an easy way to correct this one angle?  If I correct the first instance of that clip in the timeline it just does it to that first clip and not all of the remaining clips.
    Any thoughts?

    Alright, thanks again for taking the time to help me out.
    So I made a quick screen recording for you to look at instead of a screen shot.  Here it is.
    http://youtu.be/IKSzWsZRgSc

  • Workflow KeyLight Before Color correction?

    WHat is the best workflow when working in green screen.
    Should the color removal (green screen). in Keylight  come before any color correction?
    In this specific case I am dealing with a medium shot of a person. Talking head, not much movement.
    I assume getting rid of the green screen should come first since then I am only am dealing with the remaining image (specifically the medium shot of the person.)  For example, I need to enhance the hue a bit on the person's face, and it seems to me that first getting rid of the green, making it alpha/transparent, first makes sense.
    Or does it?
    Thanks
    Rowby

    rowby wrote:
    ...seems to me that first getting rid of the green, making it alpha/transparent, first makes sense.
    Or does it?
    Generally - yes, but you may find situations, where pre-key adjustments are unavoidable. The real question is, whether the green is green enough, if you get my meaning. There may be situations, where you need to compensate for insufficient lighting or color shifts from non-ideal lighting conditions (sunlight shifting colors, for instance). In those cases, you would try to clean up the green as much as you can without regard to the rest of the footage - as long as they facilitate generating a clean matte, nobody will mind. Once you have gnerated a proper Alpha, it is easy to introduce it into an untreated footage via matte modes and channel operations. That's the one thing you should keep in mind. In most cases of course you will want to do a direct key and if there is enough contrast, there should be no problems. Indeed you would then do the color correction after the key. This also applies to compressed footage like HDV or AVCHD - any pre-key corrections may in fact have an adverse effect and make things harder, as they also increase the intensity of artifacts. Anyway, all theory aside, you only know when you try. The more you do this stuff, the better wil lyou be able to gauge what's required.
    Mylenium

  • 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.

  • Multiclips, Color Correction & PowerBook G4

    This is the first time I have tried to use a multi-camera edit in Final Cut. I have a two-camera shoot.
    I have two questions...
    A) What is the most efficient setting for doing multiclip editing (2-camera) on a PowerBook G4 (1.5 Ghz). Can it be done where I can switch from one angle to the other on the fly? Now, when I try making a multiclip I get the red, need to render warning. I render the clips then, when I run them and change from one angle to the other the software stops. I have to click on play to get things started again.
    B) I have a problem where one camera's tape appears to have it's white balance set differently than the other one. What is the best way to make an adjustment so that they will both match? I have lots of clips. Do I make a global change and then apply it to all the individual clips, then make a multiclip or do I make the multiclip first then apply some sort of change?
    TIA

    I tried applying corrections to each before making the multiclip and it worked this time. I think what fooled me is that the 4-in-1 window reflects the original clips. But canvas playback shows the changes in the selected angle.

  • Denoise before or after color corrections?

    I am using a CHV filter to denoise a HDV footage that was shooted with auto gain on. It works very well.
    However, I want to get the blacks darker. Should I do the color correction before or after the denoise process?
    Considering the fact that making the blacks darker will increase the "grainy" aspect of the video, what is the best way to do this?
    Thanks.

    I tested both, before and after the CHV denoise filter. It`s quite similar, but I tend to prefer after.
    I`m not thinking about crushing the black to denoise the clip
    The CHV filter worked very well, the grainy aspect is gone.
    Now I need to get the dark areas of the image to be black. From what I understand, the blacks should be at 0 on the waveform monitor.
    When I get make the blacks darker, to be at 0, the grainy aspect comes back a little bit. I guess is a physical thing and there is no miracle solution...
    Any suggestion is welcomed...
    Thanks.

  • Color correct 3 camera angles

    this might be a stupid question. i know how to open the color correction window and bring up the wfm/vts/rgb parade and then scope/eyeball color correct with 3 way cc. is there some kind of automated way fcp5 in multiclip can match camera angles? i saw an eyedropper. can you sample white and black and match this way? thx in advance

    See III-471 of your user manual. This is accessible from the "Help" menu. I think that's as automated as it gets.
    JC

  • Color correcting in multiclip

    just finsihed an mc with 6 angles. 1000's of edits. can i color correct one angle and have it effect that angle's edits throughout the whole timeline? i would hate to have to go to every edit and copy attributes. thx in advance!

    This is the Final Cut Express forum.

  • What to do about bright spots before color correcting

    I have a video of the Lion King show from the Animal Kingdom at Disney World. I shot it on HDV using a tripod, although I occasionally zoomed or panned the camera. This is not an important project, just one I would like to finally get done seeing as how I have had the footage since 2006. Procrastination is a bit of a problem for me as you might infer from that. The export might be my first Blu-Ray export, but more likely it will just end up on Vimeo.
    The problem with spotlights is probably familiar to many of you so I thought I would ask for some advice before I even begin. My initial thought was to use a gradient matte over the top 1/3 or 1/2 of the frame at times to dim the spotlights before using an adustment layer to color correct each section. A vignette so to speak that would help focus attention on stage. Or, perhaps a large collection of little circular gradient mattes over each of the brighter spotlights (using AE)
    I am not planning on zooming in to the video in Premiere Pro. The shots are the shots and they are staying that way as far as I can tell, unless something really screams for that and I can get away with it. There are quite a few changes in lighting. I attached three examples of what I will be dealing with.
    What I would really like to know is how other people would go about this. I haven't researched Speedgrade yet, mainly because I think I might be able to handle this in Premiere Pro and After Effects. Although it may be the perfect opportunity to learn Speedgrade. I have a subscription to the Creative Cloud, so any Adobe product is fair game. I am not planning on buying any third party tools. This is just a hobby project, and I can not justify any additional expense for it.
    I don't want to over do the correction. The yellow and blue tints are really there, but I would like to reduce the tint so that just the hint of yellow or blue is visible. I have a feeling that I am going to have to spend some time adjusting curves to deal with some of the dimmer lighting like the last image. Or, is there a set of magic parameters I can change to keep this simple and get close to my goal without a huge effort. 
    There will be no cutting other than what might be needed at points where colors change dramatically. I would really like to see everything keyframed so all changes are smooth if that makes sense technically. The video is 00;31;31;02 in duration. This is going to be a pretty big project for having zero cuts. The longest I have ever done without a cut as far as I can remember.
    Here are three sample frames. Any and all suggestions are welcome. How would you start?

    Oh, I know about the Disney issues. I just like to use my Roku to watch HD videos from Vimeo on my HDTV. It depends on the footage. If it has to be pristine, then Vimeo might not be the best choice, but for most of my footage, it is good enough. Most of the people I show my vacation videos to are friends and family so I just keep the video private and nobody bothers me about it. So far at least

  • Color Correction - Multiclip

    FCP 5.1.2 - Mac Pro - I have been working with a MultiClip that I created from 4 clips. I applied the Color Corrector 3 Way filter to a section of the Multiclip on the timeline but then realized that I did not apply it to the entire timeline.
    Is there a way to remove video filters that have been applied? What about after I have rendered the Video in the timeline?
    At this point, I selected the entire multiclip timeline and applied color correction - the section where I had already applied color correction now received a double dose so it's looking blue.
    Thanks.
    Mike

    Save your color correction by dragging an instance of
    it to your browser.
    Select all in the sequence, that has the color
    correction(s) and control click on one to select
    "Remove Attributes". Then select filters from the
    window that opens. This removes all instances of
    filters from the selected clips. Then just drag that
    saved CC filter from the Browser to the selected
    clips in the Timeline window.
    Don't worry about the render files, they'll trash
    themselves... then re render.
    Jerry
    Jerry - It took me a little while to get back to my FCP project. I did as you instructed. Worked like a charm.
    Thanks so much.
    Mike

Maybe you are looking for