Tutorial - iMovie 11 color correction

I know I did not cover "Auto" correction but other than that did I miss anything or say something incorrect?
http://bit.ly/cG00Ob

'm a newbie in video editing - normally I work in graphics like Photoshop - so I would like to know what kind of features I can use in iMove 09 to changes/optimize colors in a video clip?
Here is what the Video Inspector controls look like:

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IMovie 09 - color correction features?

Hi all - I have just returned from a great holliday in the Philippines and have for the first time ever taken some underwater video with a IXUS 980IS camera. Sizes are about 200 - 300 Mb/3-4 mins. The colors are ok, but I would like to optimize the colors if possible.
I'm a newbie in video editing - normally I work in graphics like Photoshop - so I would like to know what kind of features I can use in iMove 09 to changes/optimize colors in a video clip?
I have no idea of what quality the clips are - I just used the "best" option on the camera.
I have looked at the Apple websites for a manual, but can't find it - all I have found was the manual for the Final Cut Express 4.0 - and I can see that this software can help me, but it maybe a bit to advanced for me.
Have any one worked with the IMovie 09 - to give me a hint, please...
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'm a newbie in video editing - normally I work in graphics like Photoshop - so I would like to know what kind of features I can use in iMove 09 to changes/optimize colors in a video clip?
Here is what the Video Inspector controls look like:

Color corrections Premier CS3 !

Dear friends !!
Last night i was browsing through this forums and few other pages on the net and found a place ,like a tutorial about CS3 color corrections
I very much believe that was somewhere in this forums , where it shows step by step how to do color correction, I remember there was a picture of some kind of wooden cabin with a picture of drop and it was showing the graphs as well .
Any idea ? please
very much preciated .

I do not have the tutorial in question, but I can at least get you started with the effects you probably will be using. The two main CC's I will use are either the Fast Color Correction or the Three Way Color Correction filters. You can also get something out of this tutorial.
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/sareen_aanarav/basics_of_color_correction/video-tu torial.php

Looking for a particular color correction tutorial

I am looking for an online tutorial on how to do color correction if the video one is working with has color bars. This happens on a lot of analog videotapes that come to me. I know what my scopes are suppposed to look like when analyzing color bars, but I need something that shows me how to get from A to B.
If I Google some varient of "color correction video color bars," all I get is information on calibrating monitors.
I am using Premiere CS5.5
Thanks in adavnce for any response!
J. D.

APP - Layer...
Also... Check this site for looking at APPs.. I've posted this before but it's a good site. It just started up a week or so ago.
http://androidapplications.com/

Secondary color correction tutorial

Great tutorial by Karl Soulé, check it out.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/short-and-suite/using-the-3way-coco-as-a-secondary-color-correct or/

That was a good video.
I like the stacking ability.
One thing I really liked was that it was created in HD.
I hate watching videos where they show the interface and its small or blurry. This one was nice and clean.
It also makes you want a RED camera too.
GLenn

Very Good Premiere Pro Color Correction Tutorial

Hello Everyone.
This video Tutorial is By Mr. Jeff Sengstack from Lynda.com
He Is an excellent Instructor. Very good Video Tutorial..
Watch the Online Video Course Premiere Pro: Color Correction and Enhancement

Have to pay to view them, so not much use.

Secondary Color Correction End Softness

Here is a little something that has driven me insane across all versions (sans 8.1 which doesn't work on my machine)...
Lets say you are using secondary color correction to mask out the sky above a mountain range - you know, like every single video tutorial on the subject does - so you get it dialed in as much as you can until you are left with that nasty pixel fakey line along where the heavens meet the earth which screams "hey look everyone this guy is faking the sky color here". But you don't admit defeat yet and you of course go for that trusty almost magical "End Softness" slider. You drag it a bit and see that it indeed does blend/feather/fix your SCC mask up quite nicely except one glaring problem. The End Softness adjustment has also feathered in the very far left/right outside edges of your clip/frame as well - rendering the usefulness of the secondary color correction ... well... completely non-useful.
If it helps to clarify what I mean, the unwanted side effect I am describing also happens when you use Gaussian blur (premiere, photoshop, etc) but is remedied when you simply check the little "Repeat Edge Pixels" box.
Anyone else ever have their secondary color correction attempts utterly deflated by this occurrence?

I would imagine it is something to do with how softness or blurring samples surrounding pixels. When you reach the edge of the frame the edge pixels won't haven't neighbours all the way round for the effect to look at. As you said it is like the gaussian blur. Why there is no 'Repeat Edge Pixels' option, I don't know. I think you are possibly wasting your time asking the why on these forums. As long as you can get to the how, then be happy you achieve the desired outcome you are after

Color correcting in french final cut

Hi everyone,
I'm using a french version of final cut pro HD 4.5. I can't find the color correction tab with the three cercles, does anyone use a french version so I can fallow propely the path that will lead me to make my color corrections. If not, maybe you can guide me in my task: I shot a video with a white machine. When I did the shooting, I wanted to create a look that cannot identifie any space or room, so I've used white foam core. The problem is that even if I did my white balance, my background and the machine is not white enought to give the impression of a " no where place". It's been a while since I did editing and I've never use color correction before. I know that there are tutorial that exist but time and money are a matter of facte that I can't purchase them for the moment. If anyone can help me and guide me in my task, because I've lost a lot of precious time trying to find a solution, it would be very appreciate.

Jacques,
Merci énormément, j'aurais dû écrire avant, je n'aurais pas perdu autant de temps à trouver que c'était Étalonnage qui correspondait au Color correction.
Maintenant, comment je fais pour isoler mon objet de mon fond et de plus, mon fond n'est pas le même blanc partout, est-ce qu'il y un moyen d'uniformiser le tout sans que mon objet principal soit surexposé?
DAVID,
Your answer was helpful but Jacques was able to identifie the exact term wich help me a lot because the word in french is quite different then color correction.
Now, how I isolate my object from my background and moreover, my background is not the same white everywhere, it there a way of standardizing the whole background without my principal object being over-exposed?

I just LOVE Color Correcting in FCP X

Don't ask me about the technical stuff but for some reason, I can now get great color (colour really) from some clips I shot back in 2006. The stuff I shoot these days is usually very consistent but these old clips muddy and have severe colour casts.
The new Color Board in FCP X seems to cope really well.
Being able to drag either of the four buttons to the colour that needs adjustment, slide it up or down for a rough adjustment, and then a tiny bit to the left or right to perfect the job is so user-friendly.
I disliked the old color wheels on FCP Studio, where it all seemed much less precise unless you were able to move a mouse in a perfect circle.
Anyone else have any thoughts on it?

My on-going off-and-on project has been editing and moving my old home movies to DVD so they can languish away digitally instead of as VHS tapes. (This includes quite a few Super-8mm films which were converted to VHS in the mid 80s, so its still all VHS.)
Sprinkled in with this are more current home movie projects such as "How we spent our year" Travelmentaries (commonly called vacation movies), and an annual DVD of our Boy Scout Troop outings for the year.
First I have to say, this has all been hobby and goes along in fits and starts. FCP 3 got old and clunky when it had to be pushed thru Rosetta like a meat grinder, and I messed with iMovie until FCE 4 came along. If I had dedicated myself, probably would have finished all the VHS stuff long ago, but mostly worked on stuff when it occurred to me that peeps in the Super-8 stuff, for instance, might actually enjoy seeing it all again 40 years later. And the color correction stuff was tedious and wearing, making anticipation of the next project less inviting.
In all this, doing a limited amount of color correction and sharpening worked pretty well. But I have to say that having all the parts (color, saturation, exposure) right there working the same with the same 4 "grab and drag" method has actually made the whole job far less imposing.
The one thing I miss about the color wheel, however, is that whatever color over-tinted the clip, dragging the "button" directly away from it pretty much settled the problem. For instance, if shot inside with the yellowish incandescent tinting, blue was the color needed, and it was opposite yellow.
It took a bit to get used to the color bar's method of removing yellow in maybe light tones area and adding a little blue, perhaps, in the mid-tones. But I also quickly found that by playing with the exposure in either area, I can sharpen those old fuzzy VHS tapes -- something I never noticed was happening until I tried it. The sharpen effect works pretty good as a start (used unsharp mask in FCE), but the color bar really sharpens things up, if not overdone.
Personally, I find I am anticipating spending lots of time on my "restoration" projects now, all because of the ease of use and power of FCPX. I finally finished one I started (converting the VHS tapes to DV) in 2009, although in all fairness, it was an extra four hours left over after having processed at least as much at the time. (To make things less intimidating, I have also moved the VHS player and now convert the tapes directly to disk using an otherwise now unused Canon DV camera as an AV to DV convertor.
But I am certainly one of those apparently targetted by Apple with the new FCPX at the expense of losing their loyal professional base. And the Color Bar's ease of use is a major part of that.

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

Color Correcting Video

I have a completed video that I made in iMovie. I'd like to know if it's possible to use photoshops color correcting abilities for my completed video.
I know how to alter color in photoshop, but I don't know how to make a seperate color adjustment for each micro clip within the completed video. I can only get it to apply my color adjustments to the whole video, not just the section that I wanted edited.
I hope that makes sense
Thanks in advance!

I think I answered my own question. I had to drag (as in editing) each adjustment layer to the part of the video that I wanted adjusting. I uneded up having a lot of adjustment layers...

Color correcting advice

Hi everyone,
I have absolutely zero experience with color correcting, but a project that I am working on seems to be in desperate need of it. I am wondering if anyone here can walk me through some steps to get this looking better?
One camera was shot with a panasonic P2-- here's a snapshot:
http://www.collinatorstudios.com/www/tp2.jpg
On a monitor especially, the colors are more on the blue side, the black of the clothes are very black...
The other camera was show with on minidv-- here's a snapshot:
http://www.collinatorstudios.com/www/tminidv.jpg
This one appears to have more red in it.. so blues are a bit more purple, and there is a lot more gray in the black...
So I just would love it if someone could tell me what plugin(s) they would recommend to correct this, and even what settings on the plugin might fix this. I was messing with the built-in color tools but couldn't seem to get the results I was going for.
Thanks.

If you can't afford him...I am available for a BIT cheaper...but note that I am not as good.
OR...you can buy this tutorial DVD and see what you can do:
http://www.rippletraining.com/colorcorrection_for_final_cut_pro.html
But nothing will match what a pro can do. But if you must do it yourself, this is a great DVD.
Shane

Color correcting with curves

I'm following an old tutorial on color correcting images from digital cameras using curves.
1. Is using the curves to color correct more accurate than using levels?
2. It has me enter for shadows: r=20, g=20, b=20 highlights:r=240, g=240, b=240 and midtones: r=128, g=128. b=128 and to save them as defaults. What are these values based on? Are these values good to use for all digital images?
3. It also has me set the default RGB working space to Adobe RGB (1998). Is this still the best color space for working with digital camera images?
Thanks

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StanWelks wrote:
1. Is using the curves to color correct more accurate than using levels?
2. It has me enter for shadows: r=20, g=20, b=20 highlights:r=240, g=240, b=240 and midtones: r=128, g=128. b=128 and to save them as defaults. What are these values based on? Are these values good to use for all digital images?
3. It also has me set the default RGB working space to Adobe RGB (1998). Is this still the best color space for working with digital camera images?
No, No, and No.
The long answers are more complicated.
Curves is not more accurate than levels, just different. Curves is just another way to manipulate image data. You can do more complex things with Curves than you can with levels - for example by setting multiple points. Though I'm not quite sure what specific defaults you're being instructed to change, I don't think I'd change any defaults per one tutorial if you're not familiar with Photoshop. Use Photoshop with Adobe's defaults until you understand why you'd want to change them. Otherwise you'll get used to it working a different way than everyone else, and that could cause ongoing confusion.
Your working space choice is basically defining the default way you want to work, and there's no one "right" setting. Your choice will be highly dependent on what you do with your images after you Photoshop them, and how you want it to act when there are choices to be made. Again, I'd suggest leaving it on Adobe's default (sRGB) until after you read up on color management and really understand why you want to use one color space or another. It's a big, complex subject that will take some time to get one's head around, but it's well worth doing.
-Noel

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 correcting wrong white balance

I apologize if this question is simplistic in nature but I am still an amateur editor trying to fix some of the videos I have done.
As a scuba diver, I am constantly white balancing underwater. However, occassionaly, I while white balance where my subject has the correct color but the background is more redish instead of the nice deep blue sea. What is the easiest way to color correct the background of a video shot without affecting the frontground subject?
I imagine levels is a great tool but when I attempted to play around with the numerous settings, I kept on affecting the subject as well as the background. What is the easiest way to correct the background? Thanks.

Here is a good tutorial on what Colin is describing
3-way Color Corrector for secondary color effects

Tutorial - iMovie 11 color correction

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