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Color Correction Tests

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Hey guys. Here are some simple color correction tests that I did inside of Premiere Pro.

Of course the compression is all messed up from YouTube but it's still bearable.

Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCvciKgIP-o

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Having something to judge what the difference is would be helpful. It looks cool, all desert.
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Yeah it would be nice to see a before/after. Because to us, that was just a very yellow video of some random dogs!
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Haha! Okay, I'll do a before and after. Thanks for the advice.
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Okay, here is the before and after.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCvciKgIP-o

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It's just more... yellow. The footage is a bit overexposed I think.
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It's not just more yellow. The saturation and contrast were adjusted, then the hue was adjusted (to make it yellowish) and finally the curves to crush the blacks.

This was just a yellow-biased test... Every film tends to have a color bias to it (ie, The Matrix = green/blue, etcetera) so I went for a yellowish tint. This was to add an 'atmosphere' to the footage, and I purposefully made it over color-corrected.

And I shot it slightly overexposed too...

By the way, if I was trying to 'realistically' color correct it, I would've done it a lot differently. What do you guys think a realistic color correction would be? (Hollywood tends to over color-correct these days).
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Realistic would usually be probably just a hint of yellow, a hint of saturation and the blacks 'crushed' ever so slightly (maybe using curves to bring out the mid tones a bit)

But yeah, looks good.

Not sure if it deserves a whole thread because to you it's whatever your creative juices feel (unless your footage is unwatchable, there's no right or wrong way of grading like this) and to us it's a 'very yellow video of some random dogs' like I said.

Nice to see people doing this though :)
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Ornsack wrote:Realistic would usually be probably just a hint of yellow, a hint of saturation and the blacks 'crushed' ever so slightly (maybe using curves to bring out the mid tones a bit)
Now add a dash of story and place it in the oven for 15 mins. at 350
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Zacatac927 wrote:
Ornsack wrote:Realistic would usually be probably just a hint of yellow, a hint of saturation and the blacks 'crushed' ever so slightly (maybe using curves to bring out the mid tones a bit)
Now add a dash of story and place it in the oven for 15 mins. at 350
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Good one. It was SUPPOSED to be a yellow video of random dogs silly. ;)
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Very interesting. In the case of many shots, color correction is really just a tint, saturation, and levels added. So in that aspect you did well. Nice music too...what was it? It sounded like Edgen.
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