Re: [FCP-L] Question about color correction

If this is a balance problem throughout (like poor white balance) it should be easily remedied with the 3 way color correction tool.

Read both of Steve Hullfish's books, especially the second one, "The Art of Digital Ciolor Correction" Its an incredible educational tool on the subject and I highly recommend it.

George

--- On Tue, 11/24/09, Rieni <polderien@orange.fr> wrote:

From: Rieni <polderien@orange.fr>
Subject: [FCP-L] Question about color correction
To: FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 3:17 AM

 

I have a lot of footage shot with a Canon HDV camcorder XH A1 which

has a dirty, greenish color (partly because most was shot with

fluorescent lights, some camcorder chips seem to have a problem with

this). When I export a still and import in Photoshop and use a blue

colored photo filter with 25% opacity, the image looks much better.

Now I want to duplicate this in FCP to improve the video image.

Should I export the blue filter from Photoshop and import that into

the FCP project and add as a layer on top of the videoclips in the

sequence, give 25% opacity, of would this not make any sense at all,

or are there FCP built-in filters which achieve the same result?

I don't want to make the image more blue, because that is not what a

Photoshop photo filter does, it rather changes the balance between

the red, green and blue.

Any suggestions about books or DVDs for color correction self

studying are very welcome.

Thanks,

Rieni

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