As it's Thursday: Dumb Q#2! - 2 Cammy Colour Correction?

Grazie wrote on 7/24/2003, 5:23 AM
I want to colour correct Cam2 to Cam1. Can I pick up Cam1 settings and stick 'em to Cam2? If someone tells it can be done, I'll go figure - okay? If I can't I don't wanna waste time attempting. - Where's BB when you need him - I'll just slip on my Crash Helmet first . . uurrrggh . . okay BB, give me your worst!

Grazie

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GaryKleiner wrote on 7/24/2003, 10:07 AM
If you are trying to match to cameras, see my response to > Color Correction : How to match skin tones ? <

If you are trying to apply the SAME settings, then you could save the settings you've made as a preset and appy it wherever you have the color correction applied.

Also, you could copy the event (Ctrl/c) and then right click on the other event and Paste Event Attributes with the caveat that this will paste ALL event attributes, such as pan/crop.

Gary Kleiner
Grazie wrote on 7/24/2003, 12:51 PM
Thanks Gazza! - What I was after, and perhaps the "dumbness" in my question I should have realised, was that, whatever "colour" properties in Cam1 - something about the Video Scopes - could be "carried over" to Cam2. That's the real question. Yes, Paste attribute I understand, it was rather the colour, or whatever, attributes of Cam1 to be assigned to Cam2.

Regards

Garzie
BillyBoy wrote on 7/24/2003, 2:16 PM
The video scopes only show the result. They can't be used directly to capture a range of settings. Copying over the attributes from Event A and dumping them in Event B also isn't of much help in of itself. Its a starting point so you level the playing field so you don't try to compensate for something you shouldn't be. Take a look at my tutorial #9 for an idea of what's possible. As you'll see the original camera two shot was very orange. While I made it a good deal closer to camera one, it don't match perfectly. How close you get depends on a host of variables which is going to be different with each source video. I explain some of the problems I ran into. As someone else said in a similar thread you can use the preview window with the clipboard to get an idea how close you're getting. I suppose if you really put some effort into it by using the secondary color corrector and isolating each object you could get a good deal closer. In other words you may need to apply 3, 4, 10, 20 seperate instances of the secondary color corrector. Then if needed modify them with keyframes across the project.

Grazie wrote on 7/24/2003, 2:26 PM
Thanks for taking the time to respond. - Today I've achieved all that I needed to do using a "light hand", and was able to match quite well the Cam2 clip in question.

Grazie