Auto Colour Correction??

GaryV wrote on 3/10/2008, 9:03 AM
Hello,
I've got a video track with several hundred short clips (5-20 seconds each) of hockey video from my son's team. These clips were taken in various hockey arenas and thus there is lots of different lighting conditions. When I did a similar project last year with Pinnacle Studio, I successfully used Pinnacle's Auto Colour Correct filter, applied to each clip to get a pretty decent colour balance across all the clips, and a good white balance correction (removing effects of fluorescent lighting in arenas) to have ice that looks white instead of yellowish.

This year I've switched to Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 instead of Pinnacle and am loving the package so far... Way more stable!!! However, I can't figure out how to do an automatic colour correction on the entire video track. So ....

What is the easiest way to do an automatic colour correction on each clip in a video track?

Many thanks in advance,
Gary

Comments

Former user wrote on 3/10/2008, 9:16 AM
Do a search for Vegas Filters by Mike Crash. He has an AUTO LEVELS filter that will attempt to do what you want.

Dave T2
John_Cline wrote on 3/10/2008, 10:04 AM
www.mikecrash.com

Click on the "Vegas Filters" link on the left.
craftech wrote on 3/10/2008, 10:17 AM
If the lighting is consistent at the games, you might find it more useful to use the Sony Color Corrector filter on the whole project (Video Output FX) found in the Preview Window.
Find something white (part of a uniform?) and use the negative eyedropper on the High color wheel to take a sample of it. Do the same with something black using the Low color wheel. Give it a name and save it as a preset (Save Preset).

John
busterkeaton wrote on 3/10/2008, 3:20 PM
If I was color correcting this, I would have the files from each arena in its own folder in Project Media.

Then I would set up a track for each arena.

Track 1 - Toronto
Track 2 - Buffalo
Track 3 - Detroit

And then put the clips on the proper tracks. Then I would use track FX to color correct and entire track. (or you could color correct, one clip and then select many clips, right click and choose "Paste Event Attributes." This would apply the FX to every clip [also any pan and crop info, so you would want to color correct first.])

This way each group of clips would have its proper color balance.

I was going to suggest Adding Event atrributes at the bin or Project Media level, but you can' Add event attributes at that level. Media FX does not have the equivalent.

Anybody know of any way to Add event Attributes to clips not on timeline?