Color Correction

jimingo wrote on 12/13/2005, 9:14 AM

I have a 40 minute track with hundreds of events. I want to apply color correction to certain sections of the track so I'm applying the color correction to the track instead of the individual events because it's much easier. In the portions of the track that I don't want the color correction I am putting a keyframe that is set to "reset to none" so no color correction is applied. But I noticed that even in the sections that have a "reset to none" color corection, the render times are increased as if it was applying color correction. I'm not really worried about the increase in render time but I'm wondering if a "reset to none" color correction would degrade the quality of the video ever so slightly as a color correction filter would.

Thanks,
-Jim

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 12/13/2005, 10:21 AM

FWIW, one way that is "better" and faster for this operation is to correct at the track as you've done, and then drop anything you don't want corrected to a new track. An even better way is to correct in the Media Pool for any lengthy clips, and then only those will be corrected when you slice out/edit pieces.

Yes, this will increase render time if you use the Reset to None, but it's not a significant hit. I haven't tested to see if it hits the image or not, but that's an easy check. Just render a small section to a new track.