color question

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 9/15/2007, 10:22 PM

I've just watched 'Man on fire' (with Denzel Washington). The movie is located in Mexico City and the colours are absolutely wonderful: the yellows and greens and reds are very bright, but the shadows and dark area's are really dark. I've done an image search on the internet to paste some images here, but it's to no avail, as the colours get lost on this medium. Still, any hints on how to get this result (camera settings, vegas effects...)

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Eugenia wrote on 9/17/2007, 2:28 PM

No, this is not what it does. Download this file, see the original, the Magic Bullet one and my best effort (original.png, mbullet.png and eugenia.png). No matter what you try with Vegas, you won't be able to reproduce what Magic Bullet does for that preset, because it applies an orange gradient ONLY for the mid/lows and it does so only for 2/3s of the image (from the top).
http://www.gnomefiles.org/files/vegas/miami.zip

ADB wrote on 9/18/2007, 2:32 PM

The aav6cc site says: "All six color vectors can be adjusted independently" ... and my tests certainly show that this is true. Of course it doesn't do gradients.

Eugenia wrote on 9/18/2007, 2:40 PM

It doesn't do it the same way. For example, in my test shot its yellow color adjustment changes my green grass, while MB does not do that. The two plugins don't do exactly the same thing.

ADB wrote on 9/20/2007, 2:22 PM

Yes, that's what I said it my earlier post. 6cc works on 6 color vectors. Try changing the red. I'm not suggesting that MB works in the same way in fact I have no idea how it works.

Eugenia wrote on 9/20/2007, 2:33 PM

ADB, I have tried everything. You can NOT reproduce what MB does, because MB uses a different algorithm, gradients and conditions that are not possible to reproduce with a stock utility.