Looking for Color Correction tutorial

Rich Parry wrote on 10/21/2023, 11:34 AM

In the past few years VP has gone from a paucity of CC (Color Correction) tools to a plethora. I do a pretty good job CC, but I’d like to watch a tutorial on the subject with examples. My videos are landscapes and nature. My goal is simple, make the blue sky bluer, the green grass greener, etc. I don't need heavy CG, just simple enhancements. Any suggestions for a CC tutorial with emphasis of why and when you would use a particular tool.

Thanks in advance,

Rich

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jetdv wrote on 10/21/2023, 12:01 PM

Since you said "make the blue sky bluer, the green grass greener," I'm assuming in your case "CC" = "Color Correction". When I first started reading this, I was reading "CC" as "Closed Caption"...

Rich Parry wrote on 10/21/2023, 12:39 PM

Thanks ... I update post to Color Correction

Former user wrote on 10/21/2023, 12:49 PM

@Rich Parry Hi, sorry I know nothing about 'CC' 🤭 but there's tutorials at the top of this page https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/tutorials-search/?query=color

RogerS wrote on 10/21/2023, 1:55 PM

Do the usual VEGAS gurus have advice on these topics? Otherwise general content should apply to VEGAS (3-way color corrector vs color curves vs selective HSL color adjustment).

Personally I'd get global white balance correct first in camera (consider using a gray card in the field if its significantly different from daylight), tweak it in post if needed (color grading panel's color temperature tool), get the contrast to where you want it using color curves (in color grading panel), and then do selective edits in Fx color corrector secondary or the color grading panel. Hue vs hue and hue vs saturation are especially useful.

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 10/22/2023, 12:28 AM

Since you said "make the blue sky bluer, the green grass greener," I'm assuming in your case "CC" = "Color Correction". When I first started reading this, I was reading "CC" as "Closed Caption"...

Ha, ha, 1st thing that came to my mind was Lauen Lane. Here's how I do it. Not really a tutorial, but done to try out text to voice. And help me remember and develop an edit flow:

Grazie wrote on 10/22/2023, 7:45 AM

I’ve always understood that following terms, motivations and understandings have held me in very good stead:

Colour Correction: My Motive would be, for example, to remove a visible, jarring Jump Cut from one Event to the next. Example could be the initial event on the Timeline is too Blue and clashes with the next event which is correctly set. Once I’ve CCed there’s no visible colour jump cut. I call these cjc as to the jc which somebody walking through a door and in the next instance is approaching the same door! And unless I’m wanting this Horror show effect, the movement should happen naturally.

Colour Grading : My Motive would be to impart to an Event an emotion not present when the Video has captured. Example could be turning Day to Night.

Using these two terms helps me to cut through what I’m doing and to decide on which set of tools to employ.

mark-y wrote on 10/22/2023, 6:19 PM

Filters I use with 8 bit source and projects:

Levels & Gamma = 85%
Saturation = 5%
Curves = 5%
Other = 5%

Filters I use with 10 bit source & projects:

Gain and Gamma = 85%
Lift = 5%
Curves = 5%
Other = 5%

Philosophical Overview:

Film and Video output is always some flavor of tricolor RGB
All other systems of correction are mapped to linear scale RGB output, whether by coarser or finer or logarithmic scale factors.
HSL, LAB, Hexadecimal, Pantone, HSV are fine for the people who are trained and practiced in them, or who like creating by fiddling with wheels and vectors and the like. But your topic is about Correction.
When learning video production from the ground up, learn RGBcmyK Decimal [0,1.0] and Integer [0,255],[0,1023] first, and read up on ST2084 and Kelvin scales later. That's all anyone but hobbyists need.