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rmack350 wrote on 4/13/2005, 10:47 AM
There are a few ways I can think of. The first and most obvious way is to have all three cameras shoot the same chip chart prior to shooting and have an engineer there to set up the cameras from the Get-go.

If that's not possible then you could still shoot the charts but do the correction in Vegas.

If you don't have charts you could find a point in time where they are all shooting something flat. The problem is that light may be a bit different from angle to angle so it would have been nice to get all the cameras in the same spot shooting the same thing for color reg purposes.

What I often do for stills is copy a swatch of what I want to match too and then put it on a layer above the thing I want to correct. Then I can see a good comparison between the two as I do the color correction.

Rob Mack
JackW wrote on 4/13/2005, 11:06 AM
Kevin, I think there was a thread dealing with this four or five weeks ago. A search of the forum should turn it up. I believe there is also a discussion on VAAST, and Billy Boy's color correction tutorial should be a help, too.

Jack
GaryKleiner wrote on 4/13/2005, 1:38 PM
>What I often do for stills is copy a swatch of what I want to match too and then put it on a layer above the thing I want to correct. Then I can see a good comparison between the two as I do the color correction.<

To easily compare while you are color correcting, use the preview split screen mode.

>Display your reference footage and clcik on the preview window's Copy Snapshot to Clipboard icon.

>Hit the preview window's Splitcreen button (after setting the dropdown menu to Clipboard).

>Display, or even play the footage you are correcting

Wherever you draw out a rectagle on the preview, you will see your reference showing through.

Gary
MH_Stevens wrote on 4/14/2005, 12:04 PM
BillyBoy has a tutorial on this somewhere on the web.