Removing Blue Tint From Old 16mm Film

BobWard wrote on 2/3/2011, 7:18 PM

I have digitized some gun camera film from my missions in Vietnam during 1970. The resulting avi files have a noticeable bluish tint to the images. This is especially noticeable in the white smoke from phosphorous rocket impacts.

I have played around with the color corrector tools but am having a little trouble understanding how best to use those tools to get rid of the blue tint.

Any suggestions would be most helpful.

Bob

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 2/3/2011, 8:28 PM

Color Correction is an art requiring years of experience in order to master.
Your 70's film files not only contain color, but gamma and levels degradation that can only be partially compensated.

Search for older posts by user johnmeyer for a look at where to begin with this.
Posting an example or two on MediaFire will result in suggestions as well.

Byron K wrote on 2/3/2011, 11:56 PM

If you have VMS 10, maybe you can try to use white balance effect to get the clip where you know is a white area to get the color in the ball park then work with Color Corrector (2ndary) to fine tune..

Markk655 wrote on 2/4/2011, 9:21 AM

Some possible links for tutorials can be found here and

You can gain further tutorials on Youtube and Support>Training>Training Videos for Vegas pro which you can access at the top of this page.

Former user wrote on 2/4/2011, 11:07 AM

A simple trick, but not one everyone would condone, is to add a video track and make it a solid red color. The change the opacity of the track to make it almost opaque. This can sometimes improve by adding red to the blue without having to understand color correction.

Dave T2