restoration of color

roebidog wrote on 4/26/2004, 6:16 PM

Can anybody tell me how to revert colors taken on a handycam. I took some movies and had the back light on without seeing it, my clips are all bright nearly white. Is there a way to revert the colors to a more natural way ? The shots can not be retaken, as this was a one time event. Thanks for your help.

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jtfrazer wrote on 4/27/2004, 6:01 AM

Hi,

You could try adding Video FX in the affected area - There's one for brightness and contrast and another for color balance. Each of these FX have sliders that allow you to adjust the amount of correction to be added.

Jim

roebidog wrote on 4/27/2004, 5:23 PM

Thanks Jim, the result is good enough. How can I save my clips in an other format than vf. so I can use them in an other project not using screenblast, like an mpg file?
John

Steve Grisetti wrote on 4/28/2004, 6:20 AM

Choose Make Movie and then Save to Disk and save your file as a DV-NTSC AVI. (Or DV-PAL if you're in Europe.)

This is the most flexible format to save your movie in -- it's easily editable and you can even port it back out to your camera with no loss of quality.

jtfrazer wrote on 4/28/2004, 6:42 AM

John,

There was a post in another thread on this that said you'll need to render the clips to MPG rather than "save" them in a different format.

Jim

Chienworks wrote on 4/28/2004, 10:17 AM

If you're going to use the clips in some other editing software then DV .avi files are a MUCH better choice than MPEG.