Spot? Anyone? What is the best way to get 2 camera shots to look some what the same color wise.

david-ruby wrote on 6/23/2004, 7:38 AM

I have 2 camera angles from 2 diff cams that need to be as color/bright close to each other as possible. I know this will not be perfect, but I need to do this. Any suggestions would be great here.
Thanx as always.
David

Comments

busterkeaton wrote on 6/23/2004, 7:48 AM

do a search for "Vegas color correction tutorials"

Randy Brown wrote on 6/23/2004, 8:02 AM

If you can, white balance the 2 cams prior to your shoot.
Randy

Grazie wrote on 6/23/2004, 8:08 AM

Open them scopes and have a play . . The scopes are neat for analysing in a graphical way what is going on . . Adjust the colours and then rescope .. I think I got it about right?

Another thing is that Pike_Bishop is really good on this .. See if he has posted regarding this hereabouts . . Yeah? Of course there is the "Boy Billy" tutorial .. now what was the link? .. . oooo you can here the keyboards clacking already, can't yah?

Grazie

rs170a wrote on 6/23/2004, 8:22 AM

"now what was the link? .. . "

http://www.wideopenwest.com/~wvg/tutorial-menu.htm

You're welcome Grazie :-)

Grazie wrote on 6/23/2004, 8:25 AM

rs170a - WHAT A TEAM! . . We R The Champions! - In the net GOOOOALL . . Touch Down . .Thank you and goodnite!

Grazie

prairiedogpics wrote on 6/23/2004, 10:28 AM

I had to do this post-production; not sure if that fits your situation:
I just did a 90 minute project using Hi-8 footage and Mini-DV footage, both of which were not manually white balanced.
I put the video from each on separate tracks, then used Pan/Crop temporarity to show both tracks at once on the preview screen, which I then routed to an external monitor (my Panasonic TV, "calibrated" with an AVIA DVD). In the end all I needed to do was to add the 'red highlight" preset under Color Balance FX to the MiniDV footage, and a reduce the contrast on the Hi-8 footage (created and saved my own preset for that).
They matched perfectly (to my eye) on the external monitor and on the end DVD.
I was impressed!
Just take some time to analyze the footage and play around with the settings. When you're happy, save the preset and add it to the appropriate clisp/tracks.

I need to experiment with the scopes more...

Dan

rs170a wrote on 6/23/2004, 12:32 PM

Something tells me Grazie's been drinking WAY too much coffee :-)
Either that or watching too much soccer.

Mike
(aka rs170a)