Hey everybody here's a Vegas Pro challenge for you: correct the GoPro Protune source to match the reference (or to taste, whichever you prefer). To sweeten the pot, I will refer to the winning poster as "boss" for the remainder of the year!
More specifically, I've gotten reasonable confident correcting GP Protune when it comes to white balance, using a variety of techniques, but I find it very challenging to get vibrant colors -- greens in particular -- in the final result, as pulling the tint out of Protune footage tends to result in a very desaturated image. Help me find ways to get lush realistics greens and win my undying gratitute. Or at least have a little fun trying.
Here is the source (GoPro) image:
Here is a reference via my A7S:
Here is Vegas' Color Match Fx ... not doing very good matching the target:
Here is Vegas' White Balance Fx, selecting a small portion of the white part of a cloud (note that I am also adding some contrast with Color Curves and Saturation with the Color Corrector Secondary plugins):
Same Fx chain, but selecting a small portion of the concrete path instead of the cloud:
Here is Vegas' Color Curves fx, clicking Auto Levels. Downstream again are CC to add contrast and CC(2nd) for saturation:
Here is a professional LUT created by Leeming for GoPro. Fx path is White Balance Plugin (Clouds) + LUT:
Same, but with WB clicking on the path:
Here is my Auto Levels correction again, but this time I'm adding another CC (Secondary) Fx and targeting and tweaking the greens via masking:
And finally, here's a quick correction using Photoshop's Camera Raw filter. Kind of a bluish cast to this, but PS has no trouble creating vibrant blues & greens from the source:
Please share your own corrections and (if you're willing) how you got them. :)