\\\\\ Zebras In Post? \\\\\

Musicvid wrote on 7/4/2019, 2:11 AM

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Yes, it's a stretch..I thought it might help some shooters who are uploading camera footage straight to Youtube [cough]..

Proof-of-concept only at this point, but if anyone can use it, the forthcoming Photoshop Action (actually a macro), once fully working, will be gratis..

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Marco. wrote on 7/4/2019, 3:01 AM

I use a doubled CC Secondary for kind of a Vegas zebra FX. Actually it's more a "color" than a "zebra" but it works. See -> here.

Edit:
The project file download link in the other topic doesn't work no more. This screenshot shows how it's done with the Color Corrector Secondary. I use red to signal the clipped highlights and blue to signal the clipped lowlights.

EricLNZ wrote on 7/4/2019, 3:12 AM

Looks like the TSS Earnslaw at the end of the shot. Surely not. Where did the clip come from?

Musicvid wrote on 7/4/2019, 3:16 AM

Used by permission of Gordon Laing, who has more camera tests on Vimeo than almost anyone.

Musicvid wrote on 7/4/2019, 3:28 AM

I use a doubled CC Secondary for kind of a Vegas zebra FX. Actually it's more a "color" than a "zebra" but it works. See -> here.

Yes, my earliest high-low clipping test actually started that thread, and I played with Secondary CC at that time too. The idea of zebras woke me up at 3 am today.

Truth be known, I'm addicted to writing Macros and Perl Regular Expressions, which are not very marketable these days.

EricLNZ wrote on 7/4/2019, 3:53 AM

Used by permission of Gordon Laing, who has more camera tests on Vimeo than almost anyone.

He obviously travels far as I was surprised to see a scene from my far flung corner of the planet.

karma17 wrote on 7/6/2019, 2:19 AM

This is cool. I use an app called Cine Meter II that's pretty helpful too for evaluating certain scenes.

https://www.adamwilt.com/cinemeterii/
 

 

Musicvid wrote on 7/6/2019, 12:48 PM

My attempt to make it react to chroma outliers (RGBCMY) is making it really sluggish.

I'll publish a simple Luminance Clipping action, a la camcorder zebras, maybe tomorrow.

Musicvid wrote on 7/6/2019, 10:59 PM

This is cool. I use an app called Cine Meter II that's pretty helpful too for evaluating certain scenes.

https://www.adamwilt.com/cinemeterii/
 

 

Too bad it's for iThingies. A Droid version would be so cool.

Musicvid wrote on 7/8/2019, 1:27 AM

@Marco. @EricLNZ  @karma17

Here's my result for now.

Comments invited.

It's just show-and-tell because it uses a 3rd party program.

Musicvid wrote on 7/13/2019, 8:09 PM

Another one:

Musicvid wrote on 9/6/2019, 6:10 PM

So finally, after 5-1/2 years of piddling around, I achieved my original vision -- a clipping demo with each clipped primary replaced with its complement, with Y' and K replaced with Blue and Red, respectively.

The trick was adapting to linear-sequential control only over 3 interdependent layers -- still trying to grok it but this works perfiectly. Whew.

The legend:

The result (source credit: Jacob and Katie Schwartz):

This is wild! Give it a minute of your time.