Timothy Harry
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Apr 25, 2008, 6:22 AM
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Re: [MLiebergot] Quinceanera - April 19, 2008
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First off, if you didn't do any color correction on any of these clips, then I must say that you did a great job of white balancing earlier in the clip.
As for color correction and levels in FCP, use the 3-Way Color Corrector in your effects tab.
Make sure that you use your scopes to make sure that you are properly exposed.
Then, open 3-Way CC in FCP
When you open the 3-Way CC in FCP you will notice 3 wheels with adjustment bars under each of them, and another for saturation.
When viewing my instructions I will be explaining from Right to Left
1. Whites: The 1st wheel, use eyedropper to select something white to set white levels
2. Mids: The 2nd (middle) wheel, use eyedropper to select something 50% grey to set mid levels
3. Blacks: The 3rd wheel, use eyedropper to select something black to set black levels
4. Then by clicking slider below, watch your scopes and increase or decrease your black levels, should drop blacks to around 0
5. Next set your whites and watch to make sure you don't clip (hit shift z on your keyboard, which will bring up a green check if levels are good or yellow warning sign if your levels aren't legal).
6. Next adjust your mids to brighten the picture up more
7. Adjust saturation, increase or decrease to pop the image as you like.
Tweak accordingly as desired until you get teh image you want.
Hope this helped.
one other trick to keep from clipping the whites in an environment where you have to clip in order to get a detail out of the shot is to use the broadcast safe filter. I normally drop that on the entire sequence before export. It will clip anything above 110 IRE to 110IRE on the scope, making the footage closer to broadcast legal. you can also change the settings of the clip to make it clip at whatever you want, but normally 110 works just fine.
Also keep in mind that an inherent problem with the 3 way CC is that it kills out some of the clips saturation. It is a documented issue with the filter, but you can get around it in 2 ways. One way is to obviously boost the saturation, the other is to use it only when the color balance is off. I normally do not use the 3 way color corrector to correct levels. Instead, I use the normal color corrector that does not have that problem.
Tim Harry
Bandwagon Media
Odessa, TX
"Broad minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion" - Will Rogers
(This post was edited by Timothy Harry on Apr 25, 2008, 6:25 AM)
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