Can you use Photoshop to color correct video?

I find i have more control in photoshop than in ae. but i hate the extra time it takes to do it photoshop. any thoughts.
 
Youcan do it in CS3 Extended, and render without image sequences. Just convert your video layer(s) to smart objects first.


Phil
 
You can. Just go Tools/Scripting/Image Sequence and export as jpg or tiff. Vegas has no Film file option that I am aware of...
 
You can actually send a .mov file to photoshop via image ready. Just open the .mov file in image ready and click on the feather and it will send the file over where each frame is a layer. You can then adjust each frame individually, or you can apply a filter to all the frames. Then click the feather again to send it back to image ready, then export-original document then select the file type. .flv is the default I think. POOF it's a .mov file again, or whatever you selected!
 
cs3 works with video

cs3 works with video

You can import video and even 3d .obj layers to CS3. It even has a time line. You don't have to do it frame by frame. I did it with a scene I had for the hell of it. Added a photoshop effect to make it look drawn them composited it with the original video at a low opacity to give it a little color.

Photoshop cs3 imports all kind of video. Here's the video I did in photoshop just messing around. It was a quicktime I imported not even an image sequence.


http://www.vimeo.com/1027502


www.gainesvilleripper.com
 
Wow. That's a cool effect. But how did you import a video without doing it frame by frame? Do you have a special version of photoshop? How do you access a timeline in PS?
 
I just tried it, and it's pretty cool. I never knew there was a timeline option. This is going to save me a lot of time. :2vrolijk_08:
But for some reason everything that I do is only applying to the first frame of the image, and not to the rest of the clip. What am I doing wrong?
 
Someone wrote that you can import video into photoshop, do all the work you want to it there, and then export from photoshop as video as well.

If've been trying to do that, but I can't get it to alter anything but the first frame. I am using an action, so I don't know if that is the problem. Has anyone had any look gettiing tweaeked video out of photoshop?


Can someone please describe the process? Theres a handy little tutorial out there, but is does not cover the use of actions nor does it cover exporting.


Any help?
 
ya you can, I just found this out yesterday. You can import video clips, colour correct etc, and export it video all in photoshop.

I'll try and find the link to the video.
 
so, the final render that you get from photoshop after you color correct is in a top quality? or you loose some? im doing some CC in PS and im not sure if im getting the best of it.
 
I done a short test for a interview, CC in photoshop.
Some issues was: total time procesing, pre-production CC files, organic texture, a image with minimal video/codec/optic artefacts, the posibile loss in MTF, subjective perceptivines, rendering time, posibilites for a given scene, selective CC, artificial DoF, 16bit vs 8bit CC in Color, HDR technique, film noise, dinamic range and sub-expozure, stressing procesing.

The main advantage for me it´s because y can dream to work like a photographer on a 16 bit platform on my home MAC. Ofcorse there are some important limitacion.
Here are some links: interview http://www.vimeo.com/2346325
frame grabs from a video source: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?p=1095409#post1095409
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=103271&highlight=gabriel+bordas

Workflow:
Start - select the static shots with no moving camera or zoom.
1. FCP - 1 frame export from every scene after final editing. All the frames must have all the technical details from the slate and DoP notes. This frames are used to search a look becoming ¨masters¨.
2. Organize - every scene must treated like celuloid sheets. Generate a directory structure for Master TIFF, for every scene a directory with their on sub-directory for actions, curves e.t.c.
i dond recomend to export all the frames of a movie to 1 directory. It becoming very hard to re-organize later and the rendering it very slow. Best to do 1 diretory for every scene no more then 3000 TIFF frames.
3. Start the Action fuction and do the 16 bit conversion
4. Up-rez to 2K and eliminate as much possible the video artefacts and dow-rez to original size or stay in 2K.
5. Use the best plugins to eliminate the noise and optical artefacts. Vizualize all the time the blue chanel. Very important, in this stage, the results are much beter if you work in 2K ore more. MTF isues are minor.
6. Work on a organic texture if you like, like film grain. Dont recomend that if your plan it a film tranfer or streaming.
7. Manage the latitude with the HDR fuction, curves, levels, shadow/hilight expozure e.t.c.
8. Start to select the vital elements of the frame to do the selective CC.
9. for the rest, work like in a photo lab
10. After the CC test that all the Action are ok an play them on separate file.

Aditional notes
The photoshop it best to work on critical shots, rotoscopie, matte maiting, hicontrast, textures and to prepare the master TIFF for a later CC Davinci and to elimnitate as much as posibile the video/codec/optic artefact or simple to work with the HDR function .....
In AE it best to do selective CC on moved scenes.
The redering time its lost on the noise reduction stage.


All the best
Gabriel Bordas
 
Looks great. Thanks for the links and info Gabriel. I like the CC'd conferance footage very much, though some of the blurring and effects on the other short look very impressive as well.
 
Doing most adjustments in Photoshop is actually relatively simple since the CS suite was released. If you open a clip in Photoshop, add an adjustment layer and you can make your adjustments there. Use the export command (instead of save/save as) and render out.
 
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