Best appoach for first time color correction. What program?

not when you export your sequence. it's all srbg. you edit in srgb and export in srgb. and broadcast colors are as close to srbg as you can get. read that thread with matts reply about srgb.
 
hey guys. Thanks for all the feedback. I will take your advice and put in some time learning Color. There are some good tutorials out there, but if anyone has the mother of all tutorials please send it my way.

When I've played around with color, I feel like I've missed some important settings that other people are using. Still can't get my footage to look as great as others have. Also, are there any presents in Color? I know these aren't ideal, but its good when I just want to play around with what is possible.

Thanks for all the great feedback..
 
I'm not an expert, but I have to agree with Mr. Fanny. My understanding is that sRGB and AdobeRGB only apply to stills. Once the image is downsampled for video, the AVCHD compression turns it into a YCbCr 4:2:0 color space.
The information on the internet about this is hard to find, but my hunch is that the sRGB and AdobeRGB settings on the GH1 (or any DSLR that shoots video) are irrelevant when shooting video.
 
err, that's fine. however. that doesn't really matter once you export to a .tif sequence. when you bring the files into adobe camera raw you have 4 color spaces to choose from. adobe rgb, colormatchrgb, prophotorgb and srgb at 8 or 16bit. once the images are finished you export them uncompressed and back into premiere as image sequence. the color space stays the same.
 
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err, that's fine. however. that doesn't really matter once you export to a .tif sequence. when you bring the files into adobe camera raw you have 4 color spaces to choose from. adobe rgb, colormatchrgb, prophotorgb and srgb at 8 or 16bit. once the images are finished you export them uncompressed and back into premiere as image sequence. the color space stays the same.
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Wow, that workflow seems complicated and time consuming. I like the ease of use of the RAW interface, and its variety of tools. But how do you use this process if you're trying to balance the look between two shots, which is the main function of color correction for narrative projects? Is there a way to view both shots simultaneously? Also, what if you change your mind after applying your "look"? Do you have to start over and re-apply a new look to all the stills of your image sequence again? I could see this being valuable for single shots, but not as a solution for an entire movie.
 
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Wow, that workflow seems complicated and time consuming. I like the ease of use of the RAW interface, and its variety of tools. But how do you use this process if you're trying to balance the look between two shots, which is the main function of color correction for narrative projects? Is there a way to view both shots simultaneously? Also, what if you change your mind after applying your "look"? Do you have to start over and re-apply a new look to all the stills of your image sequence again? I could see this being valuable for single shots, but not as a solution for an entire movie.
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it's not really complicated, and sure it can be somewhat time consuming, but that sort of depends on your computer and how fast it is. i'm really comfortable correcting in adobe raw and i really don't mind spending the extra time to do this to get the best results possible. the control over your frame is probably the best. depending on the two shots you would either switch between the two frames or use the same preset from the previous shot onto your next one and adjust that. if you change your mind, simply hit reset. and save the preset in your controls. you should just try it out. also, in my tut, i output the sequence using quicktime. i don't do that anymore, cause that would change the color space. I didn't know at the time that adobe, you can simply import a sequence and adjust the timing.
 
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