color correcting help

[Burn2Earn pro.]

Hey everybody , I was shooting a film and the first few days I was using 800 watt red head lights. All 3 of the lights blew out on me and I was forced to use soft box flourescent lights... Now I'm in Post and I'm trying to color correct the film so It runs smoothly... any suggestions would help... thanks

 

[PDR]

Hey everybody , I was shooting a film and the first few days I was using 800 watt red head lights. All 3 of the lights blew out on me and I was forced to use soft box flourescent lights... Now I'm in Post and I'm trying to color correct the film so It runs smoothly... any suggestions would help... thanks

It might help to describe in more detail what the problem is , what you're trying to do exactly, or post a sample or screenshot to help explain

 

[Burn2Earn pro.]

I hope that works , I was trying to put them right on the forum but it would't let me.


I forgot to mention what I want to do, I am in post for this film and I'm color correcting so that it all relativly matches each scene.. If you notice the skin tone in the shot with the guy and girl is much more richer than the shot of the guys skin tone in the next scene because of the florecesent light.

its much more softer on Him. I would like to get it similar to the guy and girl shot... I've messed with the curves but it still isn't close.

 

[msorrels]

You should start with setting the white balance on the shot with fluorescent scenes, it's very, very green. It will at least remove the heavy green cast. To do this in After Effects using just the standard plugins, use the Color Finesse effect/plugin. It comes with AE. Here's the quick (and sadly not really well documented way to do this)

Apply Color Finesse (it's under Synthetic Aperture in the Effects list). Open it's full interface. On the bottom of the screen in the lower left corner is a list of things you can change (HSL/RGB/CMY/YCbCr/etc) check the Curves one. And click it. It will then show you 4 curves. Just below them in the left corner are three eyedroppers. One for Black, one for Gray and one for White. Click on the white eyedropper and find something in your scene that should be white. CF will then adjust the curves to white balance to that item. Turn off the effect check box and try again until you find the right "white source" to balance the shot.

You will still need to adjust the levels and saturation to better match, but you'll be in the ball-park. Here's the shot after using the lamp as a white source. It's still bad, but at least it's not green.

You might also want to look into getting some color correcting plugins or plan to spend a lot of time learning how to use Color Finesse (which is actually pretty powerful, but seems very hard to use).

 

[Burn2Earn pro.]

That is good color finesse... Thank you , I didn't try taking down the green. I hope the saturation comes out just as good. Thanks again.