Color Matching between cameras

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TeamJoeDawn

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OK.. this is giving me FITS! I am using premiere 1.5 and can't find a simple, quick way to color match two different cameras that I used to record a static, tripod event. Because it is so still, the difference in color leaps out at you when the camera changes (they have almost the same viewing angle). I want it to look much more seamless.

I tried my hand at hand-adjusting it.. I stink and don't have time to learn on THIS project (something I must work on for the future).

I tried doing "auto-color" and "auto-contrast" on all videos, thinking it would bring them down to a nice center.. but it shows that it will take over 28 hours to render three hours of video with those filters on.. I don't know why, I have a Pentium 3.2ghz, with 2gb of RAM and plenty of HD space.. I don't get it (although the still shots of adjusted video looks like a nice match).

Lastly, I tried the Color Finesse plugin, and I guess I either don't understand the concept, or can't get it to work..


Anyone help? Im trying to get this video project out the door this evening... this is painful!

J
 
Match the levels best you can. Use the scopes.

That will make color match (CC) a bit simpler.

If both cameras recorded the same event at the same time it would seem to me that you only have to do two CCs. One for each camera.

Is the three hours the total captured footage or the program duration?

Only grade the program.
 
It was the same event, from two different cameras.. they were adjacent each other, near same POV.. I ran one first (1hr), then overlapped by a few minutes with the other camera (for another hour), then back to the original one for the last half hour.. therefore, basically I have three clips, two similar in exposure (first and last) and middle one different.

About a 2.5hr program..

Thanks for the help.


J
 
Joe, you need to find a reference point between the videos, some common element each was shooting, and use that to match the cameras. This would be easier in After Effects, since it has an RGB value readout you can use to fine tune the values until they match.
 
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