Color saturation

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zdakota

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First of all, I don't post very often, nor do I have time to wade through dozens of pages of posts to potentially find an answer--so please do not rip me a new one if this has been discussed prior.

Anyway, I am wondering what is the best method to get the saturated colors in post-production (without using Magic Bullet). If I use adjust the saturation levels manually, the colors begin to seperate and pixelate.

How do these car commercials get that look without degrading the image? Is it something done in the color curves or levels? What is the best way to acheive this kind of coloring? Thanks in advance for the input.
 
well you could try a chroma blur after your saturation adjustment. my favorite way, however, is to use secondary cc to bring out selective colors in the picture. it pops w/o being overpowering.
 
BennisHahn---

Thanks for the input.

Is there another way to do it by adjust the curves or levels? All I ever seem to accomplish that was is either brightening or darkening the image.
 
You can create a duplicate track and desaturate the colors you don't want to exagerate and then composite the two tracks.
 
zdakota said:
How do these car commercials get that look without degrading the image?
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if you pay 800$ an hour for a CC session at a real post production facility, you too will have clean bright rich colors. we are forced to make a reasonable faximile with the tools at hand.

The DAvinci 2k CC machine is UNBELIEVEABLE. it does thigns that literally took my breath away.
 
Gopher_Greene said:
You can create a duplicate track and desaturate the colors you don't want to exagerate and then composite the two tracks.
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Can you give detailed instructions on how to do this? Where is the Saturate located?
If you could give a basic step-by-step that would be sweet.
 
In the format...

In the format...

Well you are trying to compare film to miniDV, thats where your first mistake is made. Dont try to kid yourself by thinking you are going to get the color richness and definition and latitude you see in commercials. Not gonna happen if your shooting on a dvx.

Telecine, as Timur said, does miracles, or if you get a good digital intermediate scan, you can tweak wonders IN post. However I can't say I have ever paid more than 350$ an hour for telecine (for HD). But I do get student rates.

With that said, reds are typically your worst enemy, and saturate enough to get pop, bring your blacks down to a respectable level, and you should be fine.
 
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