Colour Grading Examples:

CHAD1 said:
I know what you're talking about. It's in everybody's footage. Some see it, some don't. Go check in the FOREVER music video, it's there as well. The HVX produces this and I doubt there's any way to avoid this.

It's all in my DVCproHD files.

I watched the FOREVER video and didnt really see the compression. Will adding more light avoid this?
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I see it in the darks there, but I guess you'd have to be looking for it. The contrast in the video draws your attention to the well-lit areas, so it's not so much of a pain.

And yes, blasting a scene with light will suck up a lot of noise.
 
Kholi said:
I see it in the darks there, but I guess you'd have to be looking for it. The contrast in the video draws your attention to the well-lit areas, so it's not so much of a pain.
And yes, blasting a scene with light will suck up a lot of noise.
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Yeah, I believe the block artifacts on the head of this shot are due to the compression. But, as you see with the "Heaven" grading, there is a ton of noise that gets accentuated. I think the HVX naturally produces this in low light areas, so color correcting and adding gain will bring out what's already there.

For my FOREVER music video, (compressed H.264, unlike this video in Sor 3) I did my fair share of color correction... but I think what may have helped in my cause was crushing the master pedastal significantly. I think by doing that, it dramatically cuts the camera trying to see what's not there and hence cutting out some noise too. Just a guess really though :beer:
 
Gruzman said:
Yeah, I believe the block artifacts on the head of this shot are due to the compression. But, as you see with the "Heaven" grading, there is a ton of noise that gets accentuated. I think the HVX naturally produces this in low light areas, so color correcting and adding gain will bring out what's already there.

For my FOREVER music video, (compressed H.264, unlike this video in Sor 3) I did my fair share of color correction... but I think what may have helped in my cause was crushing the master pedastal significantly. I think by doing that, it dramatically cuts the camera trying to see what's not there and hence cutting out some noise too. Just a guess really though :beer:
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Oh, dude, it's very clean. It' sjust something he asked about so I was giving him a reference. It's just something that's hard to avoid with the camera. Lowlight areas are going to produce this. I also believe that your do-it-in-camera approach was great, even if you CC'd more, afterward.

And yes, when the image is that light there will definitely be noise. HEAVEN is a great example of how CCing brings it out. However, it still looks great.

I can't wait to try my hand at After Effects CCing!
 
meh, u get the same effect using film. noise isnt bad. as long as u dont have it in your properly exposed areas.
 
Added a few more examples:

Right click and 'save target as'/ 'download linked file'-

[url[http://homepage.mac.com/rhydon/.Movies/SymphonyColorGrading-SorensonSMALL.mov[/url]
 
Wow wtf Rhydon. You've got skillz. I love hte new segment.

What were your HVX settings for that? As it doesn't look like you had anything more than available light. What time of day? Sunny? overcast?

NICE!!! Thanks for (re)sharing!
 
Great colors dude. Very talented!
After you do your thing in AFX, do you export the whole project as a Quicktime back to FCP? Or FCP just reads back the AFX project? If it reads back, how can it read the pluggins you may have added in AFX?
Clueless here..
I may be investing in the Automatic Duck, but doesn't say anywhere if it reads both ways and what it does with pluggings from AFX...
 
Do you really CC everything in AE?
I mean, for a trailer its OK tranfering the files, but for longform work?
Or does the Duck work like "Sent to", no rerendering, trancoding aso...?

Great images!
 
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