How important is colour correction in editing?

[MACMMP]

When your editing is colour correction really that important. Hi guys I'm editing a new video of mine and my friend says i should colour correct it when I'm finished. How important is colour correcting? will it matter if i dont bother with it?

 

[Cassius]

Very and yes.

 

[Gary Huff]

Depends on whether you want your video to look "so-so" or "wow!" Ironically, the more I try to get as close to the final look I want in-camera (and proper video cameras are much better able to achieve this than DSLRs), the more I find that, at the very least, I still have to tweak it occasionally to get all the way there.

 

[tildenm]

Sometimes it is important, it depends on the goal. To have a really finished look, it is pretty important. But I also have seen to many short films where the person knew very little about color correcting and made things worse.

 

[arniepix]

CC is as important as your sound mix and your graphics package.

 

[krotoflik]

Just as an example of what color correcting or in my case its more color adjusting, can do to your shots, here is a couple before and after screens from my Remorse video. I used Vegas Pro 10 for this.

Before


After


With a little practice you can make any bland shot look great.

 

[bwwd]

I prefere the first one tho

 

[Pookie]

CC is a very important part of editing any project, and not optional.

 

[bhatnagar.ashish001]

Yes I like the suggestion of all the members . Thanks for sharing it.

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