Insano colour correction...

[Adam J McKay]

So over the last couple of years I have pretty much started using lightroom exclusively for all my post work in photos. I think I have opened photoshop 3 times in the last year...so this got me thinking. Damn what if I could colour correct my video in lightroom? Then I figured out I could by exporting a clip as still, bringing it in and apply the correction to all the frames and re exporting it as a video. So this is what I have done with the clip below. The process is time consuming and PC heavy and since I am using a POS HP consumer laptop, everytime I export I am in fear of my CPU melting.

This clip has a lot wrong with it but I know how to make it better, round 2 is going to be good.

http://vimeo.com/8094682

Does anybody else think that native video colour correction in lightroom would be amazing?

 

[jonE5]

wow, it actually looks pretty cool.

What settings did you change to what? Would this be possible just playing with the color settings in say final cut or vegas etc...?

I like the look, id love to be able to do that to some of my footage, as the look is a lot like the kinda feel i wanted for a short that i just finished shooting.

 

[mediamilitia]

Yep...I did this same thing using the Camera Raw editor out of adobe bridge on a commercial spot I did a couple years ago. I was looking to experiment and at the time it worked really nice. It just took a while to export each shot into image sequences and keep it all organized. I forgot how cool it was to that. Thanks for reminding me!