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Park Edwards

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how would you like to color correct your movies using adobe camera raw? i've found a way that's pretty simple. i'm on my way to work, but i'll post how to later. video and tutorial here.

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I don't get it. I was able to duplicate that CC almost exactly with a single instance of Levels. What's the point of this convoluted workflow?
 
Great tutorial Car3o, thanks man. The lines continue to blur between still and motion tools.
 
mkeep said:
I don't get it. I was able to duplicate that CC almost exactly with a single instance of Levels. What's the point of this convoluted workflow?
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it's not for everyone. i work in publishing and always use raw to color correct photo's and find adobe camera raw a much more useful tool to use when adjusting. if you can do the same thing in levels, great.
 
I think for colour correcting work, it's going to be abit too cumbersome as you'd need to bring it back into the editing system again to check the scopes.

As far as I'm aware, Adobe Raw only has the Histogram, and not the Vectorscope or Waveform monitor?

Those Adobe Raw sliders are alot more user friendly and creative than the usual 3 way colour and secondary correcting tools though...
 
BandanaDan said:
I think for colour correcting work, it's going to be abit too cumbersome as you'd need to bring it back into the editing system again to check the scopes.

As far as I'm aware, Adobe Raw only has the Histogram, and not the Vectorscope or Waveform monitor?

Those Adobe Raw sliders are alot more user friendly and creative than the usual 3 way colour and secondary correcting tools though...
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to be honest, i've never used either one. photoshop doesn't have either for correcting photo's but it doesn't stop professionals from correcting their photo's in either program. aren't wavform monitors just for checking signals? again, i'm not to familiar with it...what are the benefits vs a histogram?

which editing system are you using? does magic bullets or premiere/ae have it? like i said in the tut and on here, it's not for everyone.

but it does show you clipping which is very helpful.
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histograms can replace scopes no problem, you can always use a filter to make sure signals are legal if your project is for broadcast, i'm more concerned about viewing the results on a video monitor. grading video on a computer monitor isn't a very good idea even if it's calibrated.
 
and if you do it, use srgb rather than adobe rgb like in the example above, a much closer match (or use proper color management when you convert back i guess).
 
mattsand said:
and if you do it, use srgb rather than adobe rgb like in the example above, a much closer match (or use proper color management when you convert back i guess).
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hey matt. that grab was actually a still picture. but why srgb? from all the seminars i've been to, and this was for correcting stills not video, they always referred to srgb was "shi*ty rgb" and that adobe rgb was the better color profile to work with. is video closer to srgb?
 
gotcha thanks. nah, i was just pointing out, that the grab of the kitty showing the histogram was an actual still picture shot with adobe rgb color profile. it wasn't a still from video. and yes, you're right. i've heard many things about a broadcast monitor vs a computer monitor.
 
oh, but it says adobe rgb in the tutorial too, and if that's not a still from video you must have shot an extremely fast image sequence. :-)
 
haha, yeah i noticed that after i posted. i guess when you shoot video the color profile tags along with it too. i'm not sure when i output the sequence it goes to adobe rgb or if it's in camera. i'll find out though.
 
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