Picture Matching thoughts or ideas

[KimB]

I have a three camera shoot and need to match the output of each camera.

Two cameras shoot HD 1080i and one shoots HDV 1080i. For reasons that don't really need to be explained, as it has happened and there is nothing I can do about it save build a time machine, the HDV shot is soft and obviously of a lower quality in comparison to the other two shots.

So my question is does anybody have any thoughts about how I can best match these three shots.


HD Camera 1 HDV Camera 2 HD Camera 3

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I have already done a small amount of colour grading in Final Cut 7 and have had to resize the HDV footage by about 15%.

I am open to any thoughts, suggestions, experiments, etc about how I can work with this.

Your help is much appreciated and hope to hear from you all soon.

Kim

 

[tom_wise]

I have a three camera shoot and need to match the output of each camera.

Two cameras shoot HD 1080i and one shoots HDV 1080i. For reasons that don't really need to be explained, as it has happened and there is nothing I can do about it save build a time machine, the HDV shot is soft and obviously of a lower quality in comparison to the other two shots.

So my question is does anybody have any thoughts about how I can best match these three shots.

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HD Camera 1 HDV Camera 2 HD Camera 3

(Hyper links to better quality images)

I have already done a small amount of colour grading in Final Cut 7 and have had to resize the HDV footage by about 15%.

I am open to any thoughts, suggestions, experiments, etc about how I can work with this.

Your help is much appreciated and hope to hear from you all soon.

Kim

It looks as tho the HDV shots were missed focus? and of course, up sizing them 15% will just make that worse. I'd say go back down that 15% and do the best you can with what you have. The wide (HDV) shot will look fine in the mix I suspect.

 

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

I have a three camera shoot and need to match the output of each camera.

Two cameras shoot HD 1080i and one shoots HDV 1080i. For reasons that don't really need to be explained, as it has happened and there is nothing I can do about it save build a time machine, the HDV shot is soft and obviously of a lower quality in comparison to the other two shots.

So my question is does anybody have any thoughts about how I can best match these three shots.


HD Camera 1 HDV Camera 2 HD Camera 3

(Hyper links to better quality images)

I have already done a small amount of colour grading in Final Cut 7 and have had to resize the HDV footage by about 15%.

I am open to any thoughts, suggestions, experiments, etc about how I can work with this.

Your help is much appreciated and hope to hear from you all soon.

Kim

I don't know if the 15% is worth it. But one thing that sort of pops out is the difference in the brown jacket, and red chairs between the two camera types. I'd look into seeing if I could get a better color match there, which may take some doing.