Proper color correction? Decent look?

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SinJinQLB

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Ok so me and my friend are working on this youtube series. You can see the first episode through this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jedI-vRShLY

I was hoping someone with an experienced eye could watch it and let me know if it looks decent at all, as far as picture quality. I'm using the DVX100a, and did a lot of color correcting. The beginning is suppose to take place during the morning, so I added a little blue for morning haze. As the episode progresses, I increased the contrast and the warm colors, to show the sun moving in the sky and setting.

Do you get that from the video? How does it look over all? I tried to output the best quality I could - I used Adobe Premiere and tried a lot of test renders and found MPEG2-DVD to be the best. I turned up the bit rate and put the quality to full, turned on multiplexing...

Does the whole image look too processed, i.e. too much color correcting and messing around? I also added a hint of luma correcting to bring out richer blacks. It doesn't look amazing, but I'm not sure if that's because I handled it wrong or if it's just youtube's limit in quality. Any critique on the image quality and how I can improve next time is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 
I think you overdid it on the light change. The morning looks good, but late day doesn't actually look quite like that. And our eyes adjust to make it seem even less changed. A couple scenes look slightly green to me, but I'll wait until someone else sees it since I'm pretty tired. It makes it harder for me to do fine color work. Mostly for criticism, though, I think you overdid it later on. I did notice good color in the morning sequence. Note also that I only skimmed through it with the sound off, looking specifically for the things you mentioned in this post.
 
Ok cool. Yeah I worked on it for a while, so after spending so much time with it I started to lose focus and didn't know what looked good or not anymore. Thanks for your input though. I'm thinking you have to be subtle with contrast changes maybe?

Anyone else?
 
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