Reducing Red Lighting

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Cleavage2

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Hey guys,

I recently shot a bands performance, and unfortunately the lighting setup contained almost ALL red lighting, and consequently most of the footage is flooded in red and looks quite average.

Is there anyway in Premiere Pro to reduce the red? I know I won't be able to do a lot to it, but is there any way I can at least improve it? I quickly cut together the first track just to see how the footage looks, please don't take notice of the cut because it was thrown together in 5 minutes - just take notice of the red, and hopefully suggest ways in which I may improve it.

http://www.truerideproductions.com/wiki/scar_rough1.mov

I'll really appreciate any help you guys can give me.

Cheers!

Dave.
 
Dave,

Nice clip, I really like it. Your technique is very good!

Hey, if you reduce the red, what will be left? :)

It looks good to me. If you are worried about blocky reds, well, they won't look so blocky when you burn to DVD and watch on a TV. If you are really concerned, you need to do some Chroma Smoothing. Do you have AE? Try the DV Rebel's Chroma Smoothing technique on your final video before you go to DVD.

Josh
 
You can try to color balance the red a little better by blending RGB.

Go to effects, image control, color balance RGB and adjust according to your taste. It may assist a liitlle further if you re-white balance the footage but I don't think that will be necessary.

Thats how I would do it.

Steve
 
I had the same problem with a two day shoot that I did. The first day the red was there, and after previewing it the second night, i had them taken down. But in post I reduced the saturation in on a full sequence rendered it out. then with that sequence I boosted the mids and highs a little and ran it through cinemotion grain reducer.
 
that's great guys, thank you very much for the feedback. joshua, i'm glad you like the clip! i'll try out all of these methods and see how i go.
 
Forgot to mention that at default settings, reds tend to pop out anyway on the DVX, especially if you use a CINE or ENHANCED color MATRIX. Reducing CHROMA LEVEL in your scene settings a few notches gets your colors back to reality, if that's what you're looking for.
 
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