Too Saturated, please help!

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max123

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Hi Everyone. I did something bad: I put the chroma at +2 on my hvx200, using the cine-like D setting.
Result: The red background in the picture is overly saturated. Could someone tell me how to salvage the footage? I would like to de-saturate the red, without washing out the skin tones too much.

any option other than keying?

Thanks.
 

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What are you editing on? Might be several solutions available to you. On Vegas, I'd do a color curves correction, and just bring down the top of the red a bit. Should avoid most of the mid-tone skin, and knock some of that background down.

BTW, out of curiosity, what is that registering on the vectorscope?
 
Skin tone clump il a little saturated, but the clump pointing towards red is Wayyyy above the maximum line. I have to put saturation at 65 (100 means untouched) to have it under the safe line.

I use premiere pro.
 
On FCP you can do a 'pleasentville' effect. Color Corrector 3-way to matte out the red BG and desaturate it. If skin tones are effected too much by the desaturation, you may have to garbage matte the person.


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Skin tone = red. Red background = red.
De-saturating one without affecting the other would be unnatural.
 
i would try keylight out, key the red and use clip roll to isolate, then under that layer desautrate the red to the ideal level
 
Could you do a mask of the young lady? That would allow you to work the colors of the background separately from the subject. Time and labor intensive, but it may do the trick.

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dvxuser apparently limits file sizes pretty strictly. I tried to attach something earlier tonight, and found that max width on attachments was about 620 pixels. Unless it's a BMP where you can do 1080 wide, but the file has to be like 19k or less. :(
 
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