Blue Video

[DaFireMedic]

I should add that I am partially red-green color blind so I can't rely on a visual evaluation of any post-processing technique, which certainly affects my judgment on how useful post processing is.

60% of adult males are partially red/green colorblind, at least according to the head of the clinical department at the college of optometry where I had a test done. I too, am weak in the red/green spectrum, but I never noticed until I took a test. I seem to do OK with post production type stuff, although I like to get second opinions on fine differences in color.

So you have plenty of company, myself included......

If you can get your hands on a copy of combustion you can so some amazing things. It's a compositor and color corrector that works more on the professional level but is accessible to everyone. I took some video with my digital still camera that was all green. With the color correction tools in combustion the difference was remarkable.

I only spent about 5 minutes on it and have never used the program before and I didn't touch the exposure or deal with keyframing or anything. If you can figure out the interface it's an amazing tool.

Billy

I have Combustion (it came bundled with 3ds Max), but have never tried using it for color correction. I took a look at the interface and played around with it for a bit, but went back to using After Effects, if only because its what I am familiar with. Combustion is certainly a powerful program. Maybe I will pull it out again and compare the color correction tools with those in After Effects.

 

[Empty V]

I have Combustion (it came bundled with 3ds Max), but have never tried using it for color correction. I took a look at the interface and played around with it for a bit, but went back to using After Effects, if only because its what I am familiar with. Combustion is certainly a powerful program. Maybe I will pull it out again and compare the color correction tools with those in After Effects.

I've been an AE user for about 7 years now and recently started training on Apple's Shake. So far Shake seems to be the overall best at CC. I own FCP Studio 2 and haven't really had a chance to get inside Color but as soon as I've mastered Shake, Color is the next triumph.

Billy