Video color correction

[AevnsGrandpa]

I personally have Pinnacle Liquid Edition and it has a couple different color correctors, but what you did in Premiere was real nice.

It is amazing that those colors are really there just covered up by blue!

Jeff

 

[howard4113]

I like what Peter did with the video too! I've been doing some color correction using Ulead Videostudio 6. I think it has the best color controls of the "home studio" (aka CHEAP) editing software - but it still doesn't give what I consider satisfactory results. Looking at Peter's examples I'd like to try Premier. What's the cheapest source? I'm not rich! Also, would one of you Premier guru's consider correcting a tiny piece of video for me so I could see what to expect?

Thanks!

Mark

 

[diversteve]

I like what Peter did with the video too! I've been doing some color correction using Ulead Videostudio 6. I think it has the best color controls of the "home studio" (aka CHEAP) editing software - but it still doesn't give what I consider satisfactory results. Looking at Peter's examples I'd like to try Premier. What's the cheapest source? I'm not rich! Also, would one of you Premier guru's consider correcting a tiny piece of video for me so I could see what to expect?

Thanks!

Mark

Premiere Pro is around $700 anywhere. The cheapest I found doing a quick Froogle search was $675 but I've never heard of the seller. Amazon has it for $695.

There's also Premiere Elements which is the "home studio" version of Premiere, Amazon has it for $89. They also have a bundled deal of Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements for $89 after two mail-in rebates. If you buy Elements, be sure it's version 3.0 which just was released last month. I can't comment on the differences between Premiere and Premiere Elements as I've never seen Elements.

You can also get the Educational version of Premiere Pro for $209 at Academic Superstore if you can prove eligibility - enrolled K-12 or college student, student I.D. card in name of buyer, instructor etc....It's the same s/w just academically priced - technically you're not supposed to use it for profit purposes. The latest version of Premiere Pro is 1.5, some "Educational" suppliers are still selling 1.0.

 

[ChrisA]

Cheapest _good_ editor: "Cinelerra". It's free and suitable for production use
by professionals. I use it on a 2.6Ghz P4 with 1GB ram. It will run on a smaler box
but can also take advantage of a huge stack of hardware
Cinelerra has a plug-in system so if you can do some programming new features
are easy to add

http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/12/30/cinelerra.html

http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/
http://kino.schirmacher.de/

http://www.gimp.org/

I like what Peter did with the video too! I've been doing some color correction using Ulead Videostudio 6. I think it has the best color controls of the "home studio" (aka CHEAP) editing software - but it still doesn't give what I consider satisfactory results. Looking at Peter's examples I'd like to try Premier. What's the cheapest source? I'm not rich! Also, would one of you Premier guru's consider correcting a tiny piece of video for me so I could see what to expect?

Thanks!

Mark

 

[howard4113]

Thanks for the info guys! I tried to download elements - but the file was corrupt - TWICE! At ~450Mb for elements vs ~150Mb for premier pro (what's with THAT???) - I decided to try premire pro. It did exactly what I wanted.

The channel mixer does the job. I got good general results leaving GG and BB at 100 and using for the red channel R=80 G=60 B=10. Small tweaks to the red channel settings fine tune most scenes.

Does anyone know if elements has a channel mixer? If not, I'll try to download it again as that's the only feature I need. A little gamma and hue/saturation comes in handy too.

Thanks again for the suggestions! This is a great place to share info.

Mark

 

[howard4113]

GOOD NEWS! I downloaded trial versions of Premier Pro and Elements. Channel Mixer is a standard feature with Elements and works exactly the same. In fact most functionality is identical.

Mark

 

[meekal]

WOW! that fix that PETE did is awesome. there's a great description in a bit more detail at http://www.wetpixel.com/module-pagesetter-viewpub-tid-1-pid-35.phtml. i usually end up with the exact OPPOSITE problem. i use a RED filter and often times i end up in toooo shallow water and the red is overpowering. will try his technique to reverse engineer the reds out. The toughest part is trying to get all footage from start to end to be 'the same'