Lightroom at the moment. I was under the impression that it could work with video, and have just discovered it does. The drawback however is that it is looking like I need to install the dastardly QuickTime.
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| Author: | belchingmatt [ Wed Apr 16, 2014 10:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Video colour grading |
I need to colour grade / white balance some UW video clips I shot on holiday. Does anyone have any recommendations of free or trial without limitation software for me to try? Ideally something that is very easy to learn as it is just for dabbling with at the moment. TIA |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Video colour grading |
Which software are you editing in? |
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| Author: | belchingmatt [ Fri Apr 18, 2014 4:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Video colour grading |
Lightroom at the moment. I was under the impression that it could work with video, and have just discovered it does. The drawback however is that it is looking like I need to install the dastardly QuickTime.
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| Author: | belchingmatt [ Fri Apr 18, 2014 6:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Video colour grading |
Now that I know what to do, comes the realisation that this 7yo laptop is woefully inadequate at anything that requires the slightest bit of electronic effort. |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Sat Apr 19, 2014 1:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Video colour grading |
Depends how much value you put on your time!  It's never occurred to me use LR in that way to be honest, but I'm interested so I'll have to have a play. Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDwodRpfytw - seems like you can take a single frame, make the adjustments to the colour you want, save it as a preset and apply it to the whole clip. We used to do colour correction 7 yrs ago - it's just faster these days. 
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| Author: | belchingmatt [ Tue Apr 22, 2014 6:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Video colour grading |
I found a similar video from someone called Erin describing much the same process. I had a play and it all looks like it should work ok with single frames. However, trying to apply it on the fly to one of my clips is when the laptop turned all French and started waving the little white flag. |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Video colour grading |
You’ll all hate me for this - but I’ll mention here that Final Cut Pro X has some rather nice tools for colour grading and colour correction - that includes adjusting levels to ensure you don’t clip your blacks and whites. Obviously - colour correct first (that is, make sure your levels and whites are nicely balanced), then colour grade (adjust colours to taste). The drawbacks are: 1 - You’ll need a Mac. You’ll also need to be aware that Apple decided that my 2006 MBP was no longer powerful enough to run FCPX, which is a bummer (so new Laptop is required for portable FCP larks), so software obsolescence for older machines is likely. 2 - You’ll need £200 - it’s an expensive bit of software, but nowhere near as expensive as FCP originally was (£900+). The FCPX price is around the same as you’d previously pay for Final Cut Express - which was a pretty decent bit of software for hobbyists. If you have access to a Mac and want to try it out, there’s a download here: http://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/ Anyway, some tutorials: http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2011/ ... -in-fcp-x/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqbmT4Lx4uM There’s loads about this, but since I discovered how to do all of this colour correction last year, I’ve found I can get a lot more out of the footage from my video camera, and even the GoPro seems to be massively improved. |
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