Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Editing: Primary Colour Correction

After balancing out the Brightness & Contrast of my sequence I have gone on to try and tastefully correct the colouration. Although the terms colour correction and colour grading are often used in an interchangeable way they technically stand for different definitions. For my production chrominance and luminance. Colour grading refers to altering the colour of the video in a way that enhances the overall presentation of the product. Any process referred to as colour correction is a primary process of balancing out the colouration and any colour casting that may have occurred. After controlling the brightness and contrast, as shown in the top screenshot I then started to use the fast colour corrector to perform the primary colour correction. Within the fast colour corrector there is an option displayed between, the output and layout sections, called split view. By using this option I am able to split the preview window in two either vertically or horizontally. On one half the raw (uncorrected footage) is shown and on the other side the corrected footage is shown. In this screenshot, below, I have included the preview window which shows the colour correction. In this screenshot I had enabled a horizontal split view, meaning the top half is colour corrected and the bottom not. Although it is barely visible on the right half of the frame there is a split.



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