Questions tagged [color-correction]
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Premiere Pro: How to add multiple masks for Lumetri Color effect?
I'm expected to do color correction to multiple separate parts of the same clip at the same time, which is why I have assumed using multiple masks for Lumetri Color effect and changing the effect for ...
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Incorrect reels colors on mobile instagram
After uploading the reels to the profile after what time (about 1 hour) the colours on the video become not very saturated. For example, the orange colour becomes almost yellow - it looks terrible. ...
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How to fix a presumably HDR video file that displays super washed out in all video players?
How do I fix a presumably HDR video file that displays super washed out in the Linux video player totem, the cross-platform player VLC, and also in Handbrake's video preview? All colors are extremely ...
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Equalize color impression of many clips of a video?
I'm quite a beginner in Video editing, however - let's say I am editing a video with many clips in the timeline - from different cameras / sources.
Whats the term called for correcting the colors of ...
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How to adjust video histogram using ffmpeg?
I have a dark video and'd like to adjust its histogram. In a graphical editor I've found the values of the color levels that enhance video contrast.
How to set this level values in ffmpeg?
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How does color management work, fundamentally?
I have watched hours of videos on the subject, but I just can't understand it without a slightly deeper explanation. If it helps you to explain, my production software of choice is DaVinci Resolve.
I ...
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How do you achieve this soft/glowish low contrast black and white look?
Watched La Haine 4k version the other day and was captivated by how BFI gave the film a much low contrast soft look in comparison to criterion hard contrast look. I know lightning plays a vital role ...
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After effects: How can I track motion AFTER applying saturation?
Disclaimer, I'm relatively new to After effects:
Here is the problem, I need to track this lens flare:
Its very hard to do, however my thought was to apply some color correction in order to make it ...
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Recovering from an Automatic White Balanced mishap
I’m editing some video (and audio) I captured at an outdoor wedding a couple of weeks ago. I shot it with a consumer-grade Canon camera, but I had Automatic White Balance turned on. I did not shoot a ...
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Confusion about Floating Point in Color Space Transforms
To explain my confusion I'm going to use an example with a hypothetical sensor which clips at a max 1000% scene linear reflectance and crushes blacks at 0% light (I know there is no such thing as 0% ...
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After Effects: gradient overlay on multiple shape layers
I have a basic animation in After Effects which I want to export in a white version, a black version, and a colored version with a gradient. A frame of the animation is shown here:
I can link all the ...
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Change color to look as how a color blind person sees
I use DaVince Resolve and I want to color modify a video in order to show how a person with protanopia sees (protanopia is a form of color blindness). For that purpose I need to change these colors:
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angle of skin tone line on vectorscope
Some vectorscopes have a skin tone line to guide the correct color of human skins. However other vectorscope such as that built in FFmpeg does not have the skin tone line.
Is there a standard of the ...
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Premiere export colors
I know I am not the first, but I also have terrible problems with making the export with (latest) Premier Pro in an iMac. I looked through a lot of forums and I cannot find a solution anywhere…
As you ...
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Manual white-balance for non-neutral lighting
When you put an 18% gray card under, for example, an incandescent light, it's not supposed to look neutral gray. It's supposed to look orangish-gray, like your eyes see it (because it's reflecting ...
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X-Rite Video Color Matching gives Strange Results
I’m attempting to grade some footage from a C100, with the aid of X-Rite’s Video color match card, in DaVinci Resolve. Below is a screen grab of the ungraded footage.
And here is what I get when ...
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White balance vs color correction
I understand that it is a newbie question and if googled there are tons of articles regarding this, yet I am a bit confused with the answers given.
So, in every video post production there is almost ...
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Even out fluctuating exposure on old video
I'm trying to restore this old Charlie Chaplin snippet:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/AyNU3.jpg
I have trouble with the exposure of the clip, it fluctuates from brighter to darker. I want the exposure ...
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X-Rite i1Display Pro - Gives my MacBook Pro a greenish tint - What am I doing wrong?
I ordered an X-Rite i1Display Pro and was excited to see the corrections of colours of my old MacBook Pro (mid-2014). Well... I got somehow disappointed and now I cannot really trust i1Display Pro, ...
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ffmpeg vf scale shifts colors to washed out
Im trying to scale video down. No matter what I do the colors are always washed up as a result.
original:
After scaling:
Code I run for it
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vf scale=1028:-1 output.mkv
log: log
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Color correct to compensate for low blue
Everytime I create a video,it looks good in a normal screen but considering half of the people have the low blue light effect enabled, I would like to balance somehow the colors of my videos to ...
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How can I create a LUT on Linux with free and open source software?
I use Linux for everything media production. I shoot RAW and process images with Darktable.
Now that I've started making videos too (4K ProRes), I need to apply a LUT to them in post. This requires ...
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Correct gamma for SMPTE ST-2084 EOTF
I recently purchased an Apple Pro XDR display that has an HDR reference mode specified as follows:
HDR Video (P3-ST 2084)
Use this mode for 4K or ultra high-definition
video production workflows up ...
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Scale Video, Without 'ffmpeg Scaler' converting colorspace from RGBA to YUV
I have a video in RGBA space contained in MPNG codec. Which is in 4K. I need to Convert that into a 1080p File... SO i Used this -
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vcodec libx265 -vf scale=1920:1080 -sws_flags ...
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Apply the parameters of automatic color balance to another clip
I took several shots with a camera without the ability to white balance the shot. In one take, Final Cut Pro's automatic color balance works very well. I would like to apply those same settings to the ...
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Color profiles in videos
Does the AV-Kit of macOS use the color profiles that may be in the metadata of video files of some formats such as MP4? I am the manual author for GraphicConverter from lemkesoft and need to explain ...
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Color loss and grayish after downscaling using ffmpeg
Forgive me for I'm new to here, but I've been searching for solutions all the day, yet still puzzled by this problem. I try to downscale a 3840*2160 video to 1080p, and here's what I first did:
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How can I correct shadow/highlight with free software?
I have this short video and I'm trying to decrease the highlights on it since there are some overexposed areas in it.
I know some Adobe products have this shadow/highlight feature (I know it from ...
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Why a color grading suite needs high CRI lamps?
I'm building a color correction suite. Among the requirements, I read that it needs to be lit using 6500K lamps with CRI 90 or higher. Which are pretty hard to find in my location.
I totally ...
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Davinci Resolve 15 - color correction of whole tracks
I have a video project which I have cut and edited and now I want to adjust color (temperature) of one track that contains clips from one camera (2nd track contains clips from 2nd camera), I know it ...
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Where is video color vector scope in Apple Motion?
Color vector scope views are very useful for grading color more objectively. I can find it easily in FCPX 10.4.6, but where can I find it in Motion? (currently using 5.4.3)
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Lighting in footage oscillates between warm tones and greenish tones
This is my first time posting on this forum.
I do a lot of flatlay filming, timelapses, and my videos tend to have lots of cuts. I've noticed that my film gradually shifts between purple tones to ...
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Color-correcting super 8 video from 1975
I've got some super 8 video from 1975 that I had digitized, and the color is pretty wonky (here's a screen capture, we're actually skiing down a snow-covered road)
I assume it's the film itself and ...
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How do I remove video scan lines in DaVinci Resolve (or Fusion?)
I have little-to-no prior video editing experience, but am trying to edit together a video from when a friend and I flew in a full-motion flight simulator for a website.
I shot the video with my DSLR, ...
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Correct export in Premiere to Vimeo & YouTube in FULL RANGE 0-255
I'm working in Adobe Premiere on some sequences (Full HD, Progressive, 8bit).
In these sequences I added also some matte black backgrounds and after effects comps with black background and other ...
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Source ProRes 422 Proxy / Edit / Export to ProRes 422 proxy?
Wondering what exporting best practice is when working on source clips that are captured ProRes 422 Proxy.
I've c-corrected/graded these clips in DaVinci.
When it's time to 'Add to Render Queue', do ...
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Loss of Colour Detail After Premiere Pro Render
I've been struggling with this issue for a while now as I record and upload video game footage onto YouTube. I record using OBS Studio then usually edit/render the video in Premiere Pro before ...
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How to combine ffmpeg vf commands for resizing and color correction?
I'm currently using the following batch script to run an ffmpeg command:
@echo off
title Convert videos to Mp4 h.264 with FFMPEG.
echo This script will find all video files of a given extension then ...
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Reapply video color autocorrection
Video camera has a brightness correction algorithm and it was used incorrectly.
So I want to apply similar algorithm to the video. The video is static (camera stays in place and doesn't move) but ...
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White balance auto-adjusted half way through recording
Unbeknownst to me at the time, the camera I was using to record a talking head (so fixed environment and lighting) seems to have drastically altered its colour temperature part-way through recording. ...
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Why use Lumetri scopes?
I've never fully understood what histograms in LR/PS and Lumetri scopes in PP are telling me so perhaps this is why I don't understand the need for them but why can't I just look at the image and see ...
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Leaving white balance for post-processing. Is it a bad idea?
I am new to video. I have a HandyCam (CX405). I don't like trusting in the auto-white balance because it is variable and unpredictable, but changing manually between indoor/outdoor or doing re-...
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Color Correction filter to dull/desaturate Video
Novice w/ After Effects, but here it goes...I am looking to emulate the style/technique from this website background video https://y.co/
Is there a color correction effect to create this look? Or is ...
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Color grading basics
I am fairly experienced with video editing, but I know embarrassingly little about color grading. Can anyone recommend any resources that can help me get started?
(I typically use Premiere Pro)
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How to emphasize a faint white line among a yellow background?
I'm a total beginner at video editing and I filmed a video of a particle detector that I made. The particle made a very faint white line in the yellow background. I would like to post the screenshot, ...
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The videos I uploaded to a Facebook canvas are discolored. Any thoughts on why?
I built a Facebook canvas advertisementwith a mixture of image, video, and carousel elements. When you first load the canvas element, the video elements match the other imagery used in the ad well. ...
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ffmpeg Color Correction: Gamma, Brightness and Saturation
How is ffmpeg used with a video filter circa 2017 to adjust gamma/contrast, brightness and saturation?
Stack Exchange resources that are a few years old point to the filter mp=eq2=, but it seems to ...
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Unhappy with wedding videography production - want expert opinions to provide an independant view [duplicate]
I recently got married and i'm very unhappy with the finally product by the videography firm who basically feel the case is closed.
I am looking to take these to court but want some additional ...
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What are Grey Balls used for?
I know that a Grey Card is used for the white balance of the camera, but whate are the Grey Balls used for?
On big Productions, there is usually a guy (what is his job?) that holds up a grey ball and ...
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Color correction/grading then editing in Premiere
I'm trying to incorporate color correction/grading into my Adobe Premiere CC workflow. I have an x-rite color checker, and have had some success calibrating in Davinci Resolve Lite, but I don't want ...
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