Questions tagged [color]
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Why are there so many color spaces available?
Whatever you are exporting, photo or video, you can choose between an enormous amount of color spaces. sRGB, Adobe RGB 98, Apple RGB, and many more. But why there so many different color spaces? Do ...
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Downsampling 4K footage for an increase in chroma sub-sampling
We have a Lumix GH-4 camera, which can shoot in 4K with 4:2:2 color space.
I'd like to be able to convert the footage to 1080p 4:4:4 color space.
I've read that there some ways of doing this:
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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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What is the colour range of most videos?
Colour range (Limited, Expanded) is something I've only thought of recently, and I'm worried I may have introduced colour banding into some of my videos.
When doing a standard MP4 export from ffmpeg, ...
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ffmpeg: white padding is light grey but not white
I want to generate 16:9 thumbnails from videos with white padding but the resulting picture has grey padding instead of white. This is the command line (input here is a jpg but the effect is the same ...
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Colors look different after export
Colors look great in FCPX.
After I export (Share > Master file > H.264 Quicktime) they look a bit dull: desaturated, less vibrant. Also sort of like the wrong gamma curve - shadows are darker.
I ...
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Relationship between bit depth and dynamic range?
Is there a direct relationship between higher video bit depth (10-bit vs 8-bit, for example) and higher dynamic range, i.e. HDR?
I'm somewhat confused regarding this particular aspect of bit depth. I ...
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why movie video is different from other videos (sports, news, or other)
I'm not a video producer or anything but I always noticed the different
of the image from a movie vs a regular video.
I'm curious, re they shot on different camera types or it's just post-production ...
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ffmpeg bgr vs rgb and other similiar pixel formats
I was wondering about the difference between rgb and bgr pixel formats available in many codecs.
It reminds me in some way the Big Endian and Little Endian flavours of computer processors.
While I ...
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Color calibration with a color chart
Even if I set up a custom white balance in my software (with the traditional way to do it, using a grey card or white balance card, etc.), sometimes the colors are not exactly like I would like.
I ...
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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 generate a color-correct h264/MP4 from a DPX sequence using ffmpeg?
We are converting a sequence of DPX files into an MP4. When the artist uses Adobe Media Encoder CC to generate the video, the colors match the original DPX. When we use ffmpeg, the video has a reddish ...
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How to manage colour in After Effects to get precisely a desired colour in h264 output
I am working on a video for the web only.
It is going to be on a webpage (never on broadcast), delivered as an h264 file.
The web page background is hex code FFF1E5 (RGB 255, 241, 229).
My background ...
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Software used for Film Colourization
Recently watched this video showing colour restoration of a Black & White film. Which software did they use for this purpose? Any guess?
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How to color grade gold
Whenever I take videos in churches/ temples with little light and a lot of gold, the gold looks kind of greenish brown on the final video.
As gold is not a colour in RGB, I have difficulties to find ...
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How do I get a totally consistent white tabletop background?
I'm working on a project that involves filming playing cards, and then cropping/joining different parts of the video. For a seamless result, the background of the video needs to always remain the ...
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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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How to read 10-bit RGB values from HDR video?
I had a HDR video and the format is ProRes. The colour bit depth of ProRes is 10-bit. I would like to extract the 10-bit RGB values from the HDR video.
As per this link, I have first converted the 10-...
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Graphics card and video codecs: are colors stored in a linear scale?
Is this saying correct ?
The graphics card and most video codecs store colors in a linear scale.
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How to reproduce this rainbow color feedback effect in After Effects?
I'm trying to reproduce this "color feedback" effect that was popular in the 80's (thanks to the Scanimate) :
This one is from the song "Earth, Wind and Fire - Let's groove"
Basically it work like ...
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Applying different color keys to one layer in AE
In After Effects, I have an image layer that consists a few colors. Underneath I have several other layers (textures). I want to replace each color of the image
above with one of the textures below.
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YUV to RGB/sRGB color space conversion using ffmpeg
How to convert an mp4 file with YUV color space to RGB or sRGB color space using ffmpeg? I am trying to upload my video to YouTube and I read somewhere that RGB video looks better than YUV one.
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How to post-process an image to turn trees blue and a face yellow?
I'm wondering what effect makes the woods so blue and the skin so yellow.
I think it's quite a common and trendy effect.
If somebody knows what is there changed, it would be nice to tell me :)
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Why is YouTube and VLC making a slight but noticeable mess of my video background?
Retitling and reediting, after a few tips from Mulvya.
I've got a div on my blog, with background color set to #83d3c9.
Yesterday I tried creating a video on AE where the background was set to ...
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Dark Video/Gama Shift from Davinci Resolve to YouTube
I've asked a version of this question before, and found a workaround solution that worked for a while. But now I'm at a point that I'd like to find a real answer to my problem.
So I edit and color my ...
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How to make this auto-filling text and logo animation?
I found this great video on youtube:
and I just love this text animation at the beginning.
I mean that one which start like black and auto filling itself with white ...
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Chrome renders WebM Video "darker" than other browsers / media players
Not sure if this is the correct community, but I have a question about video encoding and decoding.
I have a video that gets served in MP4 or WebM formats, depending on browser support. I noticed ...
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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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Is there a program that can change monitor color temperature for lighting?
I'm shooting a scene for a film where the actor will be placed in front of a computer monitor. I want to use the monitor to light the actor, but I want to be able to adjust the color temperature to ...
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Is wide-gamut video primarily an increase in saturation (for the layperson)?
Moving from SRGB to P3 and soon Rec2020 for most consumer devices... perceptually, is this just an increase in saturation?
I understand the chromaticity diagrams, and there is of course hue expansion ...
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Should color grading be performed on raw clips, or final sequence?
Camcorders that record in .mts (.mp4) files usually split recorded files according to some maximum time limit per clip. For example, after recording straight for 30 minutes, we might find the entire ...
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Is 8 Bit 4:2:0 chroma subsampling "good enough" for chroma key?
My school bought a Panasonic 4K camcorder (which I don't remember exactly which model) pointed at a green screen and this got me thinking.
If it's a HC-X1000 with it's tiny sized sensor and 8 Bit 4:2:...
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Histogram measurement in single spot
I have a video that I shot for scientific purposes. I would like to measure the colour information in a single spot and export for example the RGB or CMYK values of that spot through every frame into ...
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How to change every black pixel to a special color?
I want to extract all video frames as images and change every black (pure black) pixel of the images to a special color. (R=3,G=3,B=3)
I used this command to extract video frames :
ffmpeg -I myVideo....
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Authentic VHS tape effect in Premiere Pro
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I'm making an artwork and here's how it goes in a nutshell: A fictional movie scene that was (1) shot on film in the '60s, (2) restored in VHS format in the '80s or '90s, and (3) restored ...
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Matte only over items of a specific color?
Example scenario:
I have 4 boxes.
Box 1 is blue, Boxes 2 & 3 are a specific color of red and Box 4 is green.
I would like Box 1 (blue) to only be visible when overlapping a red box.
If Box 1 ...
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How to clean up old animated footage?
Recently I ripped a couple of old DVD's to preserve them.
The original rip has a resolution of 720*576 and runs with 5100kb/s on 25fps interlaced.
I tinkered around with Handbrake and (hopefully) ...
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Difference between 10bit 4:2:2 and 10bit display panels
I'm a bit confused regarding color in bits.
I know of two color "types":
Many more expansive displays offer 10-bit panels with 1 billion, instead of 16 million different colors.
Better video cameras ...
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Premiere Pro CS6: how to change color of a clip as time progresses?
I am trying out a few things for PPro, since I'm new to it (coming from Camtasia Studio 8) and I'm wondering, since a lot can be done, is it possible to not have the clip with a black and white effect,...
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Convert sRGB color to linear Color Space
Just wondering if there is a simple and fast way to convert a specific color from my Illustrator layout file (#e3000b) to a linear Color Space.
I am working in After Effects in a linear color space. ...
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Less color and detail visible when videos are played in VLC (Linux, NVIDIA)
When I watch videos from my GoPro, the colors look much better in Dragonplayer (stock player with KDE). This is the case for both x264 videos:
With HEVC there is also a difference, although I think ...
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Can't fill a shape in After Effects (imported from XD)
I created some User Interface in Adobe XD including some shapes with blur and color each one. In XD everything looks OK, like:
But, when i Export that to After Effects (Adobe XD lets you export ...
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same image MP4 and png color differences
I'm making a 3D animation but, parts of it need to be static. I can use png renders for that, but pang format have slightly another color than mp4's. Because of this, ther's a visible difference when ...
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What makes the colours in UHD demo footage so vibrant?
Whatever display you watch 4k and 8k demo footage on (I'm watching it in 1080p), the colours are so much more vibrant and engaging than 4k footage shot on phones, filmed for and shown on broadcast TV, ...
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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 can a more dynamic look of graphics be achieved in Flash CS 5.5?
I have two graphics each moving on a separate guide (path) on the main timeline. Both graphics have their own timelines with multiple layers of other graphics which are animated further to perform ...
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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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Color shift uploading to Youtube
I have an animation i After Effects (1920x1080, 25fps, Color working space sRGB 1966) with Illustrator doc in sRGB. The colors are correct when playing in project and also when exported and playing in ...
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Quicktime PNG codecs turn blue on most recent Premiere Pro CC update
I recently updated my copy of Premiere CC to 2015.4, and many of my downloaded effects overlay videos turned blue. (Attached is a blood spray effect). These were all downloaded from the website ...
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Is 4K good enough to choose for special footage such as weddings?
Resolution is obviously better in 4K but can anyone give some insight as to whether other factors of video quality are being compromised? If so, does it make sense to record in 1080?
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