Colour correction

[Marbro_za]

Do you guys do anything like that in your vids?

 

[CBRHoonigan]

Sometimes i use some after effects, i make it all black and white except my helmet

 

[monkeystrada]

Not worth the effort for a youtube vlog tbh. Perhaps if a certain section of footage has got a really bad color tinge/hue problem or its way too over/under exposed, but not for the whole thing

I've run stuff through Final Cut Pro's auto color correction stuff before but doesnt make THAT much difference, just takes 10x longer to import/analyze the footage!

 

[Marbro_za]

So not worth it then... ok!
thanks guys

 

[Arctic Pride]

The footage that comes out of the Hero3 is pretty good, once in a while I'll mess with levels but not much. I'm using Vegas, not sure if Premier has better adjustment qualities

 

[EN187]

If your using Premiere use Fast Color Corrector, pretty much everything you want / need to adjust, doesn't effect encode time at all..

 

[ariderslife]

Do you guys do anything like that in your vids?

Yep, generally 15% boost in colours, and i lighten the Midtones a bit and darken the whites.

 

[TheDutchTexan]

Yeah, I do some contrasting. The HDR-AS15 I got makes everything a bit more colorful than it really is!

 

[Marbro_za]

stupid camera's making things better than they really are

 

[CBRHoonigan]

i think im just going to try with my cameras settings first its still set up from the box haha

 

[Shirou]

I only color-correct footage to match the output of different cameras and to make the footage look more life-like, with no bias or characteristic hues from the different cameras.
Now... "Artistic" "color correction" is stupid, distracting, pointless and it ruins all video experience.

A show that I liked an since season 20 made abusive overuse of "color-incorrection" is Top Gear. For me, that show is a reference in video production because of the materials and tricks they do. I enjoy a LOT watching the show but overusing that feat has become annoying to the point of just skipping parts of the show that are so unbalanced that is painful to watch.

For example, an old extract from season 18, subtle effects:

Not so subtle here

All the way to Instagram quality video

All color settings so abused that the borders look blue

See the difference, Tip: It's not just the sun hitting the camera

I... I don't know what this has become.

 

[janx101]

i see what you mean shirou... but those 2 of james may .... 2x "different backgrounds, direction of travel/light source and moments in time" ... thats not a fair one?! ... not disputing they do it... but 2 of the same shot with before and after correction would be kinda better?

 

[Shirou]

Ok, not a very fair comparison with those two but I found a closer shot to compare. Same incidence of sunlight and same background.
It will be impossible to find a raw shot so no way to compare before-after the color retouch.

 

[CBRHoonigan]

I kinda like what top gear do with their colour correction, i just watch it for the cool cars and the jokers haha

 

[zordflea]

I add a touch of colour filter to warm up my footage just a tad. After cutting in Premiere, I do all the post in After Effects.

And Top Gear is just awesome btw. I don't mind some of the extremes that go to with the footage, because it suits the style of the show.

 

[phildobaggins]

I have an HDR-AS15 as well.

I use the following in Power Director 12:

Contrast: +15ish
Vibrancy: +3ish
Color Saturation: +15ish
Brightness: +3ish

I still cant find a good combo of settings that keeps the youtube conversion from chunking up my videos. The following was shot on 1080p 60fps and uploaded at 8 mbps which maybe my problem. I just don't feel like uploading a 500 second video at 30mbps lol.

 

[Shirou]

I have an HDR-AS15 as well.

I use the following in Power Director 12:

Contrast: +15ish
Vibrancy: +3ish
Color Saturation: +15ish
Brightness: +3ish

I still cant find a good combo of settings that keeps the youtube conversion from chunking up my videos. The following was shot on 1080p 60fps and uploaded at 8 mbps which maybe my problem. I just don't feel like uploading a 500 second video at 30mbps lol.

8 mbit/s is way too low bit-rate for 1920x1080@60fps. Try encoding in two or even three times that. I use VBR 8 mbit/s Avg, 10 mbit/s Max for 1280x720@30FPS

 

[phildobaggins]

I'm recompiling the video at 30mbps and reuploading tonight as a test

 

[CaturLifeLive]

I use Newblue fx for it

 

[SwissMotard]

I don't touch it as the Hero 3+ Black does a good job of not over saturating the colours, and doesn't need enough correction to be worth while.