After starting to colour grade all of our clips, we suddenly struck a problem surrounding the aspect of sending the file back to Final Cut Pro from Color.
The issue was that whem the footage arrived back onto Final Cut Pro, there were some clips missing and some which hadn't been colour graded. We believe this was due to a glitch in our computer, as all of the files were the correct type and there was no other obvious explanation.
To solve this, we had to find the missing clips and slot them back into their positions by looking back at the original sequence (luckily we had saved a copy!) After we had put them back in their place, we had to individually put each one through Color, so this process was far more time consuming than we initially planned.
However, once this process was complete, we were really happy with the look of the footage. Beforehand we were unsure as to whether it all intertwined together well, but this must have been to lighting and colour issues, as when the filtered clips were finished, it had a much more professional feel to it.
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Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Saturday, 14 December 2013
Colour Grading
Because we had shot in a number of different locations, we knew that we would need to colour grade in order for the sequence to be consistent.
The powder paint fight shots were rather grainy so needed the contrast and brightness levels adjusted. The studio shots needed lifting up as it was a little dull, and the smashing plates/lip syncing shots needed the saturation increased to highlight the bright colours within the frames.
We used the programme, 'Color' to filter our shots through, however, none of us had previously used this editor before. To gain experience and knowledge, we watched several different online tutorials which were all really helpful in getting us started from the basics. We also experimented with the programme first hand, playing about with the different features and what they do.
We eventually realised that we had to do this whole process clip by clip, applying different filters (which could be saved separately, then dragged and dropped) onto each clip. This was a lengthy process which required a lot of patience - especially due to the amount of choppy shots we used.
We changed the colours, the contrast and the lighting and we then sent the sequence back to Final Cut Pro so that we could edit more if we needed too. The colour grading made the footage look like one whole music video and what made everything fit together in the end. This whole process was very successful.
The powder paint fight shots were rather grainy so needed the contrast and brightness levels adjusted. The studio shots needed lifting up as it was a little dull, and the smashing plates/lip syncing shots needed the saturation increased to highlight the bright colours within the frames.
We used the programme, 'Color' to filter our shots through, however, none of us had previously used this editor before. To gain experience and knowledge, we watched several different online tutorials which were all really helpful in getting us started from the basics. We also experimented with the programme first hand, playing about with the different features and what they do.
We eventually realised that we had to do this whole process clip by clip, applying different filters (which could be saved separately, then dragged and dropped) onto each clip. This was a lengthy process which required a lot of patience - especially due to the amount of choppy shots we used.
We changed the colours, the contrast and the lighting and we then sent the sequence back to Final Cut Pro so that we could edit more if we needed too. The colour grading made the footage look like one whole music video and what made everything fit together in the end. This whole process was very successful.
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