The Digital Video Special Interest Group (SIG) brings together presentations on video editing and special effects software, including Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, and Adobe After Effects. Members share their experiences with video taping and using related software tools such as Adobe Photoshop. Camera equipment, both still and video, is also demonstrated and reviewed. Terry Syndergaard is the Manager of this SIG, which meets on the second Tuesday of every month. The fee for non-OCMMA members is $10, or $5 for students. Visit www.ocmma.org for more information.
Program: "Fix It in Post" - When Disaster Strikes
Color correction can be used to beautify already nice footage, but what about those situations where you're desperate to make it usable? Let me say, unequivocally, it's always best to reshoot - when you can. If you can't - there was no take two, it was a live event and you're stuck with what you got - you just might have to resort to Final Cut Pro's color correction.
Terry Syndergaard will demonstrate Final Cut's 3-Way Color Corrector for the main fixes, supplemented by Secondary color correction - selecting a color range, say, just the too-yellow scarves, and showing how to apply it to only those certain areas using procedural masking. Terry will show how to keyframe the correction for both fast and slow changes in light quality.
A single change is not too difficult. It gets tricky when a camera is constantly changing. An unfortunate power outtage resulted in all our careful settings being useless. While a Hollywood production would never tolerate this kind of accident, sometimes we of the lower budget are stuck.
Note: Become aware of when to distrust your camera's LCD screen. In low light situations LCD screens show a much brighter picture than you are actually capturing, so if you dial your aperture down till it looks good on LCD it will be too dark. The cost of brightening it in post is not only time and money but also in quality - we're talking noise here. Boosting dark footage results in noisy video. The bigger the needed boost, the worse the noise.
So, do you "Fix it in post" when disaster strikes?
Not if you can possibly avoid it! Join us for our How To Fix It Show.
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