Hi urbex movie people

I tend to make videos really fast, while I'm still in the afterglow of an experience, and I've developed a really fast editing approach. One thing though that I could use some advice about is how to match the colour response of two different cameras in post.

Take for example this movie - shot yesterday afternoon.



The head-mounted GoPro is warm-toned and saturated, vibrant greens. The handheld/tripod Panasonic is more woody, chocolately brown, and slightly cooler. The colour difference is most apparent when cutting between the two cameras looking at the same scene. While I'm not one to overly fuss as I like to work quickly, I'm just wondering if anyone has experience with this and some wisdom to share. So far I have played with the 'Fast Color Corrector' tool in Premiere, and I downloaded a trial version of Re:Match plugin by Re:Vision - although the results with the latter weren't persuasive enough for me to follow through and buy it. Any thoughts welcome...

Cheers, and happy movie-making

I generally use one camera only in my explorations so I don't have to deal with color grading much. I would honestly say just play around with different color levels and try to get them as close as possible. I know Vegas has a bunch of color tools, not sure what your software has available.

Posted by JKuhnss I generally use one camera only in my explorations so I don't have to deal with color grading much. I would honestly say just play around with different color levels and try to get them as close as possible. I know Vegas has a bunch of color tools, not sure what your software has available.

Cheers JK. I'll put a bit more time into building a colour grading preset.

What program do you use to edit?

Posted by CatAndTie What program do you use to edit?

I use Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 with a few third-party plugins. How about you CatAndTie?

Posted by GunnerNZ I use Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 with a few third-party plugins. How about you CatAndTie?

I'm on Final Cut Pro 7 mostly. I do have Adobe Premiere CS6 as well, but haven't really gotten too far into it yet... although I expect I will be using After Effects soonish as I am in the editing stage of a feature film and I always hear good things about AE.

PS, I'm at work so I can't really watch the video right now, but if I remember I will try to do so sometime this week and let you know.

But yeah, I basically use the 3 way color corrector in FCP for a majority of it, and they have the "Color" program if I wanted to get extreme, but again haven't really dove into that field much yet.

Posted by CatAndTie I'm on Final Cut Pro 7 mostly. I do have Adobe Premiere CS6 as well, but haven't really gotten too far into it yet... although I expect I will be using After Effects soonish as I am in the editing stage of a feature film and I always hear good things about AE.

Good to meet you, and all the best for your film! I know some people find editing exasperating, but I love it. I haven't used AE either, but it integrates really well with Premiere from what I have seen. I have been recommended Max software for what I'm working on. I have looked at some online videos, and it looks very different. More like a coding language than a traditional editing interface. Looks highly flexible, but technical. I guess I'm just going to have to trust the advice and dive in...

While it will take a while to "perfectly" match two separate cameras. It's fairly simple to get them looking similar in CS. There are several ways of doing it, but if it was me.

* Click window - workspace - colour correction.
* Double click the clip you want to try and match with which will bring it into the source window.
* Now find the clip you want to correct by scrolling along the timeline, until it is in the reference window.
* Add the filter "Three way colour correction" and then in the effect panel, fiddle with the sliders and colours until it looks right.
* When you're done you can save the effect as a preset and simply drop it onto every other clip you want to correct.

Again, getting it perfect will take time, but this method will at least make the cuts less jarring.

Hope that helps.

Just watched it… the cuts between cameras was also more jarring (color change more noticeable) perhaps because the viewpoint barely shifted if at all… a simple fade into it might make it less noticeable if the shots are to be that similar. ex. @ 2:53

Just another thought. It might not make it stand out as much.

Magic bullet looks, really easy if you have no experience with color grading