At 07:57 AM 2/12/2007, Tony wrote:
>Replacing Red's in underwater video. is there any hard and fast rule as
>to how the settings in Adobe-Premiere should be for say 10 meters 20
>meters and so on, I am fairly new to Premiere and cant seem to get the
>red balance Just right, get the red right and the blue goes off and so
>on, has any one in the group any experience of replacing colour?, which
>colour correction tool to use?
I do a lot of underwater work, and there's no hard and fast rule for
color correction in Premiere. Different conditions need different
corrections because water can range from blue to green, and poor
visibility can make things too blue as low as five meters down.
I use the Color Balance effect in the Adjust folder in Premiere Pro
2.0. It gives me control of RGB balance individually for bright,
medium, and dark areas, which often need different adjustments. There
are numerous other color tweaking effects you can play with to see if
you can get better results. It's often worth just dropping the Auto
Color effect on a clip to see if it helps out.
It's very important when shooting the original footage to try for the
best color balance possible during the shoot. That requires manual
white balance and usually a blue-water filter as well to counter the
huge blue floodlight you're shooting under. The camera's auto white
balance can't handle underwater colors. Without filtering out at
least some of the blue it will overpower what remains of red and
green. That means that they won't even be recorded so there's no way
you can correct them in Premiere.
Footage shot too far out of white balance isn't fixable in Premiere.
I know: I've tried numerous times. In such cases you just have to
give up and go with the blue if the subject matter is so compelling
you have to include it.
Mike Boom
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