Color Corecting in AE

Does anyone know how to color correct in after effects or were there is a TUT for doing that if so please post.

 

Use your levels controls and color balance. There's not much to it.

 

Yep, it's all a matter of eyballing it.

 

You'd be better off using Premiere, if you have it.

 

Color correct in PREMIERE?

BWAHAHAHAH *couch splutter* HAHAHAHA

And levels... how primitive.

Use Curves, or Hue/Saturation.

Most people dont know that AE's hue/saturation does a lot more than "just" that, you can go into "Blues", define the exact blue range, and tweak the hue/sat of blues ONLY, then pop up "reds" and tweak those, and so on, and so forth.

VERY powerful, and almost hidden... even I didn't think it could work with all those color ranges AT THE SAME TIME, but it does (I thought the selector for eg. "Blues" switched the effect to ONLY work on blues, but thats not how it works, it only shows the settings for the blues, all the other settings are still active and running)

/Z

 

LOl, I guess this guy will have to have someone else do it for him then...cuz I'm colorblind.

 

>>Color correct in PREMIERE?

BWAHAHAHAH *couch splutter* HAHAHAHA

And levels... how primitive.

Use Curves, or Hue/Saturation.

Most people dont know that AE's hue/saturation does a lot more than "just" that, you can go into "Blues", define the exact blue range, and tweak the hue/sat of blues ONLY, then pop up "reds" and tweak those, and so on, and so forth.
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Hm... Guess Zap doesn't have Premiere Pro - it's ALL there... Curves... sats... split screen functions... More color correcting options than are really comprehensible.
It even has a "color match" function (though I haven't been too successful with that one...)

-Spiff

 

No, no, thats true. I dont have premiere pro.

/Z

 

I know my couch sputters a lot. Looks like Zap's does too.

 

You are right Zap, the hue/saturation control is a powerful tool.

 

is there a demo for Premiere Pro available on Adobe's website. I would like to see it before i start throwing my $$$ at them.

Oh and a quick question. Just how realtime is it? Is it truly like hitting the space-bar and you have your fullmotion video with all dissolves and everything playing without rendering?

thx

 

I recommend using a combination of Levels/Color Balance/ and Hue/Saturation functions.

 

Actually there is a great color correction tutorial for AE.

http://www.geocities.com/pixelmagic2002/CineAlta2.html


Ive used it in all my stuff to date and I personally think its great

 

That's a film-look tutorial. With color correction used for it. Color correction could be used to match foreground and background elements -- not necessarily for the film look.

The manual/online help guides will tell you how the color correction filters work, what they are, how to use them, etc.

 

too bad premiere pro is Windows XP only; I only use Windows 2000 Pro and WILL NOT upgrade (because XP isn't an "improvement" in my opinion)

 

Color Correcting in Premiere Pro is pretty good.

I've made some crappy looking shots look pretty good.

 

Use the histogram, if AE has one? That's what I use in Vegas. Compare what you're working on with a nicely produced movie trailer, and compare the levels. It's also a good idea to have a tv hooked up via a DV camera to make sure certain colours aren't too bright.

 

art: nice bait, but how bout not on this thread?

 

too bad premiere pro is Windows XP only; I only use Windows 2000 Pro and WILL NOT upgrade (because XP isn't an "improvement" in my opinion)

What's bad about XP? I have XP Home and have never had any real problems except with system upgrade.... but I've used Win2K Pro (granted, on a computer with much lower specs) and it seemed about as stable as XP.

I mean, sure, don't get XP only for Premiere Pro... but in a while, if/when most apps are XP only, I'd think you'd want to upgrade to XP.

That said, speaking of AE and Premiere... I already have installed versions on my PC... can I have two versions installed on my PC at once? I.e., Premiere 6.5 and Premiere Pro demo? Ditto with multiple versions of AE.

 

^Well for one, if your like me and have multiple computers, you like to have all the same OS on all the computers. Windows XP can only be installed on one computer (Because of the activation process you have to go through to run it). If you wanted to have XP on all your computers, you would have to buy multiple licences. Which, cost more than it should.

Secondly, WIN XP doesn't run older programs as well as.... older OS's like 2000 & 98. I don't know about you... but I have a lot of old programs and files that refuse to run under XP. The compatablity mode works OK, but it works better on an older OS.

Oh, and just incase you were wondering, I have XP. It ain't so bad, doesn't crash as much as 98. And I've gotten use to the round green highlights. I just boot from 98se on a differn't drive when I need to.