Hi guys,
Could you please give me your thoughts on where to start when one needs to apply certain visual effects to the film and at the same time apply specific color correction. I mean that visual effects will be applied to the part of the film but color correction will affect the entire fiml. I think that proper color correction should come first so set the overall look and tone and after that apply visual effects that would match the color. Is that the right way to do? Anyone is aware of how it is done in the industry?
Thanks in advance.
It would help to know what you're editing on, what kind of effects you want to do and what you shot on.
It sounds like film if you're talking about all of the footage being color corrected. If not, you certainly don't want to color correct using a blanket approach.
And don't worry about how it's done "in the industry". You're not the industry, so might do things differently.
As for the color corection, the certain tone and color will be given to the entire footage.
And the effects i'm talking about are digital smoke, shots fired, blood splatters, explosions.
Those should all come before the color correction. Otherwise they'll stick out.
I still would recommend against using 1 blanket color effect for the whole film, taking it shot by shot is more time consuming, but works much better.
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Originally posted by DaveD
I still would recommend against using 1 blanket color effect for the whole film, taking it shot by shot is more time consuming, but works much better.
Personally I tend to do a rough color grading for an entire scene (which is often the same grading as used for other scenes in that location) and then adjust each shot to make them match up.
Dave, Mark,
Thanks a lot. Your advices gave me a good idea of what to do. Cheers.
