Free internet tutorials are very helpful, including many free Photoshop and AfterEffects color correction sites, and tutorials for Vegas and other products I don't use.ĭaVinci Resolve Lite is nice, but too complicated for beginners. Like others, I learned much from this forum and several members who no longer visit here.
I started in video where everyone starts, with no idea about what I was doing until I did lots of reading, observing, and practice.
Thanks LMotlow It's too difficult for me.You are professional Cameraman ?Īnyway, thanks LMotlow, thanks smrpix, you are a warm persons I'm a hobbyist like yourself, not a professional. It's a Photoshop site that talks about camera histograms, but keep in mind that the principles of color and tonal contrast for still photos and video are the same. A site that I was referred to from videohelp several years ago is one that I found to be very helpful. There are many web tutorials on histograms and what they tell you about an image. You also have to learn to use histograms, pixel samplers, and a few other tools.
But some things are just not correct, such as the crushed darks and burned-out color in your 720p original. Yes, color balance is of course a personal preference. But few people can afford AE or the ColorFinesse plugin that comes with it, so I interpolated all the settings to Avisynth and VirtualDub filters (ColorMill, Levels, and Curves) and got pretty much the same results. The first filter I loaded was a Hue filter to tame blue saturation and turn the color spectrum toward Red/Yellow. I made these corrections in Rec709 RGB in AfterEffects. Here are three more frames from the same video using the same filters with slightly different settings to suit each scene: The blue cast is obvious, and so are the inappropriate saturation and midtone levels.īelow, the same frame 19051 after correction with Hue, gamma Levels, and curves filters.
If it doesn't look blue to you, you need to calibrate your monitor.
The image below is frame 19051 from the 1080p video. I suspect a color matrix problem somewhere, but even though it looks blue (skin tones look bad, almost grayed out with cyan) red is not only turning violet but the bright end is too extended. Especially, the image below shows that the video is too blue. What you should learn to use are filters to correct gamma, midtones, and saturation of specific colors. Using typical brightness and contrast filters would be the wrong path to take. Luma is okay, but despite the muddy look of the colors, most chroma exceeds RGB 255. There are some soft edges, color bleed, some halos, which I didn't try to fix. I did that, and found a number of compression artifacts but not anything that can't be fixed. You can keep 50p if you resize to 1280x720, which would be BluRay compliant. If you were thinking of authoring this to BluRay disc, 1920x1080 at 50p is not valid for BluRay. I'm not sure what you want to do with the better video, which is the SBS 1920x1080. If you do manage to raise the dark levels in that clip, you're going to find a lot of noise in that area that will be difficult to clean. The 720p has too many compression artifacts - 2000kbps is just too miserly for 720p action video. They're too crude and hardly ever give you what you want. I would avoid "Brightness" and "Contrast" filters. Like jagabo, I see that smaller clip as far too dark, and the colors are wrecked. As he says, some of the camera shots will need slightly different filter settings - even HD broadcast is seldom uniform from start to finish. I hope you guys enjoy this tutorial and find it helpful! It took me days to edit this raw footage which was hours long so it was definitely a struggle putting this all together.I agree with msrpix, you should correct the YUV luma levels first for the fujitv 720p video. This tutorial is structured for beginners that have either little to no experience with Sony Vegas Pro. This tutorial is user friendly and will definitely be a great start to everything you need to know for beginners.
Muaaz In today's video I'll show you how to edit on Sony Vegas Pro 16! I use Sony Vegas Pro 16 to edit my videos and hopefully this Sony Vegas tutorial for beginners can help you guys out as well! This is an extensive guide covering all the basics such as the best render settings for 1080p 60fps, the best color corrections settings for Fortnite, and so much more! You'll learn how to fade in and fade out for both video and audio, the best Vegas project settings, how to import files such as videos, music and other media, etc.