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CC and Color Grading Workflow

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messplay
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Interested what you guys do. Is there anyone in here color correcting in PS CS6 or Lightroom 3/4? If you're on a MAC, do you use Color? Are you doing everything in FCP7/X, Premiere, or Vegas?

It looks like if you know how to use PS then it seems a lot quicker. Also, Lightroom seems quick too but as far as I'm aware, you can't edit actual clips in Lightroom but in PS you can import as many clips as you want and put in the given effects there prior to exporting...then audio, syncing, and transitions would only be used in the programs like Premiere and FCP.

Post your workflow, if there is one, for any layering of video that isn't already customized from a custom picture style you're using on the cam...I assume a majority of you are using flat .pf2's :)


Dec 16 2012 5:40PM 2 1
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eheath
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I used Colorista II in Premier.
Dec 16 2012 6:11PM 0 0
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Mag
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OP is confusing, are you asking for video? And if so why are you talking about ps and lr?
Dec 16 2012 7:29PM 0 0
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messplay
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I'm not asking for video I am asking for a workflow.

Your steps in color grading your videos which I assume everyone does to an extent - some moreso than others. And I mention LR and PS becasue I have used both before and am hoping to get more serious about it if I dont buy this program to give my clips certain looks i.e: expired kodak 100, portra 400++, etc...but with the 1,000s of presets available for PS as one would use in photos it could be a different way to attack it.

Maybe I'm speaking to the wrong crowd as skiing edits in themselves are of certain contrast and brightness due to the snow and less containing the effects a street/lifestyle shot would include.


Dec 16 2012 8:05PM 0 0
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EH_DUBS
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my workflow is all in premiere and after effects.. this is what i do anyways..

start with your timeline in premiere. go to window and change your workspace to colour correction mode.

I change the bottom screen to show a yv waveform (click small list tab in upper corner) to check your exposure.

then in premiere Id normally apply brightness and contrast, colour balance, curves, maybe a tint. basicly just get the image to look neutral and exposed right. do that for every clip, also premiere has the three way colour corrector

Then I normally nest the sequence and make it one big clip. and then right click and "replace with after effects composition". then it dynamically links your project into after effects (make live updated changes between ae & premiere). after that i chop up adjustment layers to my clips and start with my grading in after effects.

in after effects i may or may not use the effects mentioned before, things that are fun to play around with are photofilter, vibrance, levels, hue/saturation, selective colour, maybe add a vingette here, or make some select focus tilt shift blur crap.

If your really serious about colour correction learn to use colour finnesse in after effects. Its the big guns.

...Or you...could.. just go use the magic bullet presets.

Im by all means unexperienced at colours and still learning, share your knowledge.

Dec 16 2012 9:04PM 0 0
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erikK
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^ good response,
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Dec 17 2012 3:05AM 0 0
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Dec 17 2012 11:31AM 0 0
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Official_Recap
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My previous workflow was air-tight and very efficient:
Edit in Final Cut Pro 7, send to Apple Color, run color corrections in the "primary in room" and then grade in the "primary out room" with slight variations depending on project. Render everything out, send back to FCP to run through audio mix and export.

However, now in Premiere Pro CS6, I've been searching for the most efficient and effective route to pursue. Tried Speedgrade and HATED it. Have been able to run some very annoying round-trips through Apple Color from Premiere via DPX sequences, but the speeds have not been lining up. I'm currently looking into DaVinci Resolve 9 (Lite) as a switch from Color. The workflow would then be:

Edit in Premiere Pro, export XML, open directory and XML in DaVinci Resolve to run through color corrections and then grades, then export from there or send back to Premiere via XML depending on the project and how Resolve actually works (haven't actually done this yet).

Dec 17 2012 1:45PM 0 0
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juicedrummer11
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mine is very similar to this one ^

once i have the final cut locked how i want it in FCP7, i send it to color. make any corrections and basic contrast adjustments in primary in room, grade in secondaries depending on the project, then sometimes use primary out for any minor touch ups or adjustments, send back to fcp and make last fades, text, and audio adjustments and export
Dec 18 2012 11:37AM 0 0
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chuch_skier
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Here's my workflow.
1. creative editing in fcp 7
2. export xml from fcp
3. import xml to Davinci resolve lite
4. Do CC + CG in resolve

Dec 19 2012 1:38PM 0 0
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