Thanks for the input Mike, guess it just trial and error then, Have just got myself a Blue water filter so that should help, will see next week. many thanks T.C.
--- In [email protected], Mike Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
