Rob Hester
January 10th, 2004, 12:17 AM
my lil ol 3000 doesn't have CB, neither zebra patterns - i know what zebra helps with, but what about colour bars?
now on to the white balancing...
I want all of my footage to come out the same colour-wise...white balancing seems to help, but there are situations where white balance doesn't accuratly reproduce the environment's colour tones...ex a guy playing a white piano with a red light shot on him (I am probably setting this up wrong...what would you make the cam choose for white? or is it impossible in this situation?)
I have found that trying to edit every single clip to get the same colours (as well as brightness levels - which i will certainly handle better with practice) is insanely tedious!
wouldn't it be nice if there was some automated way? say..before I shot i got someone to hold up a colour bar card in the conditions (for every shot) and then in post it was auto-calibrated? (the same would go for a brightness chart...something that would go from white to black in gradation)
hopefully there are some people out there with answers...i am really trying to stretch the value of my cam as much as possible...so buying equipment isn't in the budget - i was very lucky to get what I could with teh 3000...my original budget was 300 CAD!
anyways, thanks for the time...(again...2 in one night...hey! free time at university is hard to come by!)
Rob
now on to the white balancing...
I want all of my footage to come out the same colour-wise...white balancing seems to help, but there are situations where white balance doesn't accuratly reproduce the environment's colour tones...ex a guy playing a white piano with a red light shot on him (I am probably setting this up wrong...what would you make the cam choose for white? or is it impossible in this situation?)
I have found that trying to edit every single clip to get the same colours (as well as brightness levels - which i will certainly handle better with practice) is insanely tedious!
wouldn't it be nice if there was some automated way? say..before I shot i got someone to hold up a colour bar card in the conditions (for every shot) and then in post it was auto-calibrated? (the same would go for a brightness chart...something that would go from white to black in gradation)
hopefully there are some people out there with answers...i am really trying to stretch the value of my cam as much as possible...so buying equipment isn't in the budget - i was very lucky to get what I could with teh 3000...my original budget was 300 CAD!
anyways, thanks for the time...(again...2 in one night...hey! free time at university is hard to come by!)
Rob