My first ever

[Angel_Ice]

Hi, not sure this is the right room to show this but I hope to recive some constructive critics about this.

Thanks to this forum and all cool people that are here I learned so much in these days so here is my first try in color correction and sky replacement.

Please tell me what u think about and first of all, what I did wrong and what u don't like.

That cool sky was taken from videoCopilot.net

[Trinsic78]

Hiya!
I think the sky replacement went well, but I feel the glare at the horizon that goes from left to right, is a tad too strong. Also, the color corrected version looks like a cross-processed slide film. If that's the way its supposed to look, then its cool.

My thoughts.

Alvin

[Angel_Ice]

Yes, i think you are right. The glare at the horizont is too strong. :-( I think i have to put antoher layer of some blue color like the sky there...
My techniques are mostly self made :bomb: , so i'm not sure what i do i do in the right way.


Also, the color corrected version looks like a cross-processed slide film. If that's the way its supposed to look, then its cool.

Hmm...I don't know if that's a look I wanted to obtain. I just liked it.
Can u give me some link to learn somethink more about color correction if u have one good?

Thanks for your comments! This is the unique way to learn for me.

[Trinsic78]

Hi Angel,
I think you should be searching for "Color Timing" rather than color correction? To me color correction is to get one piece of footage to match another seamlessly (e.g. CG onto live plates). Whereas for the overall look, it should be the timing.

Please correct me if I'm wrong!

Alvin

[Angel_Ice]

Oh I really don't know this difference.
WHat means color timing? I thought that the color correction is just the variation of the color.

[Gautch]

Your right Trinsic78, Color Correction is when your trying to match the color of one shot to another or trying to match the colors in a composite.

Iv never heard of Color Timing. But What Angel_Ice did here is called Color Processing also known as Colorizing. The director would work with a Colorist to get this feel/mood for the film or shot.

If this is the look you were going for then i think you did well, if you were just playing around...i would also say you did well, if you learned from it. Did you use AE, Combustion, or Shake? What was your process?

Try this, take any footage you have lying around, and make that same footage give a different mood. Try to emulate the look of Sin City, any war epic, Matrix, Soap Opera television shows. I know alot of the hardware (cameras, lights, ect... ) will do this, but i can acheive any of thoes "looks/mood" with AE.

So go and play with it. And remember to let us see your Colorized footage, and tell us what you were going for so we can see if you acclomplished it!

[Angel_Ice]

Thanks for your comments Gautch.

What I really done is to put above the bg plate a new sky and tracked the camera to fix them together. I duplicated the bg plate couse I needed to have my sky be behind the mountains. To achive this i keyed the duplicated bg plates old sky.(but I'm not good in this).
I made an adjustment layer and played with curves.

I obtained my first not bad result.

I have the magic bullet plugs on my AE so I applied one of the presets to a new second adjustment layer.

I attach a new images with the first is the original, the second is the final with the 2 adj layers and the third is just with my first curves adj layer.

I know that using presets is not much professional but I'mlearning and I hope one day I will be able to make this processing by my own.

[Angel_Ice]

Try this, take any footage you have lying around, and make that same footage give a different mood. Try to emulate the look of Sin City, any war epic, Matrix, Soap Opera television shows. I know alot of the hardware (cameras, lights, ect... ) will do this, but i can acheive any of thoes "looks/mood" with AE.

Great! U gived me a great tip man!! Ok, I'll do it..
Just one question, I can use plugins? I suppose not couse the plug ins do all by them self. So you mean to try to achieve that effects just using the basic AE, right?
Ok, it's genial.
I will back soon!!! :-)

[modernprimitive]

Hi Angel Ice,

It looks like you have applied a warming filter to the foreground, but the sky is still relatively cool. If you want to do this kind of strong color timing, you should apply Magic bullet to the final layer and not just one of them. I know it does look beautiful because of the nice contrast between cool and warm, but it also looks a bit wrong - if the effect was more subtly, you might get away with it.

Cheers,
Modern Primitive