Taking the green out of the video...

[Dekeersmaecker]

Hi all,

anybody a god idea on how to take the green out of a dive video? Sort of like we can do with Photoshop filters fro pictures. I work with Adobe Premiere 2.0, and don't like the results I get from the standard filters (and it is way less automatic than with Photoshop).

My latest video can be found at:

http://kees.dns2go.com/Diving/2006/A...ortMcNeil.html

[Mark]

I use Pinnacle Studio, it has colour correction built in which works quite good for most clips. It allows you to select which clips you want to use it in, or all clips, sometimes it does some funny things between clips though.

[Dekeersmaecker]

I'll try it out.. I think I have a copy (euh.. original, blush) somewhere...

I kind of prefer Adobe Premiere though. Maybe I'm just used to it, but I like the way you can do little tweaks...

Dirk

[Dekeersmaecker]

Yep, that worked out fairly well. The general image is way better now. Indeed some strange effects between clips, so I will have to do the clips separately and sometimes if over corrects (to much red), but it's for sure a faster way to correct the color. Now I have to find a way to batch do this for a number of clips, because I still prefer to edit in Premiere...

Thanks for your advice. A big help.

Dirk

[Mark]

Glad I was of some use. I find Pinnacle a good all round package once you get used to it.

[mdemon]

I want to "de-blue" some footage from Egypt. Any ideas how to do this in Premiere, Ulead or MovieShaker please?

I thought I had Pinnacle, but it appears not...

[Mark]

I bought Pinnacle on ebay for £2.99 plus about £1.50 postage. It was an older version (9.4) but cosher and works well.

[mt110121]

well Premier Pro 2.0 has a color corection tool as well but you need to be a little more professionl to be able to work with that. but try it you will learn it got to the help and search what you want to know you can search for tutorials in google as well.

[DeanB]

The Colour correction in Premier is pretty good once you get used to using it. I've got Premier 6 and it works fine..If you have P2 it should be a lot better. Drag the colour correction down of the palette and drop it into your sequence on the timeline and then in the pop-up decrease the red, if in temperate waters slightly increase the green and blue hues. Do this by small percentages until you have something you think is a good look or representation to what you want to achieve. Render it and look check it on a normal TV screen.

Must admit I haven't really edited anything for a while so I hope I'm remembering it right.

Dive safe

DeanB

[Andy Berk]

Originally Posted by Dekeersmaecker

Hi all,

anybody a god idea on how to take the green out of a dive video? Sort of like we can do with Photoshop filters fro pictures. I work with Adobe Premiere 2.0, and don't like the results I get from the standard filters (and it is way less automatic than with Photoshop).

I know this is a 'processing' column but one trick that is worth playing with when shooting green water footage without lights is to set your 'white balance' to artificial light which will render a blue appearance.

Berko