[MacDV] Re: Digitaal 8 vs Mini DV

[Richard Brown]

If the offending color, such as the grass, maintains a consistency of 
tone, the Eureka! plugins for Final Cut Pro, including the selective 
color corrector can work wonders. We used it to change the water in an 
aerial shot of a bay with an uneven shoreline of dense foliage with 
excellent results.

Additionally, and of course, the Three Color Corrector in Final Cut Pro 
can quite easily match disparate cameras. Occasionally, however, you 
will need to do it in stages, using multiple iterations of the Three 
Color Corrector if the cameras render multiple hues differently (skies 
vs. skin vs. grass, for example.)

One thing to check with different cameras is the Gamma of each, in that 
different CCD's will vary in that arena as well...

Just a note or two...

Richard Brown



On Dec 16, 2003, at 9:37 AM, R B Williams wrote:

> I've noticed the same thing with Sony & Canon. I believe it has to do 
> with the different
> optics in each camera, though it may also have to do with the CCD chip 
> itself. You can
> get around the issue if each camera has white balance that can be set 
> by the user.
> Simply set them both to the same reference white card under the 
> stadium lights at each
> event.
>
> For footage that is already on tape, pick the one that has the best 
> color rendition as
> your reference. Copy the second reel to another digital recorder (or 
> camera via AV out's
> & in's) through an external color processor. Then capture from that.
>
> You can probably correct captured footage too in the computer, but 
> there would be
> rendering times to contend with and I don't think the results are 
> visably different.
>
> Robert Williams
>
> riceramblz at mac.com wrote: