Tuesday
Jul172007
Today's Color Before/After
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 5:26PM Someone commented on my last post, asking if I'd had any time to play with Apple's Color.
I have—in fact I devoured it rather ferociously the minute I got it installed. And it turns out everything I wrote about it after NAB holds true. It is both awesomely powerful and infuriatingly quirky. I'll expand on that in a future post, but in the meantime here's a before/after example, using a shot from Eric Escobar's short film A sus órdenes.
Reader Comments (12)
Stu, I would be interested to hear your comments and even see a comparison of doing this in Colorista and/or Magic Bullet.
Being PC based, I am setting up Premiere and AE edit suite. I have Colorista for both Prem and AE. Looking forward to MB Look 3, to complete the post CC finishing.
-cb
Looks good Stu...I like how the soft highlights on the face are brought out and bloom a little more in the "post" pic.
I would have to agree with Anonymous.
Can you post some comparisons?
I've been producing videos just so i can do CC and Grading. I love it, I'm hooked.
Though all I am using is Premier and AE. Any comparisons would be awesome!
I find myself still preferring Colorista for some things, because Color still seems to boost the luma of your shadows when you push color into them (even with the "limit shadow adjustments" setting turned on). As wonderful as Color is (I use it in realworld, client supervised situations), this behavior of Color still annoys me.
It also does not appear to honor float space, even though there's a color depth setting for Float in the Color User Prefs. As such, any highlights you clip in Color will be lost forever, unlike Colorista (in After Effects, at least).
Hey Stu
Great CC just wondering what Eric shot this on? A varicam perhaps?
Thanks
Tats
nice grade Stu! Care to share the setup ;)
Were you just messing on a dual monitor setup or were you on a crt ?
It's a funny GUI to get used to but it's real quick once learnt.
looks nice.
seems like a powerful app but MB3 to me feels like someone actually thought about an operator/artist using it :)
MB3 does look very nice, gui wise.. and workflow wise.. but colourists have been working with these types of layouts for years, though I can't wait to try MB3.. any release date out yet?
Hey Sam,
I shot this on a Panasonic Varicam with a Pro35 adapter and set of Zeiss Super Speed Primes, maybe that was the 50? I don't remember.
Eric
I love the corrected frame though the contrast seems a little strong the way I see it in the browser.
It is nice though - the subject's face in the after frame becomes a stronger focal point, which is what I would want in my shots.
Thanks for posting an example - I'm still arm's length from Color while I learn about it more.
Looks real nice Eric.
Thanks. Those were the salad days of when I had access to a Varicam, Pro35 and a set of Zeiss primes. It looked great but it was bulky and required an actual crew. I am a total convert to smaller cameras and lens adapters that will let you work with off the shelf Nikkors.