Avid Ds Color Spot Checker

hi this is Igor from HDhead.com. I have a new preset I'd like to show you Inalsa give you a couple tips on basic color correction balancing here's the precepts we can changes size up this crop we can move it left and right we can move it up and down and we can also make the back on the superior bringing backup so what does this piece that use for what used to select an area of the screen you like to mention the scope so for example if you just want to mention the magenta on your scope you narrow down the area and the turn of the background they'll give you an accurate reading of that one little rectangle how to use preset on actual shot assert you an example from the Colombian feature film lawsuit LCL directed by one rebate who was a generous to let me use this clip for the purpose of this tutorial if you look at the shop the way the color set up right now the way it's balanced it looks a little lifeless the skin college it's not right you could work on the shots just looking at this one frame and it's like you could do a pretty good job but if you had a pure black into white reference somewhere in the shot you could bounce those outs on your scope if you look at the RGB parade you know where the black so you know where the whites are so few if you think this is the same level this will be pure white this will be pure black down here but where you find the black and white reference the production slate is a good place if you select the clip and if this is a file-based show not to take this show because I think this show your clip links with the just what seen on the time I'm plus a little bit of handles but if you look in files it's likely they have the entire take from the time the camera start until it stopped right now I'm using the PX file so I do have the headshot with Eclipse selected you go down here make sure that clip is enabled time-line is three buttons is switched on by the full but you wanna be in click mode select the source field coffee it would control see on the keyboard taken 0 Press enter and you got the beginning of the shots now you see the slates and because we copied this time could we can be stored position up the cliff anytime by selecting the field and pasting we control the go back to make this really fast when you work you can also change your Lacombe tablet express keys which I do very often and there's a tutorial solely on that subject on customizing welcome keys I was a copy and paste and for this purpose I've modified copy to give me a keystroke of control C so that's coffee 0 the texan is your time critics the clip to the beginning an answer to accept the thanked 0 so if I select the clip select the field hit the key on the back on tablets takes me to the beginning select is back and that push space and text me back it's really fast when you color correcting you can just toggle back and forth instantaneously let's see how we gonna call cracked so I'll take the clip to the color corrector select the clip suck the field go to the beginning of the clip and let's bring in spot color checker I'm going to move it a little bit down to just to see the area of the slave has black and whites a stripes it's okay to be catching a little bit of bread amino little bit for yellow actually this red onions so number two its fine because it's it's a very small area it was really confused some us on the scope you can turn off the back rim completely but even if you don't you will clearly telling the scope where that is because the amplitude of that single be a lot lower even on the screen without a scope you could see that this is a lotta blue and green tinge to it let's go to the color corrected that there are many different ways you can balance of color in the shots look and see the one is better than the other but in this case I'm going to use the ITV tab to counteract green and blue contamination shot I would bring red up to about their so if we toggle back and forth you can see the difference this this looks a lot better and now I can bypass I can delete this pop culture could start its job is a shot and it's like the clip select the field based or if the result I could value it you can see this looks a lot better than and it used to be that's before and after before after so this is a well-balanced shot a good starting point for color correction your skin tone is pretty close to what needs to be so you can take from there when you use this method of color balancing usually you need to do this only one time per a scene set up if one can miss you sometimes twice if they can be cameras because once you establish the offsets that you need then you can see the color correction setting in apply to all the other clips in the scene so you don't have to do for each one of them let's take a look at how this she said actually works good thing about it is that it works any frame size it's just basically one TV watch what happens on here with the crop controls a DVD as I move size she were cropping in and if I pan to the left only the left and right cropper moving if I pan up and down on the top and bottom a moving they're all very similar if you look at one of them all the other ones use in our math go inside the expression editor the reason why this works in any size because we're using F Y and F X values that return the sizeof the current sequence to download the color spot check or you can visit she had dot com this effect will work with any DS version 10