{"id":477,"date":"2008-09-18T14:22:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T19:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=477"},"modified":"2008-09-18T14:23:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T19:23:43","slug":"music-video-grading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/477","title":{"rendered":"Music Video Grading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/images\/cc\/till_youre_gone\/rollover.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<!--\nprepare_images();\n\/\/--><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Recently I did some color correction for the dudes who did the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AJzU3NjDikY\">stop motion fight video &#8220;Tony vs. Paul&#8221;<\/a> you may have seen on youtube.  They were doing a music video for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/gabedixonband\">Gabe Dixon Band<\/a> and needed someone to pull the excessive warmth out of the images.  I brought over my trusty tablet and helped them find a good look for the video.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy with how it turned out.  I was able to rediscover the colors that had been used to light the band, including a really nice blue rimlight.  I took that same blue and pushed it into the shadows which really cooled the whole thing down.  I also used a secondary correction ((secondary correction: A color correction that is only applied to part of the image.  In this case, only parts of the image with a certain type of red were affected)) to boost the color of the red shirts which animate on-screen.  <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the black levels are still too inconsistent, and the color grading introduced some ugly dithering and banding in the shadows ((the video was shot on the <a href=\"http:\/\/red.com\">Red Camera<\/a>, so this banding really shouldn&#8217;t have happened &#8212; I&#8217;m not sure where it came from)).  Next time I&#8217;ll watch the blacks more closely and make sure they&#8217;re smoother.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the whole video (click through to Vimeo to see it larger) and I have some after-and-before stills below.  Roll over the images to see how they looked coming out of Final Cut.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1627070&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1627070&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/1627070?pg=embed&amp;sec=1627070\">Till You&#8217;re Gone<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/concord?pg=embed&amp;sec=1627070\">Concord Music Group<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;sec=1627070\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\" onmouseover=\"document.gonerollover1.src=full_band2.src\" onmouseout=\"document.gonerollover1.src=full_band1.src\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/images\/cc\/till_youre_gone\/full_band_cc.jpg\" name=\"gonerollover1\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\" onmouseover=\"document.gonerollover5.src=piano_innards2.src\" onmouseout=\"document.gonerollover5.src=piano_innards1.src\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/images\/cc\/till_youre_gone\/piano_innards_cc.jpg\" name=\"gonerollover5\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\" onmouseover=\"document.gonerollover2.src=floor_people2.src\" onmouseout=\"document.gonerollover2.src=floor_people1.src\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/images\/cc\/till_youre_gone\/floor_people_cc.jpg\" name=\"gonerollover2\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\" onmouseover=\"document.gonerollover3.src=pianist2.src\" onmouseout=\"document.gonerollover3.src=pianist1.src\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/images\/cc\/till_youre_gone\/pianist_cc.jpg\" name=\"gonerollover3\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\" onmouseover=\"document.gonerollover4.src=drummer2.src\" onmouseout=\"document.gonerollover4.src=drummer1.src\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/images\/cc\/till_youre_gone\/drummer_cc.jpg\" name=\"gonerollover4\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I did some color correction for the dudes who did the stop motion fight video &#8220;Tony vs. Paul&#8221; you may have seen on youtube. They were doing a music video for the Gabe Dixon Band and needed someone to pull the excessive warmth out of the images. I brought over my trusty tablet and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Music Video Grading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}