Whats up everyone, today we are color matching two really different shots.
Alright so here I am in Premiere Pro, and this is a project we filmed recently for a
charity and we filmed with a Sony a6300 on a gimbal and the Canon C100.
So obviously they have 2 different color profiles and we have to match both.
I already found 2 shots really similar to help me establish my baseline.
Here is the Canon shot and here is the Sony one.
Both were shot in LOG but S-log is a lot more flat than C-log.
Ok, first we will put the lumetri effect on both clips.
So we can just search for it and slide it on your 2 shots.
Sometime what I do, and this can be good for you if you get distracted with colors, is
to turn the image to a black and white image to begin with.
You can do that by going to the Lumetri panel, Basic Correction and turn the saturation down.
By doing that we can focus on the contrast and exposure of the 2 shots without being
distracted by the colors.
Again, its not mandatory but it helps.
Once this is done, just pull up your tools.
Lumetri scopes and the Reference monitor are always what I use.
And we can go between the 2 shots while looking at our RGB parade and see the difference between
the 2.
Here we can see the Clog shot is between 10 and 80, and that the S-log shot is between…
maybe 18 and 65.
That means we have a contrast difference between the 2 shots.
Since Sony has more latitude, I am trying to make that one match the C-log shots so
we will increase contrast here.
We can do a quick comparison; looking at both RGB parade, that confirms what we see on the
reference monitor.
We are a little too dark on the slog shot so we need to shift that.
Try a couple settings see what works well.
And guys, trust your eye too, the tools are there to help but your eye should be what
you trust the most, if it looks right but the RGB parade is off a little bit its fine.
Also, if you don't nail it on the first try its fine, there is a lot of push and pull,
a little bit here a little bit there and back to it.
Here looks like I found the right setting, it looks good.
Now, we can put the color back into it.
Go back to saturation and hit the reset or type in 100.
Next we will bring that shot in the same color space overall.
So what I do is look at where the difference is, again comparing the two shots, looking
at the RGB parade, we can see the Canon c-log shot has more red.
Again guys, looking at the reference monitor, of just the shot overall will tell you that,
you don't necessarily need the RGB parade to see that there is a difference, trust your
eye!
If you are not sure what is wrong, experiment and you will get better at it.
Anyhow, in this shot we clearly see the Sony isn't as red as the Canon one.
So what I do is add temperature first see where it brings the image overall.
If you are not sure which way to go…
Right or pluses are Warm tones and Left or minuses are Cold tones.
Red is warm.
Blue is cold.
So let's start adding some and see where it brings you.
Again validating with the reference monitor and rgb parade.
We can see we are still missing a bit.
I am using the red cup and the floor as reference in this instance.
So we need some more.
Sometimes what I do is to go to an extreme and pull it back.
Again, push and pull, it's the constant process here.
And bouncing between the 2 shots, we are getting closer.
Now we see another problem, The red cups are way off!
We can see the Sony s-log red cups are more toward the red/purple side while the Canon
c-log cups have more shades of yellow and green.
And again, if you can't see that right away, don't worry it comes with time.
So next we will go down to HSL Secondary, this is meant to target a specific color.
So select the color picker and select the color you want to target, here we said the
red was way off so that's what we will select.
And the program will give you a good base to start with.
What I usually, is enable show mask, that way I am seeing exactly what im selecting.
And see, in this case, we can see we are missing so much tones that we need to play with the
sliders.
So the sliders, all have a specific purpose, the top one, H is for Hue, S is saturation
and L is for lightness.
You can just start playing around until you have a good selection of your color.
And again guys, this will require a lot of finegaling and push and pull until you are
happy with your selection.
Then I often put a little blur in there and a little denoise, it help blending the colors,
don't over do it though otherwise it will create some weird color halo.
Once you have your selection then you can start playing with that color and that color
alone.
Isolated like this, we can clearly see how different they are!
And what I was telling you earlier, one red is mostly purple and the other lean toward
the green.
If you look at the color wheel, the 2 colors on each side of red are purple and green.
So first we will move the needle toward green and see what that does.
Remember push and pull, at first I introduced too much green, but that's ok, just pulling
back toward orange.
And there you go, we found a happy medium, the color is getting closer and closer.
Guys, let's see where we started and where we are at.
Before… and… now.
I am very happy with those colors but something is missing… saturation.
The Canon C-log is more saturated than Sony S-log so we need to reintroduce Saturation.
There you go, much better.
You remember what I told you this whole time?
Push and pull, reintroducing saturation changed the overall tone, so I will go and pull back
the temperature.
There you go, I am a little bit more happy with this.
We could spend a little bit more time on it but for today this is good enough.
And this is what the end product would be
Alright, i hope you enjoyed the video and you learned from it.
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