Applying colour filter to avi?

[psteel]

Hi,

I have some avi files that a friend produced with a digital camera underwater. As he did not have a filter on the camera, the video is all blue. When I video with my camcorder I use a filter (red) which removes the blue tint and makes the video 'more lifelike'.

Is there anyway to apply a filter to an avi file, much the same as you can do with a jpeg?

TIA

[guns1inger]

Most editing programs offer colour correction tools - Premiere and Vegas are pretty strong in this area. VirtualDub also has filters for altering and tuning colours. My preference would be to use Vegas' primary and secondary colour correction tools

[psteel]

Guns1inger,

Thanks for the reply

I only have Studio 7 and Ulead 6SE at my disposal.

I was hoping that there was something that would work similiar to converting from PAL to NTSC etc.

[lechtin]

If you have the videostudio 6, you should have simple color correction filters available. They are in the same area as the brightness/contrast and other special effects filters. I haven't looked lately, but you should be able to at least change the hue of a movie. Not as powerful as color correction in Vegas, but it's something. If you don't have those filters, make sure you download the additional components (free) from Ulead at http://www.ulead.com/vs/esd6.htm

[psteel]

Will check it out.

Thank you.

[jknutson2]

Most editing programs offer colour correction tools - Premiere and Vegas are pretty strong in this area. VirtualDub also has filters for altering and tuning colours. My preference would be to use Vegas' primary and secondary colour correction tools

I have the same problem (video shot from Submarine tour that's all blue). I've tried applying both the Color Balance Effect and Color Corrector Effect in Premiere Pro, but have had little success in obtaining a better looking picture.

For RGB Color Balance, I used the RGB Parade waveform display and ran up the RGB value to make the waveform come close to the levels of the blue/green waveforms, but it spread the wave and made the color look funny. I also tried subtracting blue/green, but that lost brightness and contrast and I had trouble correcting that. I also tried mixing add/subtract. Nothing really seemed to work right.

For the Color Corrector, I tried walking through some of the settings like finding the lightest and darkest colors for "white balance", but it seemed like that caused the colors of the coral to "shred" (discontiguous colors in the waveforms).

Can someone help step a neophyte with little understanding of the color space through the setting changes I should make?

Thanks,
Jim