Color correction advise needed

[rjonkers]

I'm trying to correct this Super8 film. Looks like to much blue, but when I correct the Blue, my whites get yellow-ish. Can this filmcolor be corrected on a smarter way?

[redwudz]

Depends on what format you have it in and what program you are using for color correction.

I generally convert my videos to DV using a ADVC-100, then use VirtualDub Mod for color corrections. There are a lot of filters available with VD. I use White Balance for all around corrections or sometimes a RGB filter that lets me adjust the individual color channels. There are also VD filters tailored to film color correction. Do a Google search for 'Virtualdub filters' and you should find a lot of options.

[redwudz]

It should look more like this:


I cheated, though. I used Photoshop, but you should be able to do the same or better with a VD filter.

[junkmalle]

White balance filter in VirtualDubMPEG2:





Gradation Curves could probably do a little better but it's tedious to set up.

[rjonkers]

Great, thanks guys, the custom value whitebalance works perfectly! How did you get those values btw, is it try and error?

[junkmalle]

You should also darken the picture a bit from what I posted.

[dphirschler]

Try the HLS filter (hue/lighghtness/saturation). I got decent results from Hue set between -5 and -10. It's difficult because you get the sky looking right and all the plants look dead, so you get the plants looking right and the sky looks too purple.

I settled with Hue -5 and Sat 29. Then I adjusted levels. I dragged black up to 10.


Darryl