Matching color temperatures

[poisondeathray]

There is a slice tool available as a 3rd party plugin by Synthetic Apeture (same people that make Color Finesse) for AE .
http://www.synthetic-ap.com/products/tg/

diprotic - another option : you could use "gradation curves" in vdub (which is basically the same thing as RGB curves in NLE's), and the external encoder feature to export with ffmpeg. You could use smrpix's example above as a starting point , or you can even combine the approaches. I find better control and fine tuning with GUI based color correction/grading than avisynth

But there are a few issues - vdub will convert to RGB using Rec601 ,not 709 , also superdarks/brights will be clipped. If you use a full range matrix (e.g. with avisynth) first, and then readjust the black / white point with levels/curves then you won't clip the data

[diprotic]

I ran the wrong sources through ffmpeg last night, so now I'm doing it again. So far colourlike() looks like a good improvement with a reasonable return on investment of energy. Fine-tuning the settings is going to take a lot longer for minimal gain. I'll post samples when done.

[budwzr]

There is a slice tool available as a 3rd party plugin by Synthetic Apeture (same people that make Color Finesse) for AE .

Hmmph... everything seems to be for AE. I wonder if BorisCC has that, or similar? Thonks anyway

[diprotic]

I ran with colourlike(), the product of which was slightly oversaturated. iMovie has a decent saturation slider, so I backed it off a bit and came up with this.

Worth noting: if you're going to modify source material for an existing iMovie project, it must be the same format and include the same audio channels (even if you're not using the audio in the project)

Not perfect but given how impromptu this whole project is, I'll call it a major win.

Thanks everyone!

[jagabo]

Not perfect but given how impromptu this whole project is, I'll call it a major win.

I thought that looked pretty good.

[Khaver]

Looks like you matched the the colors well. Only thing that stands out to me is the camera shooting from the right produced sharper video. Maybe adding a slight blur to that footage would help them match up even more.

[diprotic]

Looks like you matched the the colors well. Only thing that stands out to me is the camera shooting from the right produced sharper video. Maybe adding a slight blur to that footage would help them match up even more.

You are correct. The right camera actually shot at 720p60 while the left camera shot at 480p (yes, it was that impromptu, using a Kodak Zi10 and Gen1 Flip cam respectively). iMovie scaled the left cam up to 720p, which is why it looks blurry.

If I had some more time and inclination, I'm sure I could scale the right cam down and crop left to appropriate AR, but iMovie will still rescale the output (its export options are not flexible). Also, I'm paranoid that iMovie wouldn't work well with the changes and I'd have to recut the whole sequence, which I certainly don't want to do.

Since I'm producing a DVD anyway, seems like a lot of work for minimal gain.

Thanks for the input!

[budwzr]

Pretty good. Those little cameras are good for funerals too. I did a couple funerals with Flip and Kodak.

[diprotic]

Pretty good. Those little cameras are good for funerals too. I did a couple funerals with Flip and Kodak.

I was just the audio guy for the wedding, then at the last minute someone wondered if I could video as well. I put the left cam on a ghetto-rigged tripod and my wife held the right cam.

Totally satisfied with the outcome given they didn't expect anything at all.

[budwzr]

Are you gonna try to bling it up a little? There's an "Editing" forum here too. You can do some basic lighting effects with simple gradients. Think of a gradient as a post production light. Hahaha. And it takes the mind off any imperfections. I think VirtDub can do that kind of stuff too. You can script it.