Advanced CC - After & Before frame

[redwave]

hey,
here's little time consuming, my custom CC process, it takes aprox. 6-7 seconds per frame at 3.0 GHZ Pentium 2 GB RAM (a lot, some could say), but what you think about final look?

ps. Footage isn't mine, just took sample frame for test.
josh

before:


after:

[mik]

too much noise, you've altered the blue channel that's why. also it seems you've added some grain in post. lots of aliased edges there from the sharpen filter. anyway that's a rather bad hv20 footage, don't know what setting he used but that's bad, has a phone camera feeling.

7s on 3ghz... it seems too much for that difference. what software?

[redwave]

hey mik,
thanks for feedback. Yeah that's what I thought - isn't PERFECT look rather experimental.
Noise is added. More less, if you watch closely all 95% blockbuster movies always look "too much blue". I don't know if that's style or natural processes of real film etc.
It's Photoshop CS all the way.
cheers

[mik]

no, i said you've altered the blue channel which always has blocking and noise.

[Halsu]

More less, if you watch closely all 95% blockbuster movies always look "too much blue". I don't know if that's style or natural processes of real film etc.

Nope, it's just a trend. Fashion.

The bluish low saturation / high contrast look has it's origins on chemical process though - one gets that look if the film is developed "wrong", skipping bleaching.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach_bypass

This is rarely done nowdays though, the look is just emulated in color correction.