Going native: Coloring natively in premiere instead of exporting

[Sabot Fighter]

Hey, fellow filmmakers.

Back in March, I made a blog post detailing my efforts as I exported a locked picture from Premiere Pro to After Effects for scene-to-scene color correction.

You can check it here.

As my production efforts remain hampered by the availability suitable outdoor locations, I decided to remaster an early TSF episode for content and color.

The HV40 takes incredible pictures. Plug it into an HDTV and it'll blow your mind. But my weak-ass, 2004 era PC, with a whopping 2 gigs of RAM, struggles to resolve HD footage. Hell, my shit won't allow me to view in real time! Sometimes I have to render pieces to see if the edit is correct, then continue to work it.

With this episode, I learned to love my vector scope. I was able to use Premiere's tools to approximate what I would've done in After Effects, had I exported. Plus, I held on to my transitions without having to deal with running two RAM sucking applications at once. A win-win, in my book! It's not perfect, but I'm fairly pleased with the results.

Here they are:

[Krane]

Now that you have an instrument rating, does that mean you won't be update to a more robust editor?

[Sabot Fighter]

Not sure I understand.

"Instrument rating"?

I'd love to afford a new computer with CS6. Also multiple 5DMkIIIs with glass. And a crew. Catering. Locations... And a distribution deal!

But we can't have it all, can we? (now, I'm sad)

One day, man. One day... Hell, one day I'll just hire an editor with his own system and not have to worry about it!

[Krane]

Not sure I understand.

"Instrument rating"?

A joke. An aeronautical reference to the ability to navigate by instrument rather than visually. As with the vector scope, a technique very hard to learn and difficult to do.

I haven't viewed you video yet.

I'd love to afford a new computer with CS6. Also multiple 5DMkIIIs with glass. And a crew. Catering. Locations... And a distribution deal!

But we can't have it all, can we? (now, I'm sad)

One day, man. One day... Hell, one day I'll just hire an editor with his own system and not have to worry about it!

As do I.

[drapeama]

As with the vector scope, a technique very hard to learn and difficult to do.

I guess I should learn that way. So far, I've been fine with 2x monitor windows in AE. Then I was color correcting it visually.

[Krane]

You know that old saying abut skinning a cat? Color correction is an art and a science you could make a career of. So far, I have only achieved the basics.