Piano Video - Feedback on Color Grading and Matching Wanted
So my video isn't done uploading, but I have to go to work... so you can find it here in about 30 minutes
http://youtu.be/8NbbDtVKjjU
It's just a 30 second clip with 2 different angles cut in. I'm mainly looking for responses on my color grading and matching between shots. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
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Unfortunately you set the video to private. You want unlisted if you want only those with the link to see it, or public.
Oops! Unlisted was what I was going for, but I thought Private was going to do the job. Fixed!
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Hard to say without the original look.
But it looks natural.
Suggestion: I'd play a bit with the Levels. I'd push the blacks a bit, lower the highlights and it would probably looks less "videoish". But that's me.
Try to match the skin color of the face and the hands. Everything else looks good.
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The biggest difference I notice is the lighting inside of the piano looks very good and doesn't look as if it's done in the same setting as the lighting on the pianist.
If you could get the pianist to look as good as the inside of the piano then that's the way I'd want to see it go.
Yeah, one reason the lighting inside the piano looks so different is because there is a cover on the piano so, even though it was propped up, it changes the lighting dynamic inside the piano completely. Unfortunately, I think it will be difficult, if not impossible, to make my wide angle footage look as good in quality as the close angles. The close angles were shot with a Canon Digital Rebel T3i, which handled the lowish light dynamics much better than my HV20. I do agree, though, that the skin tone on the top-down shot is much redder than the other shots. I'll try to adjust that.
This is my first time playing with the color correct attributes in FCPX, but I have to say I've already gotten better results with it than with the previous versions of Final Cut. Thanks for the tips, guys!
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Well, the final video is up:
http://youtu.be/aYonngjDjpc
What do you guys think?
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