Color correction is not always simple, and what I wanna show you is one way that I found (on the internet) works very good. If you have a monitor that isn’t calibrated then this method might save your day. All three movies shows the same thing, but with different scenes. I made them as a test.
Do this many times and soon you can do it on the fly and it’s a great way of at least check how your image could look like. And I know I should have sound and say something. I’ll try soon.
Play Part 1 (12.9MB – this one includes how to setup your curves tool correctly)
Play Part 2 (2.5MB – DivX test)
Play Part 3 (4.8MB – tricky indoor scen)
Hold down the shift key when setting numbered markers. You can only set 4. (one black, one white, two grey) Grey marker I set two because grey point is tricky and you might wanna test two spots.
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