Upscale first, then colorize? OR Colorize first, then upscale?

More of a discussion, so I unmarked it as an actual question.

Kevin

interesting and good feedback all around. I sometimes work with stuff that is a bit flat even when in the right color space ( like prores or S log )  and as soon as I put clips on the timeline I quickly do a first grade ( which is just luminance values real fast, using scopes and eyeball ). Since I do that in a 'color' portion of program I consider it a part of color correction. Even though I haven't done a single thing to change any colors at this point.

So, a window that's blown out, that might make me think it would be nice to just crop that out by upscaling that portion of frame, might look nice after that initial grade of luminance values. Then there's the simple apply grade or presets or whatever that can be used by selecting ALL clips on timeline and applying that stuff.. to speed things up.

I don't upscale stuff anyway, honestly. I might put 4k in a 1080p timeline, so I CAN zoom in, but I'm not upscaling... because the 4k in the 1080p is actually DOWNSCALED.

hehe.. gets confusing.

But whatever works for you is cool !  scale away to your heart's content.. things in PPRO are so superior now with color stuff that you can probably crop and scale up from 1080 to 4k and get a beautiful product !

My habit is to do all the editing before any color work.  Upscaling would be part of editing.

Upscale. Always.

That way you'll only be seeing the parts that are being used, won't waste time on or be influenced by the excluded material.

Neil

in the film biz the crew is usually given food at their call time... let's say it's 5am, so the caterer would be serving breakfast burritos, oatmeal, scrambled eggs, etc.  There's always eggs of some sort.

However, for later call times, like say 1pm, or 5pm, there would be stuff like hamburgers, chicken, breakfast burritos, and so on.

No matter what, there is always chicken of some sort. for later calls.

This fact of life prompted one funny crew member to make a few jokes.

Q: what came first, the chicken or the Egg ?

A: depends on your call time

Q: why did the chicken cross the road ?

A: company move

( a company move is when you move from one location to another ).

Anyway, color first then upscale