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Inspiring
September 26, 2017
Question

Yi 4K red and orange the same.

  • September 26, 2017
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Well almost the same.The pickup in the first half of this video is VERY red and the pickup in the second half is VERY orange,but as you can see they're almost the same colour.I don't remember them being like this before (but can't find any earlier examples).As you can see all other colours show near as [ ] perfectly.

Is there an easy way to get reds to be red again and oranges to be orange again as I don't know the correct way to do it with something like Adobe Premiere Pro?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUi67y73Un0

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    Legend
    September 27, 2017

    They look very different colors to me.

    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    September 26, 2017

    What are the two comparisons from? In detail, please ... as without a lot more information, there's no way to do anything but wild guessing.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
    ImagewerxAuthor
    Inspiring
    September 26, 2017

    The first one is not the same pickup in the video but is the same shade of red.The second one is the same orange pickup in the video and is the only still photo I have of it,but in real life it's a deeper orange than that.

    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    September 27, 2017

    Ok, I see now.

    Remember, imaging is always a garbage-in, garbage out process. So you have to work the entire chain of things.

    1. First, you need a consistent way to get the most accurate color you can from the camera at the time of capturing the imagery. Whether that's an Expodisc over the lens for setting white balance, a Xrite Passport Color checker, or just a gray card ...
    2. Your monitor for your computer should be running the sRGB color space profile, and if at all possible, calibrated with an external puck+software system like say the ColorMunki, i1 or Spyder units ...
    3. Learn to use the Lumetri panel, especially the scopes (and the Vectorscope shows your hues most delineated), to both read and set your color corrections.

    Now ... understand that even when you get good at this, different video players and browsers on different computer monitors will all show things a bit to a lot different. And get to work.

    Oh ... QuickTime player has some issues, PotPlayer & VLC are better among the free "simple" video players. YouTube does one conversion when uploading your media, which may or may not get the proper color and gamma for you, which will show correct if they do a re-encode. If they don't, go into YouTube's "editing" mode for your channel, select a vid, select retouch, save without doing anything ... and within a few hours they will re-encode.

    Neil

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    Everyone's mileage always varies ...