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Reddish/Magenta color blocking removal?

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
January 12, 2018
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I am using a Panasonic GH5 with V-Log L profile and in my videos in the shadows and some other areas, there is reddish/magenta color blocks and I am unsure if there is a way to remove this as it occurs on a lot of my videos. I am using 4K ALl-I 400Mbps 10-bit 4:2:2. I found this video before which has helped remove other chromatic aberrations and color fringing:

However, when I try to remove the reddish/magenta color blocking this way, it just ends up effecting all reds in the video, even ones I don't want changed. Here is an example that shows the issue. I too this video of a gull and as you can see on its chest beside its legs, it has this noticeable issue:

This is an unedited screenshot of the video and edited version with a saturation boost and adding the Panasonic V35_to_Rec709 LUT::

Here is close up of it and you can see the problem is there on the video, its nothing to do with what settings I apply on the video, first is unedited and second is edited:

Here is a short sample clip of the edited video itself so you can see the issue on the video. As I mentioned the settings I added didn't cause the issue, only made it more noticeable. The video is in DNxHR 4K 10-bit 4:2:2 HQX. If you zoom in on the birds chest, you can see the extent of the issue. Link: Dropbox - GH5_Gull1_Sample.mov Download it rather than play it.

Can anyone help?

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Kevin-Monahan

Community Manager

Hi DMMax,

What did you end up doing to solve this issue? Let us know.

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio

Mylenium

Legend

Well, the tutorials is actually pretty amateurish and mostly useless. If you have to use extensive masking to remove CA, then you're doing it wrong. The real trick - as so often - is simply to transpose the channels individually and make the color components converge again. In your case you would use effects like Channel Combiner and Shift Channels to separate all the components, convert them to YCbCr, apply distortion effects like Optics Comepnsation and move the layer by tiny amounts, then apply secondary instances of the afforementioned effects to convert back to RGB and use Add blending mode on your 3 layer duplicates, each representing blue, green and red, respectively, to bring everything back together. Under ideal conditions this doesn't require any additional color corrections at all nor any of the atrocious workflows shown in the tutorial.

Mylenium

DMMaxAuthor

Inspiring

Hi Mylenium,

Thanks, but how do you do what you said? I don't really know much about using After Effects yet and unsure to do what you said.

DMMaxAuthor

Inspiring

Hi DMMax,

Are you monitoring this image in a sequence which matches clip settings? Your video is quite small in comparison to, say, a HD frame size or even SD. The frame size (840 x 160) seems very odd and quite small. I'd start by shooting at a default frame size.

Thanks,
Kevin

Hi,

Sorry for late reply, I have been busy. I am not sure what you mean about the video being small. My videos are UHD 3840x2160 as was the short sample clip I uploaded. I would have uploaded an unedited video to show this issue properly, but the file sizes are too large.

I was playing around with Lumetri colors and I found I could reduce the issue (its still there but a little less noticeable), if I set the Saturation to 300 to get the colors looking fine, then the vibrance to -20 it helped to reduce the strength of the blocking. I think there may be an issue with reds/pinks/megentas being oversaturated as they tend to be stronger than other colors in my V-Log L videos, but as yet, I haven't been able to solve the issue, except fix the white balance which I mentioned in my previous reply.

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