Its been non stop since I got back from india. I completed the performance edit today. This project has been one of compromises. The footage was very bad quality. The phase "you can't polish a turd" comes to mind when thinking about the raw material we had to work with, but, polish a turd is exactly what we had to do! There were two problems with the footage, the first is the camera work that is shaky and uncoordinated. The second problem is the lighting, whilst it may have been appropriate for the performance, from a filming point of view its a nightmare. Shots appear washed out and grainy and in some the mids are blown out. Obviously there isn't much that we can do about shaky camera work other than try to cut around it but we were able to improve the colour using a three way colour corrector in final cut. It is a subtle effect but overall it is an improvement. We were able to bring out skin tones add some depth to the blacks and whiten whites. The overall effect it had on the film is that it looks sharper and more realistic.
Here's a tutorial on using the plug-in.
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