Color correction

[Tryvek]

Originally Posted by deepsepia

You might give it a try. The tools are free, and its a useful skill. That said, this one might not be the place to start.

I did look at "The Seduction of Lyn Carter" and this would be very hard. It looks like it was originally shot on film, then converted to video by a not-very-capable telecine operator. _If_ someone had the original film, and it was in usable condition, you could go back to that and rescan it, and do much better.

But trying to fix a bad video from dodgy film is really hard. Colors are all over the place, and its not a consistent thing.

Thanks for making the effort to help me out. I appreciate your assessment. Although I'm retired (for the past 22 years) my time is not unlimited - spend a lot time in waiting rooms and it might be an "old dog, new tricks" situation.

Years ago I got an SE version of Pinnacle (that came with a scanner I bought) that had a color correction feature. As I recall, it would have you ID an area of the frame that was supposed to be pure white and then measure the "amount of correction" need to turn it white and then apply that amount to all the other pixels in each frame throughout the video. Pretty clever, but too simple an approach for most color problems, particularly this one.

I tried separating the video into segments. Ones that were green tinted and ones that were not. The color correction wasn't too bad, but after all that I couldn't "stitch" the segments back together. Talk about irritating.

I had hoped that by now there were more sophisticated software, like the stuff you see on TV when they enhance a video of a license plate so it can be read.

I think the human eye and brain do some color correction when viewing "The Seduction of Lyn Carter" or it might be that the eye and brain are "focused" on more interesting things in the frame rather than that green tinting.