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Color Correct entire clip + keyframe

I'm struggling to keyframe color correction. My problem is that as I am zooming out I need to lighten the entire frame. The shot starts bright and becomes dark and I'm hoping to use keyframes and color correction to adjust the darkness. How do I do this in FCPX 2.1?

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4), Early 2009, 2x 2.26Ghz Quad Xeon, 32GB RAM

Posted on Jul 30, 2015 9:08 PM

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Posted on Jul 31, 2015 12:07 AM

Mmmm... you'll have to do a few steps.


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At the start of the zooming out and place a marker...

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Move the play head at the end of the zooming out and place a marker...

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Place the playhead between the two markers.... Spilt (blade) the clip at this point...

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Place a color correction node/effect on the second half of the clip... make you color correction...

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Place a dissolve transition at the split...

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Lengthen the dissolve (handles) to the marker.

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Here's something I just made... down and dirty... zooming and changing the color correction.





You should get the idea. To bad FCP doesn't have key framing for collection.

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Jul 31, 2015 12:07 AM in response to bussryder

Mmmm... you'll have to do a few steps.


User uploaded file

At the start of the zooming out and place a marker...

--------------


User uploaded file

Move the play head at the end of the zooming out and place a marker...

-----------------


User uploaded file

Place the playhead between the two markers.... Spilt (blade) the clip at this point...

-----------------


User uploaded file

Place a color correction node/effect on the second half of the clip... make you color correction...

-----------------


User uploaded file

Place a dissolve transition at the split...

-----------------

User uploaded file

Lengthen the dissolve (handles) to the marker.

-----------------


Here's something I just made... down and dirty... zooming and changing the color correction.





You should get the idea. To bad FCP doesn't have key framing for collection.

Jul 31, 2015 7:35 AM in response to David M Brewer

Another (not necessarily better) method would be to:


apply the color corrector and just adjust exposure to the level that you want at the end of the zoom;


apply your zoom;


duplicate your clip as a connected clip directly above the clip:


disable the CC on the connected clip'


keyframe the opacity of the connected clip to give you the desired result.


Russ

Jul 31, 2015 8:05 AM in response to David Bogie Chq-1

David Bogie Chq-1 wrote:


Nice work, Mr Brewer, lot of effort to explain an approach to a common problem.

Hope the OP appreciates it.

That's why people need to learn DaVinci Resolve (it's free, better to download it from the BlackMagic site than to use the one in the App Store).


You can round trip your project from FCP... or just import the single clip into DaVinci Resolve... do the color correction (keyframes and all)... export to a ProRes file... relink the original file (FPX) to the DaVinci Resolve ProRes file... done. I did the same thing the OP wanted in DaVinci and it took all of a few seconds to do.


For the life for the life of me I don't understand why people don't use this app in-conjunction with FCP. Not only is it a powerful color corrector it's has a killer video editor in it too.


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Color Correct entire clip + keyframe

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