Thanks for the advice ChainsawAsh you're right I am using Color although I am quite happy to admit I am a Color noob as well as a Colour Correction noob so any help or advice is greatly appreciated! :)ChainsawAsh said:
I haven't been following too closely, but I'm surprised that you used the Master Lift and Master Gain controls last. Those are always the very first things I touch when I do color work. Adjust lift so the blacks are at or very close to 0 (but not below), then adjust gain so the whites are at or very close to 100 (but not over). Of course, if nothing's pure black or white in the particular shot, I don't go all the way to 0 or 100.
And I wouldn't do the desaturating-the-bottom-portion-of-the-luma-scale thing you were talking about. Instead, I'd use the far left color wheel (shadows) to get rid of the color cast in the dark areas. It'll yield better results.
You're using Color, yes? Are you using just the Primary In room, or are you using some Secondaries as well?
The current colour grade is using the Primary In room as well as 3 Secondaries. I've used the Primary In room to correct the white balance using the Red,Green,Blue curves, to improve the contrast using the luma curve, to adjust the black white levels as previously mentioned and to boost the saturation. In the Secondaries room, No 1 is set up to get rid of the green edge on the left hand side using an HSL key & a Vignette to limit it to the left hand 1/4 of the picture, while also reducing the red saturation using the sat curve and to do a slight hue adjustment using the hue curve. No 2 is set up using an HSL key to make Obi-Wan's cloak and under-shirt slightly darker and slightly greenier. While No 3 is set up using an HSL key to do the de-saturating of the blacks I spoke about before.
For the Binary Sunset scenes there are two additional secondaries one, which uses an HSL key to change the sky from blue to pink, and the other to increase the gamma making the scene brighter.