I want to do a color correction on a blu ray that I’ve ripped onto my HDD.
what’s the best format to export it to so that i can work on it?
Exporting as raw video would result in one HUGE video file so I doubt that would be workable.
Export as all single frames? Group them in folders scene by scene, shot by shot?
How does one do these things? Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Lasz
What software are you using to edit? Lossless would be one way to go.
But video editing software is often quite compatible with raw 264 video streams and even m2ts straight from the disc (this obviously depends on the video stream and software). It might not be the most efficient, but any decent machine shouldn’t have a problem with an m2ts, and it’s quite convenient and small. If you need to render something in multiple stages, you’ll want to go with lossless.
I’m completely new to this, but I saw that one could use Dr.Dre’s cc tool to create a lut for use in Adobe AE, so I’m probably going to be using that.
In that case, export raw single frames if you plan on generating a LUT to then go back into AE to apply to the larger video segment. If you don’t have a lower end PC, AE can handle the m2ts straight from the blu-ray if it is h264 (as most newer releases and SW are) rather than MPEG2.
So, then you would export your matching frames from both sources for every scene (or every time you need a new LUT), use them with Dre’s tool, and then use the resulting LUT back in AE. Though I’m no expert and someone may correct me.