Color Balance
by Doccie
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Aug 22, 2007 at 7:56:01 pm
I'm working on a project where I had to make do with a - very - basic cam recorder. Meaning, that I didn't have proper white balance options. I couldn't manually set the white balance, so I had to make do with the Auto balance.
The video consists of a white piece of paper with a hand sliding across it. However, with the white balance set to Auto, this makes for horrible fluctuations in white balance. What I would like to know is, whether it is possible to select a portion of the screen and mark it as white throughout the sequence?
Re: Color Balance by Dave LaRonde on Aug 22, 2007 at 8:40:53 pm
[Doccie]"What I would like to know is, whether it is possible to select a portion of the screen and mark it as white throughout the sequence?
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No, but you can do it over TIME with one of AE's effects called Keep Color or Preserve Color. I'm rendering right now, so I can't look it up. But you'll find it. It ought to do the trick.
Re: Color Balance by Doccie on Aug 23, 2007 at 4:37:31 pm
Hello Dave, thank you for your reply. I had some trouble doing it your way. I'm rather new to After Effects, however, I did find out about the Color Stabilizer effect that does just what I want :)
For anyone else with this problem, the effect only comes with the Pro version, and there are also a few plugins around, namely Tinderbox DeFlicker (Tinderbox 1) and GBDeFlicker.
