3 Replies Latest reply: Feb 20, 2014 11:27 AM by ntreuter RSS

    Premiere Pro Color Correcting Help with GoPro Protune Footage

    ntreuter Community Member

      Hey guys,

       

      I'm working on a video I made of my daughter's birth. Most of the footage is from my DSLR and looks fine, but Im' having a helluva time getting my GoPro footage to look even remotely decent. I shot in ProTune thinking I could get more out of it in post (plus, I wanted the 24 fps option). It's a lot of indoor footage and I don't expect miracles but I'm trying to get the best I can out of it.

       

      I start by using fast color corrector to white balance based off hte door trim. That works but it still looks really, really flat and dead. Tried using Contrast, RGB curves, etc. and I can't seem to get any sort of decent image out of it.

       

      Any tips or ideas with where to start? I don't need it perfect, just want it as good as i can get it. Most of my indoor shots look like this for some reason :/

       

      PS, I didn't transcode in Cineform at all. I just dumped the MP4 files right into Premiere Pro.

       

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        • 1. Re: Premiere Pro Color Correcting Help with GoPro Protune Footage
          SAFEHARBOR11 Community Member

          I recently got a GoPro, but the one without ProTune (Silver, white?) so I don't have that color correction experience. However, one benefit of converting to Cineform is to get rid of that fisheye look, it does a great job if you select the checkbox in GoPro Studio. Should be easier to play/edit the transcoded clips then in Premiere also.

           

          Congrats on the baby!

           

          Thanks

           

          Jeff Pulera

          Safe Harbor Computers

          • 2. Re: Premiere Pro Color Correcting Help with GoPro Protune Footage
            R Neil Haugen Community Member

            If you're on PrPro CC, I'd get Speedgrade also and take a run over to it for your correction work ... commonly known as grading. Yea, you can do it in PrPro, but as a noob ... never got the footage I worked "there" as far along as when working in Sg. Might help.

             

            Next ... the scopes here are quite interesting ... first, set your lower-end of the footage to the point where you either go for good "broadcast" (blacks that you WANT black about 16 on a 0-255 scale), then lift the contrast/highs/whatever control until your whites just tip out on top. Next correct for gamma, the overall placement of the mids/upper mids, then start with your color work.

             

            You will probably need to raise in-coming sat up a bit to start making best choices there ... but then I'm also a noob so I'm waiting for the corrections that shooter or Jim will chime in with ... 

             

            Neil

            • 3. Re: Premiere Pro Color Correcting Help with GoPro Protune Footage
              ntreuter Community Member

              Thanks , I'm not on CC, I'm still on CS5.5. I've always used the built-in grading. For some reason this footage in particular is giving me issues. I read something about increasing contrast by duplicating the footage and placing it on a new track and using blend modes, but that's a little more advanced than the work I've done previously with just editing that one clip.