CG and color correction

[Santiago Benet]

I Just finished shooting a short film with Red MX using raw view at the time of shooting . And its going to have a lot of CG. I have a doubt about the color correction, should we do the color correction before integrating the CG or should we do it after everything is done or should we do a pre color correction an then do a last one when everything is done? Thanks a lot for your time and responses!

[John Sprung]

It depends a lot on the content of your CG material. Talk to your CG vendor about it, and do it the way they want.

 

 

 

-- J.S.

[Robert Costello]

If there are going to be dramatic expressive alterations to the shot footage-

you will likely be using the footage as an

environment multiplier in the render,so it might be good to

set up the colors in the footage how you like them-

then adjust the lights and materials in the 3d program to match the footage--

 

then after you composite you will probably make more tweaks if needed---

 

but...it might also be a good idea to keep the rendered animations

as color neutral(not a real term) as possible so that they have

more flexibility if you are unsatisfied with how you colored the

footage--you might be able to stretch your options in post without

having to re-render because you made all your lights hot pink and purple

for example---

so matching the render to the original uncorrected footage might be

better--

 

keep doing tests of 1 frame for different options/workflows--

[Santiago Benet]

Thanks for your thoughts and time!