Alexandros Angelopoulos Apostolos Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 This is another thing that happens sometimes, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Dunn Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 What sometimes happens? A car driving through a square at sunset? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Berger Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 (edited) What sometimes happens? A car driving through a square at sunset? The car is composited into the scene. The ground reflections also look odd. He tagged "Joe Gawler" who was a colorist for the DI of "To Rome with Love". It's a puzzle. Edited December 18, 2017 by Samuel Berger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandros Angelopoulos Apostolos Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 Are the two of you seeing two distinct differently coloured areas on the pavement? :ph34r: I thought it was an error in the colour-correction process, but now that I see compositing mentioned (never would’ve seen that the car was composited, but now that you mention it, it is so obvious), perhaps it was that – compositing, not colour correction. And the title of the thread is a reference to Phil’s thread: not only does soft focus happen, something like this above happens, too. I hope I explained it. :D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Dunn Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 (edited) >I hope I explained it. :D You didn't. You assumed your audience knew what a power window was and you could have been referring to any one of half a dozen things.. And whoever left the red arrow, I'm sorry that mild obtuseness upsets you so much. Edited December 18, 2017 by Mark Dunn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tyler Purcell Posted December 18, 2017 Premium Member Share Posted December 18, 2017 I don't think the car is composited, I think the ground has been worked on heavily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted December 18, 2017 Premium Member Share Posted December 18, 2017 There's a big circle bottom right that's much warmer and more golden. I don't see any evidence of compositing at a casual glance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tyler Purcell Posted December 18, 2017 Premium Member Share Posted December 18, 2017 My guess is, they wanted that warmth on the ground that didn't exist. So they simply cut it out and made it warm, which makes it stick out a tiny bit. It's nothing egregious. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Greene Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 I think this Chrysler comes with power windows as standard equipment... :) Yes, the street looks pretty strange with this grade! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Brereton Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 It would help to know where this still came from. Is it a frame grab from a movie or commercial, or a still found on the internet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Berger Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 (edited) It would help to know where this still came from. Is it a frame grab from a movie or commercial, or a still found on the internet? "To Rome With Love" is my guess. The movie that shows that Woody Allen thinks that Italy is stuck in 1957. Edited December 19, 2017 by Samuel Berger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Brereton Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 "To Rome With Love" is my guess. The movie that shows that Woody Allen thinks that Italy is stuck in 1957. Ok, so did it come from the movie itself, or from promotional material? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Berger Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 (edited) Ok, so did it come from the movie itself, or from promotional material? Funny you should ask, I just asked the same thing about that out-of-focus Luke thing. I don't know where the shot came from, but he used "To Rome with Love" as a tag for the post. Edited December 19, 2017 by Samuel Berger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landon D. Parks Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 From someone who knows his way around compositing, the car certainly doesn't look composited to me. As for the power window issue, I believe I see what you mean - the rather large oval shape on the right of the frame... I'd question the validity of this image, as that is a pretty glaring error that certainly wouldn't have made it past the eyes of any half-assed colorist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandros Angelopoulos Apostolos Posted December 19, 2017 Author Share Posted December 19, 2017 Landon, do you really think I would fabricate this? The screen capture comes from the film To Rome With Love. It happens just before 00:12:00 time stamp. How this got into the end version of the film I do not know. Now that you say it, perhaps it doesn’t look composited, it just looks weird because of color correction applied that makes it somehow stand out and appear almost as glued onto the scene digitally or otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandros Angelopoulos Apostolos Posted December 19, 2017 Author Share Posted December 19, 2017 And P. S. it’s not a blip – you can see the error lingering even when the actress walks into the frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Brereton Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 If it's there in the finished film, or at least, this version of the finished film, then it's clearly an error on the part of the colorist, which should have caught and corrected by either the colorist or the QC process. Sometimes things slip through. There was a SyFy channel movie I saw earlier this year where one of the stock footage shots still had the library's watermark on it. Embarrassing, but it happens. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandros Angelopoulos Apostolos Posted December 19, 2017 Author Share Posted December 19, 2017 Yeah, it happens. I wasn’t trying to be mean when I started this; I just never encountered such a thing and thought it might be interesting. I actually found it long ago and the Star Wars soft-focus thread reminded me of the error. Just to clarify that when I wrote about something being composited and glued onto in the post above I was of course referring to the car. :) Its outer edges give the impression that something happened here, probably as a result of colour correction. Perhaps someone else has a Blu-ray of the film and could check if his/her version of it has the same error. :) LOL @ the SyFy channel watermark leftover. Funny. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landon D. Parks Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Don't get me wrong, I wasn't trying to say you tampered with it... If its that way in the final film, then as Stuart has said - it's an error on the part of the colorist. Unless it was intentionally done, but I can't see why it would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tyler Purcell Posted December 19, 2017 Premium Member Share Posted December 19, 2017 To be honest, I don't see anything egregious in the still frame posted. I assume this shot was suppose to be set at dusk and they wanted that warm light, but couldn't find a place to introduce it, so they cleverly used the reflection off the ground. I think it works fine and doesn't disrupt the shot very much at all. There are far more egregious things in movies, from the entire fight sequence from Titanic where they forgot to comp out the blue screen in the background windows, to crew members and even other cameras in scenes. Before it was easy to make comp's, you'd see all sorts of mistakes, but today it's so easy to make corrections, when you see issues, it seems more pronounced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Brereton Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 To be honest, I don't see anything egregious in the still frame posted. I assume this shot was suppose to be set at dusk and they wanted that warm light, but couldn't find a place to introduce it, so they cleverly used the reflection off the ground. I think it works fine and doesn't disrupt the shot very much at all. It's not the color that's the problem, it's the hard edge on the power window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Berger Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 (edited) It's not the color that's the problem, it's the hard edge on the power window. So "power window" is officially a thing, now? Edit: Apparently it's been a thing for a while. Edited December 19, 2017 by Samuel Berger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landon D. Parks Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Yep, 'Power Window' is really just slang for a mask, I've only ever heard it referred to as that in Resolve. And yes, the issue is not the color itself - its the glaring hard-edged mask at the right of the frame. It wasn't blended correctly, it looks like. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Brereton Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 So "power window" is officially a thing, now? Edit: Apparently it's been a thing for a while. Power windows have been 'a thing' since the early days of digital intermediates, or about 17 years. Colorists these days tend to refer to them as 'shapes'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Berger Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Power windows have been 'a thing' since the early days of digital intermediates, or about 17 years. Colorists these days tend to refer to them as 'shapes'. Colors and shapes. Sounds like Blue's Clues to me. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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