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Karl Trapp, Sr.
posted by - Trapp over 2 years ago

  I video a wedding at a church the windows cast a purple haze over everything. I'm editing in Final Cut Pro, but I'm having trouble getting the purple out. The color also gives the video an look old time look.  During the reception outside under a tent with low lights, i'm getting the speckled or tv snow look, with a brown haze over everything. How can I correct this it's very fustrating.

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    Michael Potton
    posted by - Mike over 2 years ago

    Sounds like a few white balance issues which are causing the purple and brown hues. These can be corrected by doubling clicking a clip in the timeline to bring it into the viewer. Then apply a color correction filter from the effects menu. Click on the color corrector tab in the viewer, there is a color wheel called "balance" and next to it on the left is an eye dropper tool, click this then on the canvas click on a part of your video that should be pure white and FCP will auto correct. Im going to make a video tutorial on this real soon, will post the link here when its up. As for the low light situation your just going to have to live with the grain unfortunately. You can play around with the brightness using the whites, mids, blacks sliders in the color correction filter but it wont work miracles unfortunately

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    CHRISTOPHER EDWARDS
    posted by - Christopher over 2 years ago

    Adding to Mike .. also go into the "effects menu" and adjust your "HSV" values in compliance to color correction .. it really helps ...

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    Michael Potton
    posted by - Mike about 1 year ago

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