Grade School: Diving into Color Separation
This week's live is covering questions around color separation and how to hit that sweet spot in resolve.
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0:06 Introduction
12:20 Is there any case where color separation is not advised?
25:26 Besides creating a more pleasing image, what is the goal of creating color separation?
27:58 Do you have any advice for using Lab color space for color separation?
33:54 I’ve seen people adding saturation and then using offset to push the whole image away from the skintone indicator. Why is that not advised to do?
39:32 Would you advise to desat the shadows and then tint them to avoid noise?
46:38 How does a film like Joker look very desaturated but when you look at the colors in the vectorscope they’re actually very desaturated?
51:58 What’s the best way to get color space separation on a long form project with a lot of setups?
54:34 What do you think about using chromatic adaptation or other methods to achieve color separation instead of linear gain?
58:40 How much do you go about going back and analyzing tools that you don’t use as much?
1:01:05 Conclusion