What's with all the weirdo colors in Premiere???

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What's with all the weirdo colors in Premiere???

Postby Bushido Philosopher » Mon Jul 29, 2002 8:28 pm

Hi there guys. I just finished ripping and saving the projects for the Vandread series, and I'm noticing some VERY weird stuff in the Monitor window. It looks like the colors are all messed up or something. :?

Let's use the opening title as an example. When the paxis effect comes in it looks like a crazy static-like -IR (infrared) effect or something...

anyone know how to remedy this problem?

(note that i'm following the "ErMaC guide" and i have done it that way many times before. very useful guide if i say so myself. :))
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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Tue Jul 30, 2002 2:31 am

It's a known problem with this method that highly saturated colours mess up sometimes.

The way I compensate for it is by using the avisynth levels filter and either change the gamma to 1.1 or do:

Levels(0,1,255,6,255)

increase the number 6 until the mad colours have gone.


Admitedly this will be changing the colours of your footage slightly but it will solve the problem.
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Postby Bushido Philosopher » Tue Jul 30, 2002 11:53 am

Hey I think I'm on to something...

Under Video>Image Control I found a little effect called Color Offset.

I was playing around with it and when I set the thing to 100% the whole problem went away. Now I'm sure that this may not be a solution for everyone but for the Vandread footage that I was working with the whole thing seemed to magically go away.

Under the effect's setup window there are options for red, green and blue. Select the color of the part that is giving you trouble. For instance, in Vandread the paxis looks like some weird red color. Use the Red part of it to remove it.

Try it. It may work for you. I've only tried it on Vandread so far so I can't say that it WILL work.
(Note that you must preview it to see it work on the whole clip.)
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Postby klinky » Tue Jul 30, 2002 12:08 pm

The only question would be which gives you the best speed?

The AviSynth adjustment or the Premiere effect.... :shock: - so confusing :p


Iam lucky to have not had any issues with AVISynth....so far....


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Postby mckeed » Tue Jul 30, 2002 2:49 pm

i am having a similar problem with my dual opening...hmmm...i'll have to try that and see if it clears it up.
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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Tue Jul 30, 2002 4:37 pm

Ko Oh Yoku wrote:Hey I think I'm on to something...

Under Video>Image Control I found a little effect called Color Offset.


Umm... color offset is an effect designed to... well, be an effect. It separates the red green and blue channels and moves them apart. You do not want to be doing this to your video. Plus, it's a laggy effect, you'd be better off just editing you avs script than applying that effect to every clip on your timeline.

I actually used it as an effect in Shameless Rock Video at one point. It's an effect, designed to muck up your footage - using it on your amv will not improve quality :)
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