Hello Youtube, Mikeycal here.
And this is video number 16 in my series on utilizing Blender as a video editor.
Now, in the previous video I showed you how to do Wipe Transitions.
And, in this video, I'm going to show you guys how to do color correction.
How to change the brightness and contrast, how to play around with the hue.
And I'll even talk a little bit about what a Mask is...
And I'll show you the best way to do any kind of color correction, or changing the look
of your video strip.
So, first things first, we have already imported the big buck bunny movie into the sequencer.
And we're going to select our video strip and we're going to go ove to the properties
for that video strip and scroll down.
Now, all of the options to change the brightness and the contrast and the hue and to do color
correction and stuff like that...
They're all available in this section called modifiers.
And, you can just add a strip modifier by selecting the strip that you want to modify,
and going down here and selecting whatever you want.
Now the cool things about modifiers is that you can daisy chain them.
Which means that I can actually select a color balance modifier and I can also do a curve
modifier.
And if I go down, you'll see that it puts the curve modifier below the color balance
modifier.
And, I can do the hue correct.
And they will just all be in sections below each other.
So you can actually use all these things in conjunction with each other.
Now, I have shown you that you can do that by simply clicking on the video strip and
making the corrections, but I would advise that you don't actually make any corrections
to the video strip itself.
But instead, add an adjustment strip that overlays.
And it will allow you to apply the adjustments to multiple strips segments.
And also, it will allow you to turn it off and on if you want to see what the difference
looks like.
So, even though we've added these over here.
I'm going to actually just delete these by hitting the X for each one.
And it deletes all of those.
And now we have no modifiers.
And now what we are going to do instead, is we are going to go to the ADD menu.
And we're going to go up to Effect Strip.
And we're going to select this option: Adjustment Layer.
Now, it made this little strip right here and as usual, let's zoom in on it by hitting
our shift and B button to do the box zoom.
And let's zoom in.
And let's grab this and we'll just pull it out so it's long enough so we can deal with
it better.
Now let's hit the home button to zoom back out.
Ok, So, basically, it looks like it's doing nothing.
That's because it has been set to do absolutely nothing.
It's just transparent.
But, we're going to select this adjustment layer, and we're going to go over to the properties
for the adjustment layer, on the right.
And we have those modifiers, like we had before when we selected the properties for the video
strip.
And we're going to just apply a color balance modifier.
And let's scroll down here.
And, let's change the lift.
See how it effects the video strip.
And the Gamma.
Oohh look at that.
And let's change the gain.
And we can also play around with the lightness and darkness of each of these options.
And we can also...
We can delete that... and we can also do a curve adjustment.
And you can see how that effects things.
And, we can do a hue correct.
Now this one I'm not really sure how to really get right.
Doesn't really seem to effect things unless really start messing around with the curve.
there we go.
And we can do a bright and contrast change.
We can just lift the brightness.
And you'll notice that when I actually pull it away from this adjustment strip or place
it, it doesn't actually show the brightness change.
It just shows it where the frames are being shared.
So I'll turn this brightness way up so you can really see it.
Change Frames.
Let's actually just change the contrast too.
It will be easier to tell.
That's an extreme change.
Um...
And we can just delete that...
So the cool thing is that if I wanted to do this directly to the strip itself.
Make those adjustments.
The problem is that once I started to cut this up into pieces, or if I had different
strips.
I would actually have to set the adjustments to each video strip independently.
By using the adjustment layer, it will just apply it to whatever strips are below.
So, It's a really easy way to just apply the same exact settings across multiple strip
segments.
So, that's pretty much how you do the color adjustments.
It's the best way to do it using the adjustment layer.
I didn't talk about the mask option.
I'm going to talk about this in a future video.
Basically, the advantage of using a mask is that you can designate an area in the video
that you want to apply the color correction to.
Or the brightness or the contrast correction to.
So by actually creating a mask layer, we can actually just say, select this guys face right
here, and make his face green.
And it will just make his face green.
But it's a little too complicated for me to talk about right now.
But we'll talk about it in its own video.
So I'll see you guys in the next video.