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Is there a saturation mismatch? Not on the vectorscope… but based on your EYES?.Is there a brightness mismatch on some elements of the image? Not based on scopes… but based on your EYES? If so, what correction will fix it?.Is it working? If not, what does your gut tell you? Here are the questions to ask yourself (in about the order to ask): If you want to get good at Shot Matching, at some point in the Shot Matching process you need to put the scopes away, make believe you’ve got fresh eyes and just LOOK at the shots you’re matching. The right side of our brain is the creative side of our noggins. The human visual system aggressively reinterprets our retinal data to help it conform with a lifetime of experience.įor example: Have you ever seen an image from Mars that looks like a human face? You tell me: A sign of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? Or a sign that our visual systems are hard-wired to pattern match… allowing us to see things that just aren’t there? If our eyes are willing to see a face in a pattern of lumpy dust 140 million miles away… what do you think this means for shot matching? Shot matching requires a hefty dose of Right Brain activity Humans don’t merely process retinal data the way a camera processes photons or a vectorscope displays a pixel scatter. But the human visual system is more than a pattern-matching algorithm. It removes judgment from the process and is a pure pattern matching activity. Using scopes to match shots? That’s a very analytical approach to color correction. Next, recognize (and respect) that using scopes is a very Left Brain activity Why? Because we’ve only used one side of our brain for what is a 2-side activity. Sometimes you’ll need to isolate a color or two and swing them around to complete the match.Īnd after doing all that? The shots may not match yet. Work on hue to get the color balance right.Move on to Saturation and use the Vectorscope to match ‘colorfulness’.Start with the Luma Waveform and match brightness levels, starting with highlights/shadows, move to midtones, then re-tweak as necessary.
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In this Insight notice my workflow when starting to shot match: But finishing it? That’s a judgment call. Yes, I can (and will) give you rules on how to start your shot matching process. First, we need to understand that shot matching is a very ‘whole brain’ activityĪnd that means while I can give you logical rules, in the end, it’s also a creative judgment as to when two shots actually match each other.
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Why we need to respect and build upon the Left / Right brain dichotomyĪnd as we go through this, I’ll share a general workflow pattern.
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