ABSTRACT
Good exposure and color begins in the shooting. It’s always easier and better if people do it correctly from the beginning rather than trying to fix it in postproduction. That means lighting the scene well, exposing it correctly, setting white balance correctly, and not leaving the camera’s auto exposure and white balance to do the guessing. If people’re producing work for output on a television set, it is essential that people view their color correction work on a properly set-up production monitor, not the computer monitor. The color and luminance values on television sets are very different from computer monitors. The color correction tools are professional-strength tools, so use them carefully. Unlike most filters, both Color Corrector and the Chroma Keyer in the Key sub-menu have two panels in the Viewer. Adding another tool in the mix here may be helpful. The Matte Choker is useful, but it isn’t in the Key package.
