ASC #40: Garbage Matte for Secondary Color Correction

So you want to change the skin tones in a shot by doing a secondary color correction. You're using the methods outlined in ASC (and of course, they work incredibly well!), but there's that nasty balloon in the shot that has a skin-tone-like color but that you don't want to affect. What you need now, my friend, is a garbage matte. A garbage matte restricts the key to applying only to a specific section of the image. I hear you say: "But can it be done in Media Composer?" I say: "You bet your ass it can be done! And in real-time, too!" So in this show, we'll build a secondary color correction with a garbage matte using the Spectramatte, a Paint Effect and a Matte Key. If this isn't cool, then I don't know cool. Oh. Wait. SHOW NOTES Thanks to Alexander Fell who gave me the tip on this one: Do check out the older tutorial on Secondaries, it uses a Boris Continuum Complete Effect and is generally more friendly towards the not-die-hard-geek: ASC : Secondary Color Correction in Media Composer Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: Follow me on Twitter: Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook:

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ASC #40: Garbage Matte for Secondary Color Correction is an episode from Avid Screencast by Christian Foerster.

This episode is 10:53 long.

This episode was published on Sep 23, 2010.

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