Ray Roman was a police officer for fifteen years and often wondered if there was something else out there that he could “build a passion for,” much like he did for his police work. One day he decided that he was going to simply transfer some old family video footage of his kids to DVD. He made a visit to a local electronics retail store to purchase an inexpensive transfer mechanism so that he could begin the conversion process. This little piece of equipment also came with a limited version of an editing software program. He imported his family video into the program and thought that what he was creating looked like a movie.
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Color Fixer Plus, part of NewBlue Video Essentials, provides an easy way to correct color balance. Because it also adjusts saturation, brightness, and film gamma, it’s a great tool to quickly get the look you want in one pass. In this edition of Tips & Techniques, Todor Fay shows you how to use this essential plugin to polish your video footage in seconds.
Alastair Brown
Alastair Brown hails from Scotland in the UK and specializes in Wedding and Promotional Videos.
An early adopter of both filming and editing in HDV, Alastair has been a long-term Sony Vegas user. Through using Sony Vegas, Alastair became aware of NewBlueFX and says,
I became a fan of their ease of use, fast implementation, speed of rendering and intuitive controls.
Preparing raw footage so that it’s properly balanced and good-looking is typically a lot of work and requires multiple plug-ins and calibrating at minimum a dozen controls. If only there were a one pass tool that could quickly balance the color, adjust the light levels, tweak the color saturation and apply film gamma so the image really “popped”…
Enter Color Fixer Plus, part of NewBlue Video Essentials. With Color Fixer Plus, you can quickly balance the color then enhance the picture for the perfect look. And best of all, Color Fixer Plus is fast. Here’s how to get that perfect look:
Let’s start with a video that was shot outdoors. It’s a beautiful take, but it lacks warmth (too blue) and is a bit flat.
