Color correction

What is color correction for video?

To put it simply — it is an opportunity to set the desired tone of the image along the way to correct flaws and errors.

Shooting often takes place in different lighting conditions or using multiple cameras that interpret color and contrast a little differently. The correction process is one of the last stages of post-production, but not the last in importance. During the toning of the picture and the imposition of visual effects, the video gets its unique style, which subtly emphasizes everything that the author seeks to focus the viewer's attention. Moreover, color correction in the film has its characteristics, because it is the color decisions will depend on the final result, and hence the success of the picture.

What is color correction for?

Color has a strong emotional impact on the viewer. Its perception depends on the palette of the frame. Technically, the correction process begins before shooting. And the accent color schemes are selected and developed by the director and cameraman in collaboration with the art department.

But it often happens that there is no way to achieve any artistic decisions during the shooting. In such cases, this work is placed on the shoulders of a color specialist, for example, transforming an evening into a full night or turning a bright green spring garden into a colorful golden autumn.

In this way, the video series reaches a new color level, because it is possible to eliminate the vagueness of main scenes, which reveal the plot as much as possible, and everything secondary and background is smoothed and processed so that it does not draw attention to itself.

When is color correction needed?

When is color correction needed? Whenever you want to get not just a video, but a whole harmonious work of art with immersion in the plot and the effect of presence.

Our professional color corrector in Kyiv can offer you the following types of correction: basic, artistic, and comprehensive service, which includes art correction and retouching. Artistic correction includes grading. Grading in a video clip (or just toning) is a repainting of colors to emphasize certain moments, shifting accents, set priorities. To change day for night, spring for autumn, to repaint it is possible all, one restriction — your imagination.

The most advanced and time-consuming color grading includes basic and art edits, as well as retouching . Retouching is an extremely meticulous work on the frame to bring the picture to the ideal. It includes cleaning the background from unnecessary elements, and eliminating imperfections with large portrait plans, and adding all kinds of artistic effects (overlays, glare, video styling). The result is more beautiful than in real life.

In the studio of the full cycle LANET PRODUCTION, you can order color correction and grading services both separately and in combination with other stages of video production. Our technical base includes all the necessary tools for working with color in any format: from the traditional standard of 10-bit DPX to 16-bit Open EXR, and our experts will always suggest a color solution for your videos, whether bright, colorful music video or documentary.

We will find the best creative solution for your video, thanks to which it will play with new colors. If you are interested in video color correction in Kyiv or other cities — contact us, we will be happy to work on your project and will please you with the result.