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Why isn't color matching automatic?

Why isn't color matching automatic? - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 2 Matching Foreground to Background

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Why isn't color matching automatic?

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You may be wondering whether color matching is something that computer software could learn to do automatically. And the truth is that it can, but only in very specific cases in which it might be just as simple to match by eye using the methods we've already learned here. I revisited this shot to redo it using SpeedGrade's auto match feature. I've applied the result to the foreground layer. It's just a single dot look file and it uses the apply color let effect to be loaded into After Effects. Notice there's nothing you can adjust here. You can just turn it on, or off. So let's take a look at how this was created in SpeedGrade. to get started, create a new ir dot cp file, that the SpeedGrade file format, and navigate to where the source shots live in this Unix style tree and folder interface, it's a little unfamiliar to adobe users. Next, load the foreground and background shots by clicking the plus key next to each of them. And they go into this timeline just below. Switch to the…

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