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Establishing shot-to-shot consistency

Establishing shot-to-shot consistency - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Color Correction: Creating a Polished Look in Avid Media Composer

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Establishing shot-to-shot consistency

Okay. We've now spent a fair amount of time making sure you have the tools to correct the luma and chroma in your individual shots. You have a lot of resources--both manual and automatic--to get your shots looking their best. Now it's time to make sure the shots work well together. That is, we're establishing shot-to-shot consistency. Let's go ahead and take a look through our sequence and see what's working and what still needs to be adjusted so that everything matches appropriately. Now we've corrected just a couple of shots, and all the rest need to be corrected. So here is our corrected shot here, and this one here. They're looking good, and I think they look good next to one another. I'm going to just go ahead and scrub through this, and then I'm going to pull up the first frame of every shot in the sequence, so that we can take a look at all of the different lighting schemes and colors to see all of the best ways to match them together. All right! So these look good, but as I…

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