Color Correction Madness...

[Alex]

I had been working all day color correcting a movie for a distibutor that is going to DVD. These are archival movies and in this instance all there is to work from is a VHS.

The film was in color, and had an ugly green and yellow cast throughout. I got most of it out, was almost done, and of course, I had to experiment with adding a teeny tiny bit of secondary red color correction.

To my horror, it actually made it look slightly better. Now I should redo the whole movie. [img]mad.gif[/img]

[King Ghidorah]

Hey, you aren't one of those guys who help distributors put out those bargain bin movies, are you? Hey, a job's a job, but I just tried to watch a yucky soft DVD three pack on one DVD and it was horrible. I was pretty angry because it looks like they just used a VHS to make copies from. Is this a horror movie you are doing???

[Alex]

Doesn't sound like what I do. I'm sure if someone came to me with a low budget cruncher movie I would drive them crazy trying to fix all the craap they did wrong in the first place.

The few movies I have done so far don't fit that criteria at all. Did you say 3 movies on one DVD???
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Yeeesh!

Plus, whenever possible, I don't want to give new life to worthless movies, life's too short for that.