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Settings to match XH-A1 and HV30 Footage

Posted on 3/8/2008 2:09:00 PM

Matching footage of XH-A1 and HV30 straight out of the camera

I have been shooting using both Canon XH-A1 and HV20 in events. It takes a while for me to learn to match the color tone from footage of these 2 cameras. I think I can manage it pretty good now.

I am using the Matrox RTX2 card that has such feature to match color from two clips by referencing the shadow/highlight/midtone area of two clips. It works very well. I also printed a Black/White/Grey card using photoshop. Then I will shoot a few seconds of that card in the location. In post, I can just match them easiliy. I heard there is a a similar feature in Premiere but I didn't bother to find out.

Recently, I tried using XH-A1 custom preset library downloaded from DVInfo.net. By using Preset #13 in XH-A1 that can closely match with HV20 setting color -1, brightness +1, contrast -1.

Footage from XH-A1 with Preset #13



Footage from HV30 with setting color -1, brightness +1, contrast -1



It's not a 100% match but is pretty close.
 

 

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Posted by Steve on 9/7/2009 2:15:00 PM it would have been nice to show a before and after for the color correction but thanks for your effort in putting this up!

Replied by LA Color Shop There is no "before and after". No extra work was done in post to match the output. So this is all the video straight from the camera.
Posted by Tim Palmer-Benson - Video-Vermont on 11/6/2009 1:17:00 PM How would you do this in Final Cut 6;02 using a plug in like the Magic Bullet Suite or is there a plug in around that will let you do this?
Posted by Timothy Palmer-Benson on 11/6/2009 1:28:00 PM Is this the preset you are using....what is it like for indoors?

PRESET13.CPF "OUTSIDEN" gives the Canon a neutral image outdoors while managing bright whites.

Replied by LA Color Shop Yes, preset #13 is OUTSIDEN. I found out this is the color output from XH-A1 that cloest match with HV30 without any color matching work done in post.
Posted by Hameed on 4/12/2010 8:36:00 PM Hi Takky,

Thanks for sharing this.
Posted by Randy on 7/13/2010 7:29:00 PM Do you recall what your gain was set at on the XHA1 when you did this?

Replied by LA Color Shop Randy, I believe I have the camera in full auto mode and AGC was on too.
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