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Aesthetic matching of cameras

Aesthetic matching of cameras

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Aesthetic matching of cameras

- On a normal video production, it's very normal to do some scene-to-scene color correction. A lot of times we're cutting together footage from different projects and different times. But on a multicamera production, you're going to drive your editors absolutely nuts if every time they switch angles, they've got to do a lot of color correction. Jim, this comes down to just good on-set management of managing your cameras, right? - It's a technical craft, right. So there's machines and equipment, electronics that all get set to a certain set of parameters that need to be matched from each camera to camera. Normally, you're using instruments and you're trying to be as precise as you can in matching the cameras, but a lot of times, especially if you're starting out, you might not have the expertise or you just might not have the budget or you might not have the measuring tools to calibrate things on a technical level so-- - Even if they do match, technically, I've seen instances where on…

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