Making a Mess

Hi,

I implemented “Bezier” Curves for the Open Movie Editor Node Compositor today, which enables a whole range of interesting possibilities for color-manipulation. This example shows a simple three way color correction/grading tool.

It works like this: the “Input” node represents the original unaltered image, that is then fed into brightness and saturation controls. Additionally a “Luminance” map is created and fed into the three Curve nodes, that filter the luminance map into dark, bright and middle components. These components are then applied to the brightness/saturation adjusted input image, by an “Alpha Injection” node. And at the end, those three are composited together again through two “Composition” Nodes.

It’s that easy.

This was a peek preview, the Curve Nodes will be in the next Open Movie Editor release, stay tuned.

Have fun,
-Richard

PS.: Read Digital Compositing for Film and Video for more Information about how this stuff works.

2 Responses to “Making a Mess”

1. Fred Says:
   January 3rd, 2008 at 13:44

   Just wanted to let you know that an article on OpenME was printed in the Linux Format Magazine:

   http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=NewArchives&issue=99

2. oracle Says:
   January 3rd, 2008 at 16:17

   That’s cool, Thanks for the link.

   Cheers
   -Richard

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