Quote I have hundreds of underwater videos to make into "movies" (include pics, music, etc.). In iMovie - all I had to do was select WB (white balance) - select a piece of coral or shell in the sand that was white and the whole video was color corrected. Looked beautiful. Same with the pictures - could fix them in iMovie. When I do this in PowerDirector 20 - it looks like crap! Even tried to fix a picture - looks terrible. I can fix the picture the exact same way in PowerPHOTO (via WB) and it looks good. But I need to fix all these videos. Did so much research and PowerDirector was so highly recommended (bought new WINDOWS PC just for editing) - and wasted my money. Anyone know of another QUICK way to correct the color? MANY videos to do. Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Just using WB alone, I always find some compromise is necessary. I normally manually WB the camera every 2-3 meters change of depth, depending on conditions, and so I find that PDR can produce good results from a well balanced clip. CDR can produce better results on WB and, of course, can do more in the way of color grading.

To try and illustrate, I took a clip shot at about 40m in Croatia, where I was unable to manually WB the camera (long story!) I have used my best effort at using WB color picker only in PDR and CDR and, yes, there is a better result in CDR.

As a side note, I have rarely used the WB picker just on a "white" or "black" selection, as I often find some other selection color gives more real-life balance - but that's in the eye of the beholder pehaps?


As shot




PDR20



CDR


So maybe PDR alone cannot correct well enough for you in some situations and you may have to look at other solutions for your required color adjustments.
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Thank you for the reply (and beautiful shot of the octopus)! After posting, I did more research and stumbled into Color Director. You would "think" Color Director would be Included in PowerDirector. I tried with Color Director and the outcome was much better than via PowerDirector. *But still not as good as iMovie, unfortunately. Guess I'll have to purchase ColorDirector (using the trial version right now). Thanks again for replying and sharing your underwater shots and corrections.

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Hi,

Just using WB alone, I always find some compromise is necessary. I normally manually WB the camera every 2-3 meters change of depth, depending on conditions, and so I find that PDR can produce good results from a well balanced clip. CDR can produce better results on WB and, of course, can do more in the way of color grading.

To try and illustrate, I took a clip shot at about 40m in Croatia, where I was unable to manually WB the camera (long story!) I have used my best effort at using WB color picker only in PDR and CDR and, yes, there is a better result in CDR.

As a side note, I have rarely used the WB picker just on a "white" or "black" selection, as I often find some other selection color gives more real-life balance - but that's in the eye of the beholder pehaps?


As shot




PDR20



CDR


So maybe PDR alone cannot correct well enough for you in some situations and you may have to look at other solutions for your required color adjustments.
Adrian