{"id":768,"date":"2015-02-25T01:41:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T01:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilovehue.net\/?p=768"},"modified":"2015-02-25T01:45:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T01:45:15","slug":"music-video-sauvons-radio-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovehue.net\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Music video: Sauvons Radio-Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month I got a call from PMT<\/a>, a Montreal post house where I work on two tv series. They were taking part in an project to bring attention on the state of Radio-Canada and the rough times the state broadcaster is going through. To mark the point, about 150 artists gathered in a studio to record and sing a song that symbolize their attachement to the public broadcaster. They asked me if I’d wanted to join the team as colorist.<\/p>\n

The minutes video had 3 types of sources: the musicians, recording the song, set in a warm and friendly studio; the artists sing their parts in front of a green screen; and some “making of” that showed the artists meeting and having fun.<\/p>\n

The biggest hurdle what to graded the footage before it was keyed. Resolve has some workarounds to temporarily key a green screen but, at the time, the director, Ricardo Trogi, wasn’t sure if he wanted to key the artists in front of a logo, a white background or the old orange Radio-Canada logo. So I used the alpha output in\u00a0the node window to do a basic key over\u00a0white and tried to match the skin tones as much as possible.<\/p>\n

Once rendered, we sent the graded clip (with a less that ideal green screen) and a REC709 version of it to Alchemy24<\/a> and they keyed hundreds of shots in a record time. They used REC709 version to pull the key in NUKE and replaced the green by the logo, and the artists by the graded version. They also did a great job removing the green spill without touching the grade.<\/p>\n

Here are a couple shots and how they were graded in Resolve.<\/p>\n

This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p>

<\/div>\n

And here is the final result:
\n