Video Editing - Y/C Delay (Colour shifting)

[cosmichobo]

G'day,

Does anyone know of a FCPX filter (or at this point - any other way) that lets you shift the VHS colour signal?

EG: You can see on the left hand image how the yellow is shifted down/right from where it should be on the titles; right side has it corrected:

In FCP7 I was using "AJW's Y/C Delay" (AJW had a bunch of free filters/etc), and this let you move the colour signal up / down and left / right to realign the colour layer. This was perfect for fixing up multi-generation VHS footage, particularly when TBC correction options had already been bypassed - ie you're working with pre-digitised footage.

Does anyone know if a way to do this in FCPX?

Thanks

cosmic

 

[casperes1996]

Can’t you just use either the built in colour board or the “tint” effect? Or white balance adjustment if you just need to adjust the whitepoint

 

[cosmichobo]

G'day casperes1996,

The issue is with the entire colour layer having drifted away from the b&w layer.

(See image I've just added to my original post.)

The abovementioned filter allowed you to re-align the colour signal, so it would match up with the rest of the image.

Sometimes the drift isn't major, and you wouldn't think it would make much difference, but it really can improve the quality by fixing it up. And when the drift is bad - it makes a huge difference.

 

[casperes1996]

G'day casperes1996,

The issue is with the entire colour layer having drifted away from the b&w layer.

You can kind of see it in this:

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(Not my material)

In the left picture, you can see the yellow that belongs to the titles has drifted down and slightly right of where it should be. (In fact - the entire colour layer has moved; it's just most obvious with the yellow).

The abovementioned filter allowed you to re-align the colour signal, so it would match up with the rest of the image.

Sometimes the drift isn't major, and you wouldn't think it would make much difference, but it really can improve the quality by fixing it up. And when the drift is bad - it makes a huge difference.

Oooooh. I totally misunderstood, haha. I thought we were talking tinting, not chroma misalignment. I've never really had to deal with analogue editing
Unfortunately I don't know anything that can deal with this

 

[cosmichobo]

I get the feeling that the world has moved on....

My first Mac capable of capturing VHS was a Quadra 840av in 1997... though it wasn't really until my eMac in 2004 that proper full quality digitising was possible. And each subsequent Mac I've owned, I've still been able to work out ways to capture VHS, complete with a good quality VCR sitting on my desk for years - and yet I still have a big box of tapes that have never been digitised...

I'm planning on moving away from my MacPro5,1 in the next 1-2years, probably to a M1 Mac Mini (when the 2nd hand price comes down), and I get the feeling that hooking up my handcam to these new machines (via firewire 400) will be tricky...

 

[cosmichobo]

What about non Final Cut options? Anyone?