HC5 color problem

[smen00 0]

The faces on people are too red. Are there any settings in the camera to fix it? And can you fix it in Premiere Pro?
I have attached a picture showing the problem.

/Simon

[newshooter12 0]

it looks like the reds are just a bit over saturated. you may be able to adjust it down with a color effect in an editing program. not sure about that particular camera, but most pro-sumer/consumer video cameras tend to push the color a bit past natural.

matt

[The111 1]

From here:

At 3000 lux, the richness of the color was the most obvious characteristic. Sony does their market research, and rarely fails to give the public what they want. Saturated, rather than accurate, colors are preferred by the average camcorder owner, and the HC7 delivers. Our color chip chart looked like a box of crayons. Every color popped with remarkable crispness. The HDR-HC7 offers a Color +/- control, which affects saturation. Turning it up produced a horrid palette, reminiscent of some of Sony’s DVD camcorders from years past. But rolling the saturation down a little did improve the picture, especially if you find the HC7’s natural tendencies too strong.

The picture was also sharp, which is something that you can’t fake. Even against the HD camcorders we’ve seen so far, the HC7 looked very good. There are controls included for increasing and decreasing the sharpening, but we found that a sharpness bump only served to hurt the overall image quality, increasing the amount of haloing along high contrast borders and boosting the general levels of noise.

By comparison, the HDR-HC3 (Review, Specs, $969.99), last year’s only consumer HDV from Sony, offered a sharp picture without quite so much saturation. We did, however, remark in that review last year that the saturation was higher than the previous year’s HDR-HC1 (Specs, $2295), which indicates that boosting saturation is a trend. Last year’s HDR-SR1 (Review, Specs, Recent News, $1119.99), the camcorder that recorded AVCHD footage to hard drive, offered a slightly duller color palate and more noise; the HDR-UX1 (Review, Specs, Recent News, $729.95) (the DVD version), even more so.

No detailed review of the HC5 on that site, but I would assume it is close to the HC7 in terms of saturation.

I find it interesting they boosted saturation twice within the same model line (HC1 -> HC3. and HC3 -> HC7). There is a limit to how many times they can do this and get away with it. Now whenever I show my HD footage at the DZ, and people exclaim about how much better the color is, I can at least reply, "it's not all natural."

www.WingsuitPhotos.com

[DSE 5]

Take *everything* you read from camcorderinfo.com with a grain (or spoonful) of salt.

The HC 3/5/7 all have XVYUV (also known as XV color) and offers a greater saturation range all by itself. It's mapped to a Munsell color chart, and offers quite a bit more latitude with no added saturation. This helps.
The red difference I see in the shot suggests a manual white balance that was off, that's all.
VERY easy to fix in Premiere or any other NLE application using the three-wheel corrector. Select the face with the middle wheel to set it to neutral.