in today's episode are we gonna be talking about saturation versus color
boost okay so working with something that I've shot who like five years ago
on original black magic 2.5 k and in this video I want to talk about what's
the really difference between saturation and the color boost for those of you who
doesn't know basically saturation increases saturation straight up evenly
across all basically pixels or values in the shot or in the given image color
boost what it does it increases saturation of the least saturated parts
of the image so in theory it should be better to kind of balance the overall
saturation of the shot however here goes the trick and this is why you need to be
very careful about using color boost so here we have the shot from a long time
ago let me really quickly balance it it just something so we can
see real difference okay so something like that so next one we're gonna do a
little bit temperature balancing okay saturation and color boost if I'm going
to increase saturation all the way to a hundred we can see that image look
throughout in general nicely if we're gonna do very same thing with a color
boost look what's gonna happen okay increasing increasing from the first
glance it looks more pleasant to our eyes because it got saturation going
it's more vibrant its more vivid however here's the thing you need to be careful
if we're going to zoom in for example to this tree right over here we can see
that tree over here we don't have any pixels but now with the color boost we
can see that we start getting artifact the very nasty sort of blue and red
chroma and this is the danger of using color boost and I know a lot of people
prefer using color boost because originally it gives image sort of a
nicer vibrant kind of look of the bat however here goes the downside of it
even if we look at our actor skin we can see there's something funky going on
with the pixels let me show you his hair hopefully YouTube compression will allow
you to see this okay we can see how crazy his hair look and we can see that
there is a very nasty dancing chroma noise now if I'm gonna go back to normal
saturation we can see that relatively it's not as bad now granted you probably
gonna say oh it's a nature file it's natively like that okay fair point so
let me go and in a Croma remove any kind of chroma noise as a matter of fact
let's do it like that let me just completely even though not the perfect
way but let's say we reduce noise so there's nothing going on so that's a
clean shot okay again let's do saturation okay all the way we can see
that relatively we don't have too many artifacts even though we kinda can see a
little bit but it's not too much now however if I'm gonna do color boost note
okay just like that we can see how much more artifacts we start introducing in
our image so basically this is very quick video showing the difference
between saturation and the color boost so thanks for watching be sure to
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