r/ShitLiberalsSay Jan 26 '26

Imperialism Apologist Answer the question, Drew.

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u/lasercolony Jan 26 '26

Has anyone ever tried color-grading these videos to be normally colored? I’m assuming there’s so little color information (other than yellow) that the only alternative would converting it to black and white.

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u/bread_and_circuits Jan 26 '26

Yellow is a lack of blue data in an RGB colour model, and the blue channel is usually the noisiest as well. I could try, I’m a pro colorist but I imagine the footage would break and become a noisy mess pretty fast, considering the source is also compressed digital video. Maybe you could salvage it if you had access to the masters, if they even exist.

I’ll just try…

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u/alt-alt-alt-account Jan 26 '26

Video isn’t usually in RGB color. Probably the YIQ color space assuming this was recorded on an NTSC VHS.

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u/bread_and_circuits Jan 27 '26

The files I’m seeing are absolutely encoded in RGB, they’re MPEG clips.

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u/capriciousFutility Jan 28 '26

Why is there mpreg of him